THEY say three’s a crowd but we think we may have hit on just the right number with this week’s ‘four’ theme.

Camera Club members have once again excelled at sending us a host of imaginative snaps featuring everything from flocks in flight to family and architecture, as well as an irresistable pun.

We received a plethora of perfectly captured shots of wildlife this week, from the in-motion image of gulls by Jeff Higgs taken at Hinksey Park and the sweet trio of ducklings with their mother by Becca Collacott to the unsettling staring sheep in Jayme Granito’s off-kilter photograph.

One of the best of the bunch was a more up-close image of a monkey’s four fingers curving around the edges of a fence taken by Sharon Allen at Cotswold Wildlife Park in Burford.

The delicate detail of the fur is perfectly captured in the black and white shot.

Another source of inspiration this week was quartets of people.

Along with images of Abingdon rowers training on the Thames and medieval reenactors at Blenheim Palace, many members looked closer to home and featured their families.

A particularly nice example is Ami Downer’s shot, which sees her four children standing on grass-covered sands dunes of various heights at Oxwich Bay in Swansea.

Dawn Tivnan, meanwhile, rather than looking for a group of four found the number in the rigging of ship while on holiday in Weymouth.

The prize for originality, however, surely goes to Ian Marriott this week for a duo of snaps inspired by a classic Two Ronnie’s sketch - doubly appropriate given Ronnie Barker’s connection to the county.

In one picture he shows a row of four candles and in another a collection of (pitch)fork handles as a reference to the comic misunderstanding between a shopkeeper and customer.

Sharing it on the Camera Club Facebook this week he called it an homage to the “best sketch ever”.

Next week’s them is texture and we are hoping for tangible results.

Happy snapping!

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