Do please visit them - you'll see fabulous photographs from around the world. There are 118 Daily City Photo bloggers participating in today's Theme. HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone - and may all your dreams come true and all your photographs be PERFECT. Much to learn technically though, and I'm so grateful for the generous encouragement and great advice from so many of you - my fellow City Bloggers - THANK YOU SO MUCH.

This has been a year when I've discovered the world of photography and that I just love taking photographs, composing shots, trying to tell a story. Not technically correct - but perhaps acceptable for a Point and Shoot camera. This was taken at the Children's Fair at dusk in the port of Monaco - I loved the bouncing boy and wished I were him! Somehow, too, he seems a positive symbol for the New Year - onwards and upwards! Another choice for today would have been a photo taken later that same night - Fireworks over the Port of Monaco - one of the few night shots that's worked for me.

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