WELL, after you 'blue us away' last week with your teaming turquoise triumphs, we were 'reddy' not to be quite as crimson this week, but you're obviously going through a purple patch!

Asking our Camera Club members to send photos on the theme of 'red' we were aware it might be a bit of a challenge, but as Ian Marriott commented when sharing his tennis-themed photo on Wednesday: "I'm beginning to realise this week how much red there is around us: stringing two red rackets on my red stringing machine using red tools, I then noticed the camera I used to take the photo had a red strap!"

We've actually used two of Ian's photos this week because the second was so extraordinary – his experimental long-exposure of Oxford's Botley Road.

At first glance this shot looks like Jackson Pollock has splashed neon red paint across a canvas: it's only when you look closer you can see the streaks are red traffic lights and car brake lights dragged across the frame to create a pulsating, hallucinogenic masterpiece.

Then again, he's not the first person to see red while stuck on Botley Road...

Weirdly, Ian wasn't even the only person to send an arty shot of traffic lights: Susan Gibbs also sent in a quite beautiful shot of the red lights at the Milton Interchange at Didcot, blurred by windscreen raindrops at 7am on a Sunday morning.

Something about the red smear of the light juxtaposed with the early-morning blue sky and the grey road makes it look like an album cover for an experimental rock band.

Slightly more down-to-earth, Shane Ashley Leach sent in a photo of a cherry-red tractor driver competing in a ploughing competition at Lechlade in September.

Julia Johnson-Fry stuck with the transport theme, sending in a pictured of what some of you may recognise as the 'Harry Potter' train.

She explained: "This is the Jacobite Express, otherwise known as the Harry Potter steam train.

"It was taken at Mallaig on the west coast of Scotland, just before we re-embarked for the return journey to Fort William.

"We'd done the round trip and had chosen a beautiful day, so we also did an hour-long cruise from Mallaig around the Western Isles before the return journey."

Michelle Barber gets bonus points for giving us a beautiful Oxford photo on-theme – this red phone box on St Giles, shining like a beacon in the March morning mist.

Next week's theme is green!

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