FROM fun, colourful shots to striking and emotive images, photographers from the Selsdon Camera Club capture an array of subjects from around the world.

This week we have the privilege of bringing our readers The World Has Gone Black Before My Eyes, taken by member David Harford.

He said: "This is Mubarak, the grandfather of a family I have visited over the last three years.

"They live in a very small village, largely abandoned, in Oman.

"When I arrived this year one of the children riding his bicycle saw me coming around the corner, he spun round and dashed back to his house to tell the others I was coming.

"They weren't expecting me.

"There was no way of contacting them.

"These episodes make my journeys travelling alone worthwhile.

"If I was part of a group, or even with my wife or family, it would be unlikely that contacts and invitations to have coffee and dates, or even stay for a day or so, would be made.

"I don't see the grand cities, or the contrived displays of culture etc for the tourist trade.

"But I feel I do see and experience life with the real people of Oman."