Your pictures on the theme of 'glass'

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

A woman photographed through glass. The image is blurred around the woman but she can be partly seen through the glass. She is looking over her shoulder and appears to be standing on a promenade beside the sea.Image source, Long Truong
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Long Truong: "Between glass and sea, between presence and memory. Shot at sunset along the California coast, using glass as a portal to blend reality with memory."

A figure leans against a glass window causing a mirror image to appear. There is a stone building in the background of the picture. The person is engrossed in their phone and there is a paper bag on the ground beside them.Image source, Sandy McCune
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Sandy McCune: "While travelling across London, I noticed this person engrossed in their mobile phone while leaning up against the glass."

A gull seen from below through frosted glass. The gull is standing on the glass.Image source, Gill Stevens
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Gill Stevens: "The Herring Gull would tap on the skylight window above my work desk, much to my amusement. I think it also looks like it's standing on ice."

A blurred photograph of marbles. The main colours are green and gold with a hint of brown and orange.Image source, Jane Luetkens
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Jane Luetkens: "I am of the age when I am losing my marbles but came across the marbles I played with as a child. I still find them beautiful."

The figure of a male statue by artist Antony Gormley is reflected in a glass lens ball which has been placed in the sand on a beach at sunset.Image source, Stephen Carrigan
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Stephen Carrigan: "I used my lens ball on Crosby beach Liverpool. It was a beautiful, still evening with the statue looking on. Love the reflection from the ball."

A person uses a long-handled spoon to mix a drink on a bar covered with drinking glasses. Image source, Mark Ashmeade
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Mark Ashmeade: "Taken in a bar with dozens of glasses - with a 50-year-old Minolta Rokkor PG F1.2 58mm lens on a modern camera. The lens just melts everything else outside the subject glass. Wonderful."

A reflection of a photographer taking a picture of broken glass in a door window.Image source, Jojo Arnell
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Jojo Arnell: "Selfie in the reflection of a broken shop door window in Plymouth UK, 2019."

A black and white image of two figures - a man and a woman - reflected in glass windows. They are in a cityscape.Image source, Seán Silvia and Izabela Matysiak
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Seán Silvia and Izabela Matysiak: "We inhabit and project ourselves onto our city in a multi-layered conceptualisation, leaving reflections that place us deeply within and flat against, colouring the cityscape with our shadows."

Multi-coloured glass flowers photographed from underneath. It looks like a sea of flowers in mostly yellow and purple with the sun peaking out from behind them.Image source, Sven-Olof Jansson
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Sven-Olof Jansson: "Shot this Las Vegas glass roof from beneath, as it was Illuminated by a low January sun."

A rainbow of colours created by water on glass.Image source, Philip Warriner
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Philip Warriner: "I took this picture using a macro lens to capture close-up bubbles on glass."

Red wine swirls in a wine glass. The background is white.Image source, Gianlorenzo Masini
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Gianlorenzo Masini: "Red wines demand respect."

A lightbulb surrounded by bright colours. The background is black.Image source, Sean Corlett
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Sean Corlett: "When the weather isn't the best, this is a pretty good indoor photography project. I have placed an iPad in a dark cupboard and then put a bulb on top of that. Whatever is displayed on the iPad is reflected in the glass of the bulb. I tried several different pictures on the iPad but this one is my favourite."

A woman walks past holding an umbrella - as seen through wet glass. The woman is dressed in what looks like a pink and red sari and she is holding a blue umbrella. There are several electric bikes lines up behind her as she walks from the right to the left of the image.Image source, Sirsendu Gayen
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Sirsendu Gayen: "The colours of a rainy day through the glass window of the car."

The next theme is "monochrome" and the deadline for entries is 4 March 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 [email protected].

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