Sam Evans: “Each morning, we open the nesting box to find a small egg, wonderfully presented in a nest of hay. Nature at its simplest and most beautiful”Photograph: Sam EvansEd Farrell: “I was preparing a fish supper and started messing about with some fruit and a serving dish to see what the result would look like. The raspberries were served separately.”Photograph: guardian.co.ukHoward Marsh: “The presenting or offering of food can sometimes lead to spectacular results.”Photograph: guardian.co.uk
Anna Henderson: “This young girl at the cherry blossom festival in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan had clearly been posing for pictures all day, and just before I took this she popped a giant gobstopper in her mouth”Photograph: Anna HendersonAmanda Oliver: "I attended a presentation from a local chef at the Royal County of Berkshire Show. He cooked 3 dishes from a £1.50 pig's head in front of an audience who were part horrified, part salivating"Photograph: Amanda OliverBenjamin Brown: "The Bahai Temple in Haifa, Israel. Everything was delicately placed and carefully considered"Photograph: Benjamin BrownBill Reeds: "This army officer, at Tiananmen Square, Beijing, was practising his sword presentation in front of a large mirror and two seemingly critical colleagues"Photograph: Bill ReedsJennie Jewitt-Harris: "A kidney for transplant being presented to the surgeon. It was donated by the recipient's sister to save her brother's life. I was in Ghana with a British transplant team, and this was the first ever transplant to take place there. It was quite a moment"
Photograph: Jennie Jewitt-HarrisKen McKeating: "The presentation of the Peacock is always astounding, as seen here attracting a mate with beautiful tail plumage"Photograph: guardian.co.ukMark Wear: "A perfectly presented pint of (6 Euro!) Italian lager in the evening sun in Pisa, Italy"Photograph: Mark WearNeil Price: "a perfect rainbow of golfers before they tee off - their golf may not have been so aesthetically pleasing"Photograph: guardian.co.ukWendy Pollard: "An anarchic re-presentation of a former Ljubljana army barracks, commandeered by an artists' collective, here blending their bizarre bazaar with an unexpected basketball hoop"Photograph: Wendy Pollard
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