Readers’ pictures of the week

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

Sat 8 Feb: Hector Christie took this picture of William Lamb’s Minesweeper and guest on the seafront at Montrose

Sat 9 Feb: The majestic view of Ben Lomond from Duck Bay, as photographed by Bill Kean, is enough to inspire a Highlands haiku

Mon 11 Feb: Mark Gibbons sent in this beautiful image of a barn owl, which he photographed during a recent visit to the Hirsel Estate in Coldstream

Tue 12 Feb: Dr Dennis Connolly took this picture of Dryden Tower – once part of the landscape of the now demolished Dryden house – near Bilston in Midlothian

Wed 13 Feb: Barry McKay took this photograph of a double rainbow over the village of Garve in the Highlands

Thu 14 Feb: Wildlife photographer Marie-France Grenouillet took this picture of a puffin landing on Lunga