Weekend readers' pictures: Touch

Feldore McHugh: “My father, who has Alzheimer’s disease, holding a buttercup. He can no longer ­communicate, but he held this flower so ­delicately, and looked so intently at it, I could sense that he had been touched by its beauty” Photograph: Feldore McHugh

Andy Carlisle: “A child reaches out to touch a ­suspended window at the de Young ­museum in San ­Francisco” Photograph: Andy Carlisle

Anthony Jarrett: “A Sunday morning ­encounter with a pit pony in South Wales” Photograph: Anthony Jarrett

Dean Goodall: “It is impossible to park in Paris without a touch or two” Photograph: Dean Goodall

Garry Corbett "Saxophonist Andy Hamilton's hands. He was being interviewed at the time for Radio 3 at Symphony Hall in Birmingham. I noticed his hand gestures which accompanied every word and waited for a pause in their movement" Photograph: Garry Corbett

Gabe Mythen: "My son, Harry, reaching out to touch his shadow. I love the other-wordly quality of the shadow set by the sunlight" Photograph: Gabe Mythen

Juliette S Auger: "While taking pictures of a gorilla deep in thought at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park, a young gorilla came over and touched her mother on the back" Photograph: Juliette S Auger

Matt Philpott: "For the first few weeks of our premature son's life we were only allowed to touch him for a couple of minutes each day. He's now a healthy and very cuddly four-year-old" Photograph: Matt Philpott

Gillian Lloyd: "We heard a lot of noise outside the house being made by a couple of crows. We went to have a look and noticed our cat, Millie, 'stroking' the crows' young offspring which had landed in one of our flowerpots" Photograph: Gillian Lloyd

Coleen Pope: "Knoll Park in Kent has these beautiful tame deer which were quite happy for us to witness their affection for each other up close" Photograph: Coleen Pope