Readers’ pictures of the week - 31 Aug - 6 Sep

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

David Reynolds shot this image from Arthurs Seat of the 31st annual Festival Fireworks Concert

31 August: John Ireland took this photograph of the Lawmonument with the Tay Rail Bridge in the background

2 September: David Malloch sent in this colourful photograph of a peacock butterfly – so named for the four eye spots on the wings – which was taken in Callander

3 September: David Reynolds shot this image from Arthur’s Seat of the 31st annual Festival Fireworks Concert, which brought this year’s Edinburgh International Festival to a close

4 September: Walter Baxter from Galashiels took this photograph of St Abb’s Head Lighthouse in bright but windy conditions

5 September: Bill Clark from Crieff took this picture of straw bales in Strathearn, Perthshire – a typical late-summer harvest scene

6 September: It’s speining time – when the lambs are separated from their mothers – in the Ochils, as photographed by Ian Cullins