Child’s play and a splash landing – readers’ best photos

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Main image: Southwold, UK A new Guardian reader (18 months old) copying Grandpa! Checking the brainteaser answers? Photograph: Ros and John Hedges

  • Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

    ‘Sleeping on the job in Osh bazaar. The sacks contain cheese.’
    Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan ‘Sleeping on the job in Osh bazaar. The sacks contain cheese.’

  • Norfolk, UK

    ‘I nearly didn’t get up for dawn (3am start) as the sunrise looked bland, but then soon after sunrise clouds appeared and provided a spectacular sunrise in Cromer. The pile of rocks are the new sea defences going in.’
    Norfolk, UK ‘I nearly didn’t get up for dawn (3am start) as the sunrise looked bland, but then soon after sunrise clouds appeared and provided a spectacular sunrise in Cromer. The pile of rocks are the new sea defences going in.’

  • Derry, UK

    ‘American street artist Jeks working on his mural of Amelia Earhart.’
    Derry, UK ‘American street artist Jeks working on his mural of Amelia Earhart.’

  • Antalya, Turkey

    ‘A boat carrying tourists leaves the Roman harbour against a backdrop of the Western Taurus Mountains.’
    Antalya, Turkey ‘A boat carrying tourists leaves the Roman harbour against a backdrop of the western Taurus Mountains.’

  • Maryland, US

    ‘It was sunset on Smith Island, in the Chesapeake Bay. I crouched down to capture the brown pelicans as they rested on a sandbar.’
    Maryland, US ‘‘It was sunset on Smith Island, in the Chesapeake Bay. I crouched down to capture the brown pelicans as they rested on a sandbar.’

  • Glasgow, UK

    ‘An interesting wall decoration outside a sports bar in Battlefield, which is made out of bits of snooker tables.’
    Glasgow, UK ‘An interesting wall decoration outside a sports bar in Battlefield, which is made out of bits of snooker tables.’

  • Wales, UK

    ‘A pony watches us in the opening of Conwy Valley.’
    Wales, UK ‘A pony watches us in the opening of Conwy Valley.’

  • Southwold, UK

    ‘A new Guardian reader (18 months old) copying Grandpa. Checking the brainteaser answers, perhaps?’
    Southwold, UK ‘A new Guardian reader (18 months old) copying Grandpa. Checking the brainteaser answers, perhaps?’

  • Suffolk, UK

    ‘Finally the sun shone on the Aldeburgh festival.’
    Suffolk, UK ‘Finally the sun shone on the Aldeburgh festival.’

  • Strasbourg, France

    ‘A visit from a curious peregrine falcon. I’d been watching it perched on the cathedral over 400 metres away. It popped by the flat later as I was lying on the terrace trying to take pictures of swifts.’
    Strasbourg, France ‘A visit from a curious peregrine falcon. I’d been watching it perched on the cathedral over 400 metres away. It popped by the flat later as I was lying on the terrace trying to take pictures of swifts.’

  • Devon, UK

    ‘A beaver in the River Otter returning to its lodge early in the morning with a long branch of willow. Rewilding in action.’
    Devon, UK ‘A beaver in the River Otter returning to its lodge early in the morning with a long branch of willow. Rewilding in action.’

  • Norfolk, UK

    ‘I got the tide times wrong for a fieldtrip to Cromer. I don’t know who was more shocked – me or this spectacular wave. The students were delighted as they got to spend an hour in the arcade.’
    Norfolk, UK ‘I got the tide times wrong for a fieldtrip to Cromer. I don’t know who was more shocked – me or this spectacular wave. The students were delighted as they got to spend an hour in the arcade.’

  • Devon, UK

    ‘Fast-flying sand martins are difficult to catch in flight, so I focused on these three demanding chicks and waited for an overworked parent to fly in with breakfast. Photo taken in Seaton Wetlands.’
    Devon, UK ‘Fast-flying sand martins are difficult to catch in flight, so I focused on these three demanding chicks and waited for an overworked parent to fly in with breakfast. Photo taken in Seaton wetlands.’

  • Lord Howe Island, Australia

    ‘The fortnightly supply ship, Island Trader, out of Port Macquarie, anchored in the lagoon under Mounts Lidgbird and Bower.’
    Lord Howe Island, Australia ‘The fortnightly supply ship, Island Trader, out of Port Macquarie, anchored in the lagoon under Mounts Lidgbird and Bower.’

  • London, UK

    ‘An interesting top-down view in Kew Gardens.’
    London, UK ‘An interesting top-down view in Kew Gardens.’
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