Your pictures on the theme of 'waiting'
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![An opera audience in their booths](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/16FE5/production/_105418149_92671.jpg)
Daniel Yiu: "An audience awaits the show at the famous Teatro alla Scala opera house in Milan, Italy."
![Driver on a steam train](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/5961/production/_105418822_db2b3aa1-fb72-47f0-96e8-2d75a1a670f5.jpg)
Nic Drew took this photo at Ropley station on the Watercress Line: "The steam train driver seemed to be in his own world, whilst waiting to depart."
![Old man with apples](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/70B3/production/_105415882_89039.jpg)
Oros Claudiu snapped this smiling man with his apples.
![Person by water with umbrella](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/003D/production/_105416000_90503.jpg)
Dayve Ward: "I caught this person admiring the view as the sun broke out fleetingly."
![An attendant waiting for visitors to arrive](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/C3A1/production/_105418005_92900.jpg)
Jonathan Wilkes: "A lady attendant waiting in the shade for visitors to arrive at the Ben Youssef Madrasa in the centre of Marrakesh."
![A Mariachi band in Xochimilco in Mexico City](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/B839/production/_105416174_92645.jpg)
Roman Glukhman says this Mariachi band in Xochimilco in Mexico City was waiting to be picked up by a passing boat.
![An incense worker sitting down on his break](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/3B4D/production/_105418151_92558.jpg)
Hero Wong took this picture of a worker on his break at an incense factory in China.
![A woman looking out a window in a wedding dress](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/C06D/production/_105416294_91972.jpg)
Bob Goode shared with us his digitised picture of a still taken in 1983.
![An elderly lady sits outside her doorway](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/7581/production/_105418003_92568.jpg)
Patrick Temmerman: "Taken a few years ago in Antwerp. The lady would occasionally turn and yell at some unseen person or thing in the darkened doorway."
![Lunchtime rush at a typical British chippy](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/4E5D/production/_105416002_90925.jpg)
Ross Swift photographed the lunchtime rush at a typical British chippy.
![A family waits outside their house](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/C38D/production/_105416005_89195.jpg)
Jayne Haywood: "Living in an area with high unemployment on the outskirts of Johannesburg. A boy waits for something to happen or someone to call. No electronic devices await him, just contemplation."
![Ballerinas waiting in a queue for the loo](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/15F5F/production/_105415998_92346.jpg)
Verna Evans photographed these ballerinas waiting in a queue for the loo.
![A cat crouches on a wall](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/07B3/production/_105417910_92509.jpg)
Vicky: "This cat was having fun sitting on the wall and 'swiping' at passers-by."
![A person covered in white material waits at a bus stop](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/10E8D/production/_105416296_92052.jpg)
The next theme is "wheels" and the deadline for your entries is 5 February. If you would like to enter, send your pictures to yourpics@bbc.co.uk. Further details and terms can be found by following the link to "We set the theme, you take the pictures" at the bottom of the page.
- Published17 January 2023