Your pictures on the theme of 'bright lights'

22 December 2024

We asked our readers to send in their best pictures on the theme of "bright lights". Here is a selection of the photographs we received from around the world.

Bright red lights on tree branches blurred by movement

Jane Luetkens

Jane Luetkens: "I liked the abstract patterns made by the Christmas lights and tree branches."

A figure walks along a foggy road in the dark. There are buildings on the left of the figure, a road on the right and Christmas lights in the distance.

Zoe Rawcliffe

Zoe Rawcliffe: "A foggy morning walk."

Three people playing cards at a table by candlelight. They are sitting beside a window and it is dark outside.

Tony Dowell

Tony Dowell: "Sometimes it only takes three candles to provide all the bright light you need for a game of cards and happy reflections on the day's forest walk... Orongorongo Valley, New Zealand."

A man in a red bandana smiles and holds his arm aloft. He is part of a crowd of people celebrating and there are flying sparks in the night sky.

Matias Alvarez

Matias Alvarez: "As I attempted to dodge the flying sparks, I lifted my head and saw this man with a stick over his head seeming to enjoy the mayhem of the Catalonian tradition known as the Correfoc."

A woman silhouetted against the sun. She is striding across a road. There are skyscrapers in the background.

Zaid Al-Hilli

Zaid Al-Hilli: "Capturing the golden hour bright sunlight on the streets of Melbourne."

Tony Cook

Tony Cook: "I was having breakfast in the garden one fine May morning when I noticed morning dew on my crocosmia leaves. I used a macro lens and got in close, shooting against the sunlight. The white blobs are out-of-focus dewdrops."

Red and white spirals created by a torch in the dark

Monica Berry

Monica Berry: "Playing with a torch to create Spirographs."

A figure looks at an aquarium full of jellyfish

Kelsey Hilgers

Kelsey Hilgers: "Jellyfish illuminated at the Georgia Aquarium."

A whirring fairground ride is pictured against the night sky. It is reflected in a river which is in the foreground of the picture.

Ian Knight

Ian Knight: "A fairground ride at Trentham Gardens, part of the Winter light trail at the famous Staffordshire tourist spot. I had no tripod with me so the camera was balanced on a wall to take this long exposure shot."

William Caldwell

William Caldwell: "Fairground rides at night on Nairn Links."

Two people look in the window of a department store at night. There are mannequins in the windows in shiny dresses.

Elena Raikhlin

Elena Raikhlin: "Captured in Amsterdam on a cold, rainy day, the department store's bright lights were irresistible, piercing through the gloom with their glow."

A ballet dancer stands on tiptoes in the middle of a trail of Christmas lights

Robert David

Robert David: "Christmas en Pointe: A concept shoot with my daughter."

A person with an umbrella passes bright lights. The person has their head down and is walking against the rain.

John Barnes

John Barnes: "A rainy night in London."

Bright lights in an infinity room. The room is dark and the speckled lights are shades of purple and blue.

Pokman Cheung

Pokman Cheung: "Catching Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirror Rooms exhibition at Tate Modern and being momentarily transported to the centre of a galaxy."

A man stands on the central section of Regent Street in London as cars pass on either side

Mark Hazelwood

Mark Hazelwood: "Using shutter speed to capture the glorious bright lights of Regent Street at Christmas, shot on 35mm film."

Rachael Blakey

Rachael Blakey: "Lighting up a light bulb with a candle, photograph taken in New Brunswick, Canada."

A shelter on a pier; one side is lit, the other in darkness

Jojo Arnell

Jojo Arnell: "Boscombe Pier in England. Did one half of the pier have a power cut?"

The next theme is "agriculture" and the deadline for entries is 7 January 2025.

The pictures will be published later that week and you will be able to find them, along with other galleries, on the In Pictures section of the BBC News website.

You can upload your entries directly here or email them to yourpics@bbc.co.uk.

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Further details and themes are at: We set the theme, you take the pictures.

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