Your best photos of last week

"On the occasion of the Sant'Agata celebrations [in Siciliy], young women dressed as brides known as "ntuppatedde", with their veiled faces, make their appearance," writes Your Shot photographer Antonella Platania. "The ntuppatedde are a celebration of the woman, of her freedom. In a society in which the word"femicide" too often resonates, this initiative is meant to encourage all women to fight for their freedom.The flower that they carry as a trophy, is a symbol to represent love."

A young girl looks at Chinese calligraphy strung into a tree in Dublin, Ireland from the Lunar New Year celebration.

"I had this vision swirling around for a week" writes Your Shot photographer C. Tobon. "I envisioned it as a self portrait but my son was down to be my model."

"The snow made an abrupt line on the mountains today, in the Oregon Coast Range," writes Your Shot photographer Joan Martelli. "The air was so crisp and clear, you could pick out all the individual trees on the slope across the valley from us."

Your Shot photographer Angelika Kollin created this diptych portrait to explore inter-human intimacy.

"Rising up the the city floor, the two Westin Towers stand tall and a reminder of the advanced architecture that was happening in the late sixties," writes Your Shot photographer Dana McMullen.

"It was a selfie with my newly married wife," writes Your Shot photographer Ritinkar Sarkar. "We were returning home after an adventurous honeymoon trip on a flight. We had a wonderful memorable trip."

"The teeth of a parrotfish are fused to strong plates with which they can scrape polyps and algae of the surface of hard corals," writes Your Shot photographer Joerg Blessing."They also ingest some of the corals limestone skeleton which they release in clouds of fine white sand."

"A young crocodile came from no where while birds were drinking and catching food," writes Your Shot photographer Mohammad Murad. "They started to gather on him like if they wanna attack, then suddenly the crocodile stretched his neck out of the water like he wanted to attack back! It was something amazing to witness!"

"The party was finished and I already say goodbye to the couple," writes Your Shot photographer Mateo Boffano. "Suddenly they tried to throw the brother of the bride into the water, I took the camera out of my bag and made just 3 shots. When I returned home I could see how amazing it had been!"

"My son is facing the spectacular beauty and beauty of Niagara Falls," writes Your Shot photographer Dina Alfasi.

Your Shot photographer Chloe Elsie Rose Plummer was aimlessly snapping photographs at a beachside restaurant in La Baule, France when this trio of horses rode through her frame beneath the moon.

Your Shot photographer Bruce William Thompson made this portrait of a young boy and his pet tarantula at a market on the outskirts of Phnom Penn, Cambodia.

Your Shot photographer Ninive Viktoria Guenes made this portrait on the balcony of the home she stayed in during a vacation in Austria.