Weekend readers' best photographs: parallel

'I love the contrast between the shingle and the deckchairs at Beer in Cornwall' [footnote added on 26 April: Beer is in Devon, not Cornwall.]
Photograph: Nick Jones

'Casa di Risparmio means ‘house of savings’ in Italian. But ‘Risparmio di Casa’ (‘saving house’) is the order of the day in L’Aquila, Italy'
Photograph: Erich Kesse

'Striped marble of the piazza in front of the Basilica of St Francis in Assisi' Photograph: Tim Brown

'Pakistan attack in parallel - Germany vs Pakistan 2012 Olympics men's hockey'
Photograph: Peter Wardbooth

These two were having an intense conversation one night in the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern in London. Their long shadows run parallel to each other as they are silhouetted by the bright light behind. Photograph: Rupert Vandervell

'I was worried the dog had caught its paw in the rails of this tram in Lisbon....'
Photograph: Jie Ding

'Looking up from my regular walk a plane intersects the wires like a grace note'
Photograph: Trevor Waine

'The work of a particularly neat farmer on the South Downs highlighted by late afternoon April sunshine'
Photograph: Finn Hopson