Around Scotland in five pictures

Mike Dunn was in the right place at the right time to capture a lance breaking on impact during this joust at the Bruce Festival in Pittencreiff Park, Dunfermline

A SELECTION of rather combative photographs taken from across the country by our readers, including some jousting at Pittencreiff Park and fighting gulls on Incholm Island

• Tunnel vision: Ray Clark captured this horse and rider during a pause from the competition at the Hopetoun Horse Trials last month

• Mike Dunn was in the right place at the right time to capture a lance breaking on impact during this joust at the Bruce Festival in Pittencreiff Park, Dunfermline

• As Ian R W McCracken cycled past Boarhills Church between Crail and St Andrews the clear blue skies took on a darker hue, making for a more dramatic photograph

• Derek Robertson’s photograph of the entrance to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh appears to be bathed in gold, thanks to the unusual summer light

• A young gull watches from the sidelines as a couple of adults scrap on Incholm Island, as photographed by Barbara Greer from Earlston