Weekend readers' pictures: Inspiration

Emma Tarrant: “London after dark ­always inspires me. The Thames on a lovely autumn evening – the sky was beautiful, the moon was full, and I captured the light of a police boat going past” Photograph: Emma Tarrant

Mike Waldron: “On a beautiful ­afternoon at Sidmouth, the tide was out ­unusually far. The way Wolfie was taken by the moment and seemed to fly was inspirational” Photograph: Mike Waldron

Brian Mitchell: “We drove to Doi ­Inthanon, Thailand’s highest mountain, only to find ourselves ­fogbound, cold and wet. What an ­inspiration it was to meet this group of monks toiling up the path to the shrine at the summit, cheerful despite the weather” Photograph: Brian Mitchell

Paul Blackler: “As a VSO volunteer, I was inspired by this Gambian family ­teaching the mother, with determination and humour, to ride a motorbike to get her to work at an SOS Children’s orphanage” Photograph: Paul Blackler

Adam Akins: "Mundane city areas can spring to life and mesmerize with the help of a downpour" Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Linda Fuller: "The Flaming Lips at The Troxy earlier this month. Their spectacle of music, lights and colour inspired feelings of joy and happiness" Photograph: Linda Fuller

Miltos Dikaros: "Inspiration comes easy at an early age, even at a youth club of an estate in Hackney" Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Richard Bown: "Waves pounding on a rocky coast, spray in the air, the smell of the sea and the feel of sand underfoot: surely a scene to inspire any young mind. Taken on the Atlantic coast of Portugal. (Did a young Drake, Columbus or Magellan once look out on such a scene?)" Photograph: Richard Bown

Alan Stopher: "Great landscape painters often portrayed stunning skies. Perhaps they, like I, were inspired by clouds such as this one seen at sunset in Andalucia this October" Photograph: Alan Stopher