Your pictures on the theme of 'the beauty of trees'

We asked our readers to send in their best pictures on the theme "the beauty of trees". Here are some of the pictures we received from around the world.

Lucy Coughlan: "I went out early to capture the sunrise and the recent snow. The trees looked absolutely beautiful being backlit by the sun. I decided to use my lensball to add a different perspective to my photo."

Eva Namik: "Puddles are without great beauty but they can reflect the beauty of trees. A fresh and rainy walk on a Sunday with my partner."

Kathy Williams: "Lanterns decorate the trees to celebrate Lunar New Year in Seoul, South Korea."

Nick V Briggs: "This beautiful-shaped tree was on the beach where we were staying on the Cook Islands. So simple, so memorable."

Conor Donnelly: "In Irish folklore a lone hawthorn tree or 'fairy tree' is often associated with mystical powers."

Paul Granahan: "This photo, taken in Hertfordshire, is a study of an oak tree branch showing the distinctive leaf shape and the remains of the flowers which will be replaced with acorns, the fruit of the oak tree containing a single seed."

Thierry Meyrat: "When walking in the southern coast of Tasmania in a preserved forest, these gigantic trees showed how delicate and harmonious is their canopy."

Jenny Downing: "There's a row of majestic plane trees near where we used to live, prized by the townspeople for the shade they provide during the heat of the summer. I love their wonderfully tactile trunks, smooth, wrinkled and scaly and painted in camouflage colours."

Charlie Scott: "A sunny morning lockdown walk in Devon after a lot of rain."

Peter Kitanov: "An old tree in winter at the Osogovo Mountain near Kyustendil, Bulgaria."

Lucy Laussen: "Taken during a white-out skiing day in Japan on Hakuba 47 in 2019. Sitting above the trees you could only see a few metres in front of you, the dense white creating a hauntingly beautiful landscape."

Natalie Yarrow: "I was wandering through Mile End Park and was struck by these eye-like markings on some of the tree trunks. A completely natural repeating pattern all over the bark, branches were growing from the middle of each 'eye' and, where they had snapped off, a 'pupil' had been revealed. Each 'eye' was beautifully defined, with its own unique expression, almost as if drawn by a cartoonist. Lockdown is making me notice beauty in the smallest details, which I would have been too busy to appreciate before."

Howard Why: "Trees are beautiful within as well as without as seen in this log pile in Charante, France."

Doug Carter: "Beautiful tree colours along the St Lawrence river in Canada."

Keith Bossard: "American Oak, taken during 2013 in Oatlands Park, Surrey."

Hannah Reynolds: "I spotted these beautiful twisted tree roots in Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Florida in 2019, back in the days of unrestricted travel."

Balasanu Ioan: "Sometimes it is best to see the how the world is connected, from the roots to the sky with the trees."

The next theme is "I made this" and the deadline for entries is 9 March 2021.

The pictures will be published later that week and you will be able to find them, along with other galleries, on the In Pictures section of the website.

You can upload your entries on this page or email them to [e-mail].

Terms and conditions apply.

Further details and themes are at: We set the theme, you take the pictures.

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