Stamford Bridge Photography Group pick out their favourite pictures

Kate had asked if there anyone in Stamford Bridge would be interested in meeting to discuss photography and perhaps to go out on photo-shoots.

The response was enthusiastic: and the formation of a camera club seemed the only answer.

That was in February 2012. The first couple of meetings of the newly formed Stamford Bridge Photography Group were held in peoples' homes. The group then moved venue to a room at the Stamford Bridge sports hall association, where the 14 members now meet regularly once a month.

They take the business of photography seriously. Professional photographers – including local photographers James Rossdale, Chris Ceaser and Paul Moon – regularly attend meetings to give talks and presentations, and also lead members for outdoor tuition in the Yorkshire Wolds.

One of the group's original members, John Sanderson – whose work featured in The Press recently – also runs Photoshop tutorials on club nights. "These can be quite addictive and sometimes carry on with laptops in the bar where all the group retreat after meetings," he says.

The group has already held two well-attended exhibitions in Stamford Bridge – exhibitions which, says Kate, attract "a wide audience who vote enthusiastically for their favourite picture and enjoy discussing photographs of places they have visited."

And the quality of members' work is amply illustrated by the photographs on these pages.

Purple Flowers by Kerry Bonello

Bernadette Oliver's portrait of high-rise buildings in Dubai casting a rippling reflection in a glass window has a movement and poetry all its own.

There is a beautiful precision to Julian Startup's close-up of a marble white butterfly on a stem, meanwhile – and the colours and textures in Kerry Bonello's photographs of purple flower-heads are just glorious.

But every reader will have their own favourite. Look out for the group's work being featured on these pages again in the not too distant future...