Tim Day took this picture while flying over Tantallon Castle near North Berwick in a Bucker Jungmann biplane

HMS QUEEN Elizabeth, the first of the Royal Navy’s new fleet of aircraft carriers is taking shape in the Babcock Marine Dockyard at Rosyth, with the flightdeck and superstructure clearly visible from this aerial shot.

Douglas Hood’s photograph of Liathach and Beinn Eighe was taken from a rowing boat in the middle of Loch Clair

FOUR amateur photographers could see their work travel across the globe this year, after winning a photography competition run by Atholl Estates.

Sylvia Beaumont took this photograph of the statute commemorating North Berwick golfer Ben Sayers, who watches over the west links golf course in the town

Eric Tomlinson’s photograph of a walker and dog captures the tranquility of the Threipmuir Reservoir on the Pentland Hills

Tom Steven took this photograph of Jasper, a hard working Scottish farm cat, who catches a lot of mice, rats and rabbits

A SELECTION of pictures submitted by our readers in the past week to The Scotsman picture desk.

Scotsman reader Douglas Fiddes sent in this photograph of the Cleared Coast on Skye

THIS beautiful photograph of the old pier near the Royal Yacht Britannia in Leith, with Western Harbour on the horizon, was taken by Rod Hanchard-Goodwin.

Ancient and modern Kirkaldy share the same frame in Sandy Cook’s photograph: Ravenscraig Castle, built in the 1460s, and a residential block, constructed in the 1960s

Jonathan Nisbet, of North Berwick, describes himself as a keen amateur photographer, however his image looking out to the Bass Rock is nothing less than professional

Green railings form a perfect frame for News reader Tor Sodergren’s picture of a lone boat sailing in the Forth

Reader David Reynolds from Edinburgh took this photograph in Glenmore Forest Park in the Cairngorms at Aviemore, capturing the rush and tumble of a Highland river

Haddo House – ancestral home of the Gordons, earls and marquesses of Aberdeen, and owned since 1979 by the National Trust for Scotland – was photographed by Marion McDonald

A selection of pictures from our readers submitted to The Scotsman picture desk.

This unusual picture of Princes Street Gardens, with Edinburgh Castle on the horizon, was taken through the top portals of the Scott Monument by Walter McGillivray

Roger Bell took this photograph of people who probably weren’t wishing they were in the office instead of fishing in Beecraigs Loch in West Lothian

Spring sunshine brightens the last snow of winter on the hills around Loch Callater near Braemar, as photographed by Rosemary Campbell

On a recent trip to Mull, Neil Sinclair from Edinburgh photographed several colourful milestones, including this bright yellow one