We asked our readers to send in their best pictures on the theme "in my hand". Here are some of the pictures we received from around the world.
Syeda Arzu Wasti
Syeda Arzu Wasti: "A Japanese lady I had never met placed these symbols of good fortune and longevity in my hand, and disappeared."
Kevin Sivakumar
Kevin Sivakumar: "During a trip to Chicago with my friend, we were in awe of the gigantic buildings and city views, while everyone else was in awe of their smartphones, lost in their own worlds."
Oliver Kupferschmidt
Oliver Kupferschmidt: "A freshly-hatched lizard explores the outskirts of Berlin in early summer. Photographed in a girl's hand."
William Wood
William Wood: "My son's hand griping my thumb, displaying a newborn's grasp reflex. My hand surrounds his hand and my thumb."
Linda Rowe
Linda Rowe: "The Shard in my hand."
Meg Blacker
Meg Blacker: "From an old series I created for the Seven Deadly Sins. This was taken on black-and-white film and then tinted digitally."
Nicholas Kasper
Nicholas Kasper: "I had the idea for this photograph while my wife and her sister were socially distancing in our back garden over a cup of tea, the week before Christmas."
John Leah
John Leah: "This juvenile wren flew into my house but couldn't escape. I gently picked it up and took it to the window, held my arm out and opened my hand for it to fly away. But it just sat there seemingly content with us looking at each other - so long, in fact, that I had time to reach for a camera and take this shot before Jenny and I eventually parted company."
Paul Kemp
Paul Kemp: "A collection of miniature shells on a beach in Queensland, Australia."
Robert Horner
Robert Horner: "This was a sculpture at the entrance to Yvoire, a beautiful medieval village in the Haute Savoie on the southern shore of Lake Geneva. The sculptures are changed regularly, but this was special with the flower between the thumb and forefinger. The castle's kitchen garden is open to the public, and is called Le Jardin des Cinq Senses."
Chris Fawcett
Chris Fawcett: "This picture of my now six-year old son was taken when he was a month old and a lot lighter than he is now."
Prerna Jain
Prerna Jain: "Adorned with Henna."
David Morgan
David Morgan: "Super son and supermoon, taken in Bushy Park."
Paul Ward
Paul Ward: "Meeting friends in the park, life getting back to normal."
Mann Marie-Claire
Mann Marie-Claire: "I took my nine-year-old daughter to a modern art exhibition near our home in Paris and she was thoroughly bored. But when we got home, she took this photo of her own artistic creation and said: 'I'm an artist too!'"
Piers Casimir-Mrowczynski
Piers Casimir-Mrowczynski: "Unbeknown to us, taken by our daughter during a family walk."
The next theme is "animal crossing", and the deadline for entries is 29 June 2021.
Syeda Arzu Wasti
Kevin Sivakumar
Oliver Kupferschmidt
William Wood
Linda Rowe
Meg Blacker
Nicholas Kasper
John Leah
Paul Kemp
Robert Horner
Chris Fawcett
Prerna Jain
David Morgan
Paul Ward
Mann Marie-Claire
Piers Casimir-Mrowczynski
