Your pictures on the theme of 'circles'

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

Image source, Molly Mae Bergum
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Molly Mae Bergum: "A frog peaks out its head from under the surface of a springtime puddle."

Image source, Claire Louot
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Claire Louot: "Why think complicated when you can have it simple?"

Image source, Tony Cullen
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Tony Cullen: "I took this in the underground part of Seville bus station[, Spain]. All of the stairways have portholes and act as a natural frame."

Image source, Thomas Burke:
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Thomas Burke: "Seagulls get a prime seat and view atop public art in Ermoupolis port, Syros, Greece."

Image source, Mark Roughley
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Mark Roughley: "I was learning how to take photographs of fireworks in prep for bonfire night, using the manual setting 'bulb with f/8 aperture'."

Image source, Phil Sinclair
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Phil Sinclair: "Not sure why this double-yolked egg amuses so much but it seems to make everyone smile."

Image source, Jane Cropp
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Jane Cropp: "Table decoration."

Image source, Nicola Wallace-Blake
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Nicola Wallace-Blaker: "Whilst visiting Lindisfarne, [Northumberland,] we went to the Holy Island lime kilns, built in the 1860s, and I was small enough to go through the 'eye', through which the burnt lime was drawn, and looked up to the sky."

Image source, David Granshaw
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David Granshaw: "Dressmakers' pins with coloured threads, placed outside the depth of focus to give a colourful backdrop."

Image source, Marius van Tetterode
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Marius van Tetterode: "In the forest near Duesseldorf, Germany, I saw this 'circle'."

Image source, Duncan Brookes
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Duncan Brookes: "A Porsche 911 caught in the mirror of a Morgan car at Bicester Heritage Scramble event [Oxfordshire]".

Image source, Diana Turner
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Diana Turner: "Perfect circles of giant water lilies snapped during a visit to Kew Gardens [Richmond]."

Image source, Sandra Prytherch
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Sandra Prytherch took this picture at the Loon Mountain Gondola Summit, Lincoln, New Hampshire, USA.

Image source, Ken Hirons
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Ken Hirons: "Emerging tree ferns' fronds as circles."

Image source, Lester Cunningham
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Lester Cunningham: "Gwennap Pit, in Redruth [Cornwall] - rumoured to be the site of a sunken mine or thought to be a natural formation, the layered concentric circles were used as a natural amphitheatre."

Image source, Sarah Swanson
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Sarah Swanson: "Fresh acorns."

The next theme is "tiny creatures" and the deadline for entries is 22 November 2023.

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 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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