Your pictures on the theme of 'summertime'

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

Liz Jones: "Jumping into the ocean from the top of a boat in Italy."

Robert Eshelman: "Morning gecko perched on a summertime petal."

Matthew Logan: "Fishing on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal near Washington, DC is a timeless summertime ritual."

Roland Trope: "Summertime is a season for friends to gather outdoors for conversations. The 'stoops' (a porch with steps in front of a house) in Manhattan's Lower East Side is a favourite gathering place where friends can relax and talk as if in a living room, especially in the afternoon where the conversation changes with the light."

Henrietta Englefield: "Our daughter and her boyfriend celebrating a happy summer afternoon in Korcula, Croatia."

Prerna Jain: "Woman drinking water from a water tanker on a Delhi street on a hot summer day."

Patrick Foan: "On a hot summer's day in the garden, this young blackbird landed just two metres away from me, spread his (or her) wings and began to sunbathe."

Eve Oakley: "A golden footprint in the sand on a summer's evening."

Richard Palmer: "The golden stare."

Jorge Frank took this picture under a parasol

Marianne Wever: "In my back yard under the parasol, while the bright sun and trees remain visible through it."

Zoe Hodkinson: "Pool life."

Juliet Davis: "Taking mother on her annual outing to Southwold in Suffolk. The beach huts looked so pretty."

Doris Enders: "The right bar stools to sit in to enjoy the summer."

Anne Bostwick: "A summertime treat on a hot day."

Linda St Louis: "This image was captured in St Lucia in a place called Micoud. I arrived for the morning sunrise and was met with fishermen preparing to sail."

Nikki McIntyre: "Always fabulous walking and breathtaking views when in lovely Carding Mill Valley Shropshire."

Tavas Bharadwaj: "A puffin comes in to land at the edge of a cliff in Heimaey, Westman Islands, Iceland. Puffins spend most of the year at sea. During the summer breeding season, they return to the cliffs and their beaks change from grey to red."

Zara Mylchreest: "Milo at Cadair Idris. Making it halfway to the top of the peak."

Shim Sumin: "I developed a fear of water after falling into it during my childhood. Nevertheless, I was determined to confront this fear and learn to swim, so I dedicated myself to practise for a year. In the summer of 2022, I ultimately visited the ocean, which represented a significant personal transformation for me during that season."

Sally Esau: "A couple enjoying the summertime at a local viewpoint in Sheringham, Norfolk. I especially like the lady's pretty sunhat."

The next theme is "still life" and the deadline for entries is 3 September 2024.

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 [e-mail].

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

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