Weekend readers' pictures: Rebirth

Chrissie Barrow : “I was out with the camera looking for photos to depict solitude. These pussy willows, rebirth of the tree, looked so beautiful in the early spring sunshine, I just had to take a photograph of them" Photograph: Chrissie Barrow Claire Wallerstein : “Walking with my husband on a gloomy, misty day, I was struck by the image of him through this mystical-looking tunnel of light. It was like he was on his way into another dimension” Photograph: Claire Wallerstein Sam Atherton : “Early last spring, walking through Manchester’s Southern Cemetery, I spotted this crocus emerging from the dead winter leaves. I had very nearly crushed it under my foot" Photograph: Sam Atherton Katherine Harkin : “I stumbled across a shop in Berlin devoted to ‘modular synthesiser’ components; the centrepiece was this synth built into the gutted housing of an upright piano” Photograph: Katherine Harkin Judith Barlow : "Signs of life returning in Spring; Hart's tongue fern unfurls" Photograph: Judith Barlow Ernest Howard : "Among the dead brown rotting remains of the old rhubarb, a green shoot emerges to herald the new years crop" Photograph: Ernest Howard John Brown : "Seasonal rebirth" Photograph: John Brown Ruby Markham : "While feeding the ducks at the nearby lake, I saw a dragonfly laying its eggs and was fascinated by the reflection of the creature in the water" Photograph: Ruby Markham Mike Scott : "Seeing Buddha emerging from the thawing snow in our garden represented the promise of spring" Photograph: Mike Scott Caitlin Breeze : "Constantly shifting and reshaping, the patterns in the sand remain for a matter of hours before they are reborn in a completely different form" Photograph: Caitlin Breeze Mark Stoter : "An old man washing in the Ganges river at Varanasi, one of the oldest cities on earth, and one of the holiest in Hinduism. Hindus believe that washing in the Ganges ensures rebirth from their sins and that dying in Varanasi releases the soul from endless reincarnation" Photograph: Mark Stoter