NIGHTS are drawing in, leaves are turning from green to red and conkers are beginning to make an appearance - much to the delight of schoolchildren.

And the changing season has also inspired the county's photographers to capture pictues of autumnal Worcestershire.

Here is a selection of your pictures:

Andy Harrison took this picture of the sun rising through Diglis bridge

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These fascinating funghis were pictured by Susie Cunningham at Monkwood Nature Reserve

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Siobhàn Gordon took the next three images. The first of clouds at Top Barn Farm

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A misty start in Diglis

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A beautiful sunset over the M5 at Worcester

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A beautiful image taken by Paul Savage of his eight-year-old daughter Suraya on top of the beacon

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Paul Archer collected all this on the way to where he stores his caravan near Powick - except the apple which came from his own back garden.

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