Weekend readers' pictures: Tear

Venieta Brace: "Harry learning a difficult lesson in life: sometimes your twin brother gets to have milk first" Photograph: Venieta Brace

Alev Adil: "Rip it up and start again: a torn book cover in the Freud Museum in Vienna" Photograph: Alev Adil

Paul Maddern: "Taken in the Community Hall in Strangford, Co Down, where basketball doesn't seem to be a priority" Photograph: Paul Maddern

Ellen Lavender: "The vapour trail left by this plane opened up a tear in the sky, and reminded me of the subtle knife from the Philip Pullman trilogy tearing its way into other worlds" Photograph: Ellen Lavender

Richard Bown: "This was taken in Lisbon, where a building was being renovated and was covered with a sheet of material. From where I was walking a small tear in the sheet was precisely in front of a colourful lampshade - the only colour on a drab facade" Photograph: Richard Bown

Kirsten Foster: "I thought this dog looked so sad, with his untouched chewy bone, either he or I was about to burst into tears" Photograph: Kirsten Foster

Tim Brindley: "The Wedge, Tokyo: not an earthquake victim, but a building torn apart by its architect" Photograph: Tim Brindley

Richard Fitt: "I took this photo of my girlfriend throwing a Frisbee and only noticed the plane tearing a slit in the sky when I looked at it on the computer" Photograph: Richard Fitt

Ann Mulelly: "The elephant very skilfully used his trunk to tear the grass out of the ground, then he tore the green parts off (by stepping on it and tearing with his trunk) and was left with the yummy roots" Photograph: Ann Mulelly

Paul Watson: "Tears after a teatime tiff with her sister. She was smiling for the next shot" Photograph: Paul Watson