THIS month Kirkbymoorside Camera Club's feature focuses on flowers.

The variety in flowers is staggering. Ranging from the massive, bold sunflower to the tiny delicate stitchwort, some being so small that you really need a magnifying class to appreciate their beauty.

Their presentation is also varied from the solitary wild orchid, half hidden under a hedge, to the fields of wild flowers, the wonderful cultivated borders seen in the stately homes and of course the bunches of flowers seen in the florists and super markets.

When it comes to photographing them the options are varied, from concentrating on a single bloom taken outside or even bringing one indoors where you can control the lighting and have no problems with wind, you can focus on just part of a flower and see the extreme close up details or just take in a wide view of a mass of flowers.

Whatever you do, you try to capture their splendour.

Kirkbymoorside and District Camera Club meets on the first and third Thursdays of the month at the Moorside Club (previously known as the British Legion Club), Shaw Drive, Kirkbymoorside, at 7.30pm.

New members of all standards are welcome. For more information, go to kirkbymoorside-camera-club.co.uk

Liz Bassindale-Snowdrop

Taken on a family visit to Nunnington Hall. I left my daughter playing in the 'mud kitchen' with her grandparents and had a try at photographing the snowdrops. A pair of muddy knees later I'd captured this shot of the early-spring sunshine glowing through their delicate white petals.

Julie Cowdy – Day lily

Hemerocallis, common name Day lily, comes in a wide range of colours. I wanted to make a creative image, so first I took a photograph of the flowers, then made a pencil drawing of them. Finally, I combined the two together on the computer.

Mike Ward - Close up

When you take a close-up photograph you see so much more than with a naked eye, such as the hairs on the sepals which protected the flower when it was in bud and the colours and fine details of the stigma and stamen.

Colin Dilcock - Wild Flower Meadow

A view across the Wild Flower Meadow at the Helmsley Walled Garden towards the hot border with the castle set against a dramatic sky. Taken in mid-summer when the wild flowers were at their peak.

Joyce Kingman - Viburnum farreri (V. fragrans)

This picture was taken last April. The shrub started flowering again at the end of October and has flowered all through the winter. It produces the most beautiful scent, as its alternative name indicates, a real bonus on a winter’s day.

Harry Kingman – Poppy Field

I noticed this field of poppies when returning home from Malton along the A64. The day was perfect with bright sunshine, blue skies and interesting fluffy clouds. I returned and took a series of image, looking towards Welburn, of the poppies growing in the field of ripening rape.

Richard Harrison - Orange beauty

This orange beauty was one of the last flowers in the old summer ~ just right to light in the new spring at Dairy Cottage.

Barrie Tuck – Bee and sunflower

The sunflower shot was taken in my garden as the bees love the nectar on such a large flower head. The height of the flower is not important but a sunny location gives the best result to attract the bees and get some close up images whilst they are busy.