Your photos of the week

"Martin's Beach, a crescent-shaped cove on the San Mateo coast in California, has recently been made accessible to the public after court battles to keep the beach private have been settled," writes Your Shot photographer Karen Baas. "After finding the composition, it was just a matter of time before the winter sky put on its show. Just a little bit of patience and timing was required to capture the lines of the retreating sea."

"My daughter is happiest when she is exploring in wide open spaces, and we have plenty of favourite places to explore in North Dakota," writes Your Shot photographer Lyra Lee. "This was taken one warm winter afternoon on a ridge at a nearby golf course. We had just explored an arboretum adjacent to the golf course and my daughter made her way up this ridge proudly carrying a cattail stalk. A small private plane flew over, and she looked up at just the right moment."

Your Shot photographer Sonja Stich made this photograph while observing the juxtaposition of her son's green jacket with the palm tree on their way back from the beach where her children play soccer.

Your Shot photographer Mae Burke photographed a mother and her two daughters while they drink sodas at a beach in Port Aransas, Texas.

"A group of horses stands in the snow in my Star Valley, Wyoming" writes Your Shot photographer Tammy Neufeld. "I love cold winter drives through the Salt River valley were fog and cloud, steam from nearby hot springs and snow all create a surreal landscape out of familiar pastures."

"A man warms up for a pick-up ice hockey game in Boston Public Gardens," writes Your Shot photographer Timothy Floyd.

Your Shot photographer Helga Urban captured this moment of a rainbow in the clouds around a mountain in Iceland.

"I captured this golden image in the romantic sunset on Malecon, Havana," writes Your Shot photographer Marian Plaino. "The frame seemed to me as an old fashioned advertising for sometime in our past."

"Whilst the cattle were grazing, the young cattle herders sat in the afternoon sun and shared a joke," writes Your Shot photographer Andile Bongakonke Mthembu.

Your Shot photographer Wang Wei photographed a swimmer in icy waters.

"Nancy and her new home in Eden Village, a community of tiny homes for the chronically homeless," writes Your Shot photographer Lane Simmons. "She’s deaf so our entire conversation transpired on a notepad. She is a real champ letting a stranger come in and document her story."

"A woman dances to a street performer's music while surfers surf and the sun sets in Tel Aviv", writes Your Shot photographer Luke Tress.

"It’s nearly lunar new year in Vietnam and the farmers are rushing to take care of their flowers, in preparation to send to market," writes Your Shot photographer Trung Pham.

"A special bond exhibited by the deftest and most compassionate of touches," writes Your Shot photographer Ryan Kost. "A woman reassures her horse as it marches in downtown Denver at the annual National Western Stock Show Parade."