Remote religion and poisoned arrows – readers' best photographs
'Smoking Mountain in all its glory.' Photograph: Guilheme Perodeau
'We hiked up to the Rockpile to view the sun rising over the Valley of the Ten Peaks. Words fail to capture the peace, calm and tranquility of the perfect reflection. It was a soul-soothing and truly spiritual experience.' Photograph: Saradha Iyer
'We were snorkelling in Marsa Mubarak when this dugong joined us.' Photograph: Inge Kofler
'Walking the sand dunes.' Photograph: Joel Bosque
'A once-common but now rare growling grass frog. I first heard its astonishing growl and then spotted it in grassy waters, its throat ballooning out. Frogdom's Pavarotti of the wetlands.' Photograph: Michael Hamel-Green
'I woke up at 2am by coincidence when I saw this beautiful sunrise. I knew I had to get up and take the photo. So here it is.' Photograph: Christian Jakubaszek
'This was on a day trip from Dublin. The person in the photo was spending a lot of time on his selfie so I shot a couple of frames with the dark sky behind, but when he stood up on to the bench seat, I knew I had a good frame. I took a series of photos of tourists in famous places in front of iconic sites, which wasn't hard to do, and called it Bloody Tourists, of which I was surely one.' Photograph: Colin McLellan
'A young boy tentatively reaches out to pet one of the horses at the annual horse show, Oeste Lusitano.' Photograph: Christy Le Lait
'A remote village church.' Photograph: Bob Blackburn
'Eastvale Place is an arts space and features regularly changing wall art on the surrounding buildings. As I was photographing this piece of a woman wearing sunglasses, I noticed that the sun, on a dazzlingly bright day, was directly overhead. Crouching down to a low angle, I was able to get the flare from the sun into the picture.' Photograph: Stuart Neville
'A selection of traditional coffee pots or cezve , with various vibrant colours catching the afternoon sun.' Photograph: Joseph Buckley
'I photographed this lion on the hunt while visiting the reserve last November.' Photograph: Sarah Puhr
'Organ pipes in Lovely Lane United Methodist Church seem to reach to the painted sky, which commemorates the heavens on the day the church was dedicated in 1884.' Photograph: Linda Rabben
'Last summer we visited the town of Wells on our holiday trip through the UK. We particularly liked Vicars Close, which is reportedly the oldest residential street in Europe.' Photograph: Hans J Förster
'During my stay with the Mentawai tribe, I had the opportunity to learn different aspects of their lifestyle. One of the most interesting was this early-morning moment when the elders started poisoning the arrow tips with a potion made out of jungle herbs before going hunting. After getting the juice out of three different leaves, they heat it and the smear the liquid on the arrow tips. The poison content is enough to kill animals like pigs, squirrels, monkeys and deer.'
Photograph: Pramod Kanakath
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