Living colour
‘A man in the middle of the crowd captures an image of the vibrant streets of Barsana, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, during the Holi festival.’
Photograph: Prakhar Sharma
Bear witness
‘A salmon for your thoughts.’ Photograph taken in Ruhtinansalmi, Finland, in July 2022.
Photograph: Alessandro Violini
Streaky sunrise
St Mary’s lighthouse, North Tyneside.
Photograph: Keith Fenwick
Tread carefully
‘This photo was taken on 29 May this year between the Ell Meadow and Pagefield locks on the Leeds and Liverpool canal. It caused me to do a double-take to work out what I was seeing. As it may you.’
Photograph: Mike Pearce
Leading roll
‘The National Carpet Museum in Baku, Azerbaijan. The main purpose of the museum’s creation was to store, research and demonstrate unique examples of the art of carpet-weaving, part of Azerbaijan’s national heritage.’
Photograph: Yasser Alaa Mobarak
Sun worshippers
‘Male Steller sea lions bonding in the afternoon sun at the Plumper Islands, Canada. They were named after the 18th-century German naturalist Georg Steller, and there has been a recent decline in the North Pacific population, especially in Alaska.’
Photograph: Roy Preshaw
Out with the arcs
‘I went for an early swim in Ullswater at one of my favourite spots, Glencoyne, in August. Afterwards, I looked behind the car park and could see a rainbow, I dashed to get the camera and caught this rainbow with the start of a secondary rainbow and the light on the fells. The photo is two shots stitched together in Lightroom.’
Photograph: David Eberlin
Cold cobweb
‘A beautiful frosty morning on a farm in Aberdeenshire.’
Photograph: John Main
Island in the rain
‘As a photographer, I had longed to visit New York City, and my daughter and I spent five days there at the beginning of May. I took this photo on my phone in the rain from the back of the East River ferry from Manhattan Island.’
Photograph: Colin Page
Message in a bottle top
‘Plastic, plastic everywhere – a cargo ship seen through the remains of a plastic bottle top.’
Photograph: Jimmy Cunningham
Up in the air
‘Two footballers practising their tricks in a city centre. I like how the main guy is in focus and the other is just off the ground.’
Photograph: Michael Orr
Frozen light
‘A sun dog – an atmospheric optical phenomenon caused by the refraction of sunlight by ice crystals – seen just south of Regina in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan in January 2022, on a cold -40C day. No adjustments have been made to the photo.’
Photograph: Blaine Landry
Safety first
‘Stone watchtowers at Omalo, in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. They were built from the 14th century to protect mountain villagers from robbers and invaders. Each house seems to have had one, which doesn’t show a great deal of neighbourly trust.’
Photograph: Kim Gordon-Bates
Fungus focus
‘Our walk along the Sandstone Ridge from Frodsham, Cheshire, gave splendid views over the Mersey estuary, but this intimate little scene, a gatepost garden, caught the eye.’
Photograph: Charlie Leventon
Early sign
‘While staying in the Lake District, I took this photograph at Little Langdale, of the mist resting in the valley, which was illuminated in the morning sun.’
Photograph: Owen Leadbetter
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