WHO knew – it turns out camera club members aren't just excellent at photography, they're also poetic as well!

When presented with the challenge of capturing the 'last days of summer', you've all gone a bit soft-focus, bleary-eyed and season-of-mists-and-mellow-fruitfulness...

Alan Flash Coleman, for example, sent a picture of a simple desiccated thistle head and captioned it: "[In the] last days of summer, the thistle has lost its greenery and the last rays of summer sun have dried the plant out."

Ian White sent in a mouthwatering photo of his very healthy-looking grape harvest on Facebook and said: "The grapes have done well this year so the shoes and socks will be coming off soon and the treading can begin.

"Anybody fancy a glass?"

Yes please!

Kristina Palm, meanwhile, submitted an absolutely sun-drenched shot of a heavenly holiday hotspot and wrote simply: "Sunny beach in Bulgaria is calling me back..."

Others of you managed to send images which were pure poetry without any words at all.

Lucas Janse van Vuuren?'s shot, for example, of a long-abandoned car rusting on an empty country lane, lit up with a spotlight of late afternoon summer sun, manages somehow to bring a tear to the eye.

Marlon Williams also made picture poetry on his iPhone, and using the most unlikely of subject – the new 'lantern' on top of the revamped Westgate Centre.

Geoffrey Hill has even managed to make Didcot Power Station look beautiful in this sumptuous, scenic sunset shot.

Ben Adams deserves special mention – and not for the first time in camera club – for his clever use of digital technology, stitching together two nighttime photos of his own mobile home to produce his vision of the last days of summer.

It's enough to make a journalist rather misty-eyed!

Anyway, enough of that, and onto next week when our challenge will be – what else? – Back to School!

We want your most adorable shots of your darling children in caps, blazers and shorts, equipped with pencil and schoolbook ready and rearing (or not!) to learn.

Just a little reminder while we are here – while we love to see all your photographs on our weekly theme or now, if you are sending your pictures on our theme, please caption them up so we know to use them in our spread!

Happy snapping.