23-04-2025
Space craft and heavenly respite – readers' best photographs
'I spent two hours waiting for the sun to be in the best place in an amazing and unique landscape.' Photograph: Alan Wright
'On the border of Myanmar, the Konyak Naga tribe celebrates the coming of spring and their warrior culture as part of the annual Aoling Festival.' Photograph: Max Vere-Hodge
'Every year hundreds of people compete in a week-long regatta called Sail Port Stephens. These were some of the yachts on a misty, rainy day.' Photograph: Ian Sanderson
'The Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory. One of the four Veritas gamma-ray telescopes, with the plume of a SpaceX rocket launch from Vandenberg in the background.' Photograph: Jamie Holder
'Problems with squirrels at your bird feeder? This is a javelina, or collared peccary, that was proving to be a bit of a nuisance at the feeders at Bentsen-Rio grande state park. I was warned about it and, sure enough, it showed up. I kept my distance.' Photograph: Gillian Henry
'A rainbow over Bad Godesberg as the first heatwave of the year broke. Petersberg on the left, Drachenfels on the right: two of the peaks in the Siebengebirge (Seven Mountains). Photograph: Ewan Dow
'Seeking a moment's refuge from shoppers and tourists, I stepped into St Giles in the Fields to find just one other person savouring the sanctuary of this beautiful old church.' Photograph: Ton Fijten
'The small joys of an early morning dog walk in York Community Woodland.' Photograph: Keith Emerick
'Mounted police letting their horses have a well-earned drink at the Diana fountain in Green Park.' Photograph: Nigel Knowlman
'How's this for an Easter bonnet?' Photograph: Lydia Morris
'The London Fire Spinners gather monthly on the river banks in central London to practise their art in front of a fantastic backdrop.' Photograph: Isabelle Desgranges
'Ominous storm clouds in Southport.' Photograph: John Keilman
'Spotted in Volcanoes National Park.' Photograph: Jason Stewart
Photograph: Jeremy Johns
'Light that sparkles at Hereford town hall.'
Photograph: Margaret Beare
