Celebrity photographer Rankin has snapped the most attractive and famous people in the world: Kate Moss, Scarlett Johansson, Daniel Craig and George Clooney are just some of the beautiful people he has immortalised in their prime.

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

I MEET the artist Hayley Tompkins in a Glasgow coffee shop during a brief sunny interlude in a week of rain.

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

A BLOCKBUSTER celebration of the visual arts – the biggest ever in Scotland – will be staged in more than 50 venues across the country to coincide with the staging of the Commonwealth Games next year.

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

SEXISM lets down the new Star Trek movie according to trekkie Andrea Mullaney, while David Pollock previews a Cuillins psychogeography project.

WE aren’t too familiar with early American painting, and the tradition of touring huge canvases has died out, but this collection brings both together, showing how the emerging nation was learning to describe and define itself

WELCOME TO our monthly dip into the EdinburghSketcher’s WhereArtI? quiz. Can you name the Edinburgh location sketched above?

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

The most exciting entertainment, events and activities in Scotland this week, including comedy from Rob Rouse, poetry from John Cooper Clarke, and a Lana Del Rey gig in Glasgow.

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

RORY McEwen caused an international hullabaloo in the worlds of art and music. Now the Scot’s creative talents are recognised in exhibitions and a book that celebrate the legacy of this Renaissance man.

FOR most people October is a month. For art world types it’s a secular bible. October, founded in New York in 1976, is the journal that, depending on your point of view, is the voice of radical critique or the delusional product of an inward-looking clique. Unbelievers have even named a syndrome after it: Octoberism.