Your pictures on the theme of 'in the dark'

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

Callum Collie: "This lovely red fox was captured earlier this month in Dumfries and Galloway, whilst searching for dinner."

Stuart Macaulay: "Taken on a northern-lights hunting trip at Abisko, Sweden, where a tepee was set up to offer us some shelter from the biting cold and wind."

Eira Smith: "Venice - even more atmospheric at night."

Bartek Biela: "A caver returning up the Monastery pitch in Lost John's Cave, a fine vertical cave accessible to experienced cavers only by rope, Leck Fell, Yorkshire Dales."

Daniel J Castelli: "A resident in our town, of Portland, Connecticut, built a replica of the Doctor's Tardis. It served as a free tiny library. By photographing it at night, on film, I eliminated a distracting, messy background."

Louise Dixon: "In a beer garden, investigating the dark."

Patrick Dixon: "A common frog caught crawling through an old rusty machine in the garden."

Carl Gibbons: "Even at midnight, the concrete carries the heat of the day."

Keely Pleger: "Exploring Central Oregon lava caves with only our flashlights. It was a very different feeling when the lights went out."

Lynsey Hewitson: "A single light in the darkness revealed this African lion in the Okavango Delta, golden and majestic."

The next theme is "barriers" and the deadline for entries is 26 July 2022.

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 on this page or email them to [e-mail].

Terms and conditions apply.

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

All photographs subject to copyright.