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This week thousands of Hong Kong citizens were protesting across the city, as they stepped up their calls for democracy. We asked you for your photos, videos and experiences from Hong Kong and received a lot of interesting images and videos from the protests. Joseph Koszary shared this image of the crowd at Admiralty on Friday evening.
The American road trip has been a cultural phenomenon for decades, and Culture asked you for your own photos and videos of your own experiences travelling across the United States. Blifil48 shared this timeless snap of the ghost town Calico from a road trip in the late sixties.
Ghost Town, 1968
Driving from Los Angeles to Las Vegas in November 1968, my girlfriend and I took a side road into the Mojave Desert to see the ghost town of Calico, California.It was much less developed and had many fewer visitors than now but it had a great -- and appropriate -- air of decrepitude about it.
The semi final of The Great British Bake Off this week was the perfect excuse for us to create another wonderful gallery of your extravagant cake designs. You can still submit your outrageous cake designs to our GuardianWitness assignment.
Plenty of mass-produced, supposedly “boring” objects make up our cities, but Cities encouraged you to share your photos of the best ‘boring’ city objects. BrigadierCrispbread found the beauty in the mundane with this photo of an East Berlin sweet machine.
East Side Sweet
Berlin's sweet machines seem from another era - you can find them all over the City and I guess people must use them as someone keeps filling them up. Personally, I think they're better to look at...
Staying with Berlin, 9 November 2014 will mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. We’re asking for photos and memories of when the wall was up and how it was living in a divided city. Helena Kyriakides experienced the wall coming down while studying in Berlin, and shared this insightful photo.
Me inside the wall after it came down in front of the Brandenburg gate
I was in Munich at the University doing an Erasmus exchange and just happened to be visiting friends in Berlin when the wall came down. As it was all so sudden, I didn't have a camera with me, so the day after I took a couple of photos, one with me inside, looking very 1980s!
This month the world’s most prestigious wildlife photography competition, the Wildlife Photographer of the Year, is turning 50. For that reason Culture has dedicated this month’s Share your art project to animals. sueupton shared this eye catching acrylic painting of a friend and her dog.
Sunrise for Sia
Acrylic on canvas 30" x 40"
a painting of my friend Sia and her dog looking out at the dock
sue upton: www.startstudio.ca
With the start of October this week, we included your best Wildlife photos from the last month in our September gallery. You can share photos of the wildlife you find on your doorstep this month in our October wildlife assignment which is up and running. We also created a lovely weather gallery rounding up our readers’ most striking September weather photos. You can submit your October weather pictures to our latest Weather view assignment.
With 28 congregations around the world the Sunday Assembly is looking to branch out further with a global launch on Sunday 28 September, and we want to hear your stories and experiences of the services. Gillian Claus shared this image of volunteers from the Sunday Assembly in Silicon Valley.
Volunteers from Sunday Assembly work farm for low income families
A group of volunteers from Sunday Assembly Silicon Valley work at on a farm which grows fresh produce to deliver low income families.
With October deadlines looming for PhD students, Higher Education Network asked anyone currently studying for their PhD to illustrate what a day in their life is like. Sarah T shared this terrific insight into her own rather busy life, and showing some very impressive multi tasking skills in the process.
Baby vs PhD
I started my PhD FT when my oldest was 6 months old, since then I have had a second child. This is me on maternity leave with my second (maybe 4 months old) while I submitted a conference abstract and entertained her by dangling a toy off my foot.
As Japan celebrates the 50th birthday of its Shinkansen network, Cities asked you to share your photos and memories of Japan’s famous bullet trains. ageofdelusion shared this striking image of the cleaners waiting for an incoming train.
The 'Angels'
A train cleaning team waiting to swoop on an incoming train
We’re now running a regular weekly photography assignment in the Observer New Review and the first theme this week was ‘beginnings.’ Kevin Godinho shared this terrific photo of a new batch of Green turtles finding their feet in East Java.
Green turtles race to the ocean
A new batch of green turtles race to the ocean in East Java
This week’s Readers’ assignment has been on empty places of worship around the world. You have shared images of redundant churches from all over the world, and LuisBusta submitted this church from the south of Chile.
Vilupulli, Chiloé, Chile
The churches of the Chiloé archipelago in the remote south of Chile have a unique architecture.
National Poetry Day was celebrated this week and Books asked you to recite poems that you knew by heart. The best were collected in this impressive video gallery.
The Ryder Cup has been and gone, but you are still sharing some terrific photos of your favourite golf courses around the world. Masham2002 showed us this great view from the 17th Tee at Loch Lomond.
Loch Lomond
The view from the 17th Tee at Loch Lomond ... September 2014
This weekend you may want to join in:
Yom Kippur: share your experiences
Eid al-Adha: share your photos, videos and stories
World Teacher Day: share your stories of what your teachers taught you
What do Grand parents mean to you?
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