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@thebrownstuff.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 3:35 PM

A lacewing in the hallway.

Both images are handheld focus stacks with the OM-1 II and 90mm Macro. The closer view was shot with flash, revealing remarkable detail in the compound eye.

#photooftheday #year3 #thebrownstuff #macrophotography #focusstacking

Close-up portrait of a green lacewing, with its finely patterned compound eye dominating the frame. Focus stacking and flash reveal the intricate eye, hairy legs and fine structures of the insect against a pale indoor background.A green lacewing rests indoors against a pale surface, its long antenna stretching across the frame towards the left. A handheld focus stack reveals the insect’s delicate translucent body and colourful compound eye.
@thebrownstuff.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 6:11 PM

After the Flowers

#photooftheday #year3 #thebrownstuff #macrophotography #focusstacking

A cluster of pale, fluffy seed heads stands against a softly blurred blue-green woodland background in Three Cornered Copse, Brighton and Hove. Fine overlapping filaments form dense, delicate structures, photographed using a handheld focus stack with subtle torch fill.
@thebrownstuff.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 1:55 PM

West from the Dyke

A two-frame panorama looking west from Devil’s Dyke across fields and woodland, with foreground scrub beneath a cloud-filled, hazy sky.

#photooftheday #year3 #thebrownstuff #devilsdyke #southdowns

Wide view from a hillside over patchwork fields and trees. Scrub and red berries frame the foreground; layered clouds stretch above the hazy horizon.
@thebrownstuff.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 6:45 PM

Along the Adur

Three photographs from a lunchtime wander beside the River Adur today. High tide, September sky and rather more water than I’d have liked .

Sometimes a walk produces one photograph; sometimes the pictures work better together.

#photooftheday #year3 #riveradur #sussex #thebrownstuff

A runner crosses a bridge over the River Adur in West Sussex, the bridge and railings reflected in the high water below.A warning sign stands partly surrounded by the high waters of the River Adur in West Sussex, cautioning of strong currents and underwater obstacles.The River Adur curves through the West Sussex landscape beneath a broad autumn sky, with the South Downs beyond.
@thebrownstuff.bsky.socialSep 27, 2026, 3:19 PM

Rolling

#photooftheday #year3 #abstractphotography #thebrownstuff #pareidolia

Softly defocused flames roll through the interior of a pizza oven, forming abstract shapes in orange, yellow, red and blue.
@thebrownstuff.bsky.socialSep 26, 2026, 4:52 PM

Triple Take

#photooftheday #year3 #thebrownstuff #street #reflections

A seated man appears three times in the glass of a café’s folding window. Sunlight catches the pink surround and wooden frame.
@thebrownstuff.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 7:11 PM

Waxing Gibbous

#photooftheday #year3 #thebrownstuff #moon #astrophotography

A nearly full moon shines through thin cloud, with dark leaves silhouetted around the edges.
@thebrownstuff.bsky.socialSep 24, 2026, 7:35 AM

Unfinished Conversation.

#photooftheday #year3 #thebrownstuff #stilllife #woodcarving

Two long, slender wooden figures brought back from Kenya in 2003 and recently rediscovered. In this close view, the figure on the right is sharp, its hand beneath its chin; the taller figure on the left is blurred against a pale wall.
@thebrownstuff.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 3:14 PM

The Approach.

#photooftheday #year3 #thebrownstuff #ivybee #wildlifephotography

An ivy bee works at her burrow entrance in a Hove garden while another approaches in flight.
@thebrownstuff.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 5:45 PM

Sweet Spot

Evening tennis through the fence at Hove Park.

#photooftheday #year3 #thebrownstuff #foundcomposition #colourphotography

A sharply focused chain-link fence and metal posts frame a blurred tennis player holding a racket on a sunlit pink-orange court at Hove Park.
@thebrownstuff.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 6:26 PM

Spiral in the Shadows, Works in the Landscape, Grid Geometry.

Sunlight inside St Botolph’s Church.
The former Shoreham Cement Works beneath its quarry.
A sunlit pylon.

#photooftheday #year3 #thebrownstuff #sussexphotography #photowalk

A tall twisted wooden candlestick catches a shaft of sunlight against the darkness of St Botolph’s Church in Botolphs, West Sussex.The former Shoreham Cement Works and its tall chimney sit among trees beneath the exposed chalk quarry near Upper Beeding, West Sussex.A low-angle view of an electricity pylon, radiating cables and white insulators against a deep blue sky in West Sussex.
@thebrownstuff.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 5:24 PM

Closer in the copse.

A small white, roots and shadows, fungi around a stump, and a leaf lit from behind. Details from this morning’s walk.

#thebrownstuff #woodlandphotography #naturaldetail #closeupphotography #naturephotography

A small white butterfly rests with its wings closed on a bramble leaf in Three Cornered Copse, Hove. Its pale yellow-green underwing reveals fine veins against softly blurred green foliage.Pale, overlapping fungi grow around a decaying tree stump among green woodland plants in Three Cornered Copse, Hove. A small lilac cluster nestles beneath a larger cap on the right.Exposed, twisting tree roots cast deep shadows across dry woodland soil scattered with twigs and fallen plant debris in Three Cornered Copse, Hove.Sunlight shines through a green leaf, revealing a fine network of veins around pale blotches and rust-brown patches of damage. Its serrated edge stands against softly blurred woodland in Three Cornered Copse, Hove.
@thebrownstuff.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 5:18 PM

From the Shadows.

#photooftheday #year3 #thebrownstuff #woodland #fungi

A fungus with a bright yellow, sponge-like underside and pink-red stem stands among fallen leaves and decaying wood in Three Cornered Copse, Hove. An old web with a suspended insect husk hangs to its left.
@thebrownstuff.bsky.socialSep 19, 2026, 4:59 PM

A Flame Waiting for a Spark

The pink caught my eye. Then the words made me smile.

#photooftheday #year3 #thebrownstuff #deadpan #graffiti

Two adjacent graffiti-covered garage doors, one black and one white. Bright pink writing on the white door reads “A flame waiting for a spark”, while warning signs and a black-and-yellow bollard punctuate the scene.
@thebrownstuff.bsky.socialSep 18, 2026, 6:12 PM

Rainbow Road

Christmas Eve in Polegate, 2013. Recovered from the archive and pushed somewhere rather psychedelic.

#photooftheday #year3 #thebrownstuff #abstractphotography #foundcomposition

Psychedelic bands of blue, green, yellow and purple oil surround scattered brown leaves on wet tarmac.
@thebrownstuff.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 6:58 PM

Ant Farm.

A black ant tends to its aphid flock on an ivy stem. A small parasitic wasp explores, unnoticed.

#thebrownstuff #photooftheday #year3 #ants #aphids

An ant stands on a layer of aphids on a hairy ivy stem. A small wasp is visible just below the ant.
@thebrownstuff.bsky.socialSep 16, 2026, 5:54 PM

Same View 5

Looking south from the top of Three Cornered Copse in Hove. A long-term project observing the atmosphere between the hilltop and the horizon.

#sameview #visibility #photooftheday #year3 #thebrownstuff

View south from Three Cornered Copse in Hove, with buildings and trees in the foreground, the sea and offshore wind turbines beyond, beneath scattered evening clouds.
@thebrownstuff.bsky.socialSep 15, 2026, 7:22 AM

September Sunrise

#photooftheday #year3 #thebrownstuff #dawnsky #clouds

Orange-red clouds glowing at dawn above the dark silhouette of a tree.
@thebrownstuff.bsky.socialSep 14, 2026, 6:25 PM

View over Steyning

#photooftheday #year3 #thebrownstuff #steyning #southdowns

A metal livestock water trough stands in an overgrown field above Steyning, with low grey cloud obscuring the distant South Downs.
@thebrownstuff.bsky.socialSep 13, 2026, 3:36 PM

Recursive.

A photo of a printer printing a photo.

#photooftheday #year3 #thebrownstuff #photography #printing

A colour photographic print emerging from a black Canon printer, with the printer controls and green power light visible above.