FOR anyone who thought that everything just looks white in the snow, the Oxford Mail Camera Club have delivered colourful proof it does not.

In the week we asked for pictures of The Beast from the East, our frozen photographers delivered a flurry of Technicolor treats.

Anthony Morris's shots are a prime example: the photos are, indeed, mostly white, but that only draws the eye more to the colourful figures running through the centre of the frame in warm winter wardrobe.

Brian Walker's shot, weirdly, doesn't contain any white at all.

He captured what he called the 'raging' snow swirling in eddies around the outside light of his bungalow in Farmoor, but because of the black background and the yellow of the light, all we get is flakes of gold.

Sara Buck's shot of a series of garden lights also tricks the eye light some optical illusion: although we're looking at a frame full of white snow, every colour in that image is a different shade of blue, from indigo to deepest Navy.

Mandy Dickinson remarkably managed to capture winter and spring in a single shot with this photo of a puppy bounding from a snow drift into a bed of – what else? – snowdrops.

As well as colours we also got a fabulous array of textures with our snowfall.

Perhaps the finest example is Gordon Craig's photo of a solid blanket of snow which has gently rippled and uncurled in a single piece from a hedgerow near Chipping Norton: it almost looks like the icing around the base of wedding cake.

The ever-experimental Paul Wakelin, meanwhile, found a hollow block of ice in a bucket in his garden then used it to frame a series of objects including these daffodils to marvellous affect.

More of the photos were just plain good fun, like Sarah Mason's photo of one woman's defiant stance against the snow, or Ann Faulkner's portrait of her improbably slender snowman, or possibly ice woman.

Next week's theme: 'three is the magic number'.

WIN £25

The Oxford Mail Camera Club – which now has more than 500 members – is sponsored by Jessops.

You can join the fun by visiting facebook.com and searching for Oxford Mail Camera Club.

See tomorrow’s Oxford Mail for this week’s best photo winner of £25.