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@thebrownstuff.bsky.social Sep 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.social Sep 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.social Sep 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.social Sep 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.social Sep 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.social Sep 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.social Sep 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.social Sep 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.social Sep 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.social Sep 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.social Sep 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.social Sep 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.social Sep 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.social Sep 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.social Sep 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.

@thebrownstuff.bsky.social Sep 11, 2026, 7:36 PM

Danger of Death

#photooftheday #year3 #thebrownstuff #foundcomposition #deadpan

A badly damaged orange traffic cone stands in front of a rusting grey electrical cabinet displaying three yellow Danger of Death warning signs.

@thebrownstuff.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 7:16 PM

Into the Light

A little evening light finding its way through the copse.

#photooftheday #year3 #thebrownstuff #woodlandphotography #lightandshadow

A pale tree illuminated by evening sunlight stands among the deep shadows and dense foliage of a woodland.

@thebrownstuff.bsky.social Sep 9, 2026, 4:44 PM

Through the Frame.

Playing with a tiny LED, a pair of glasses and The Art of Street Photography.

#photooftheday #year3 #thebrownstuff #stilllifephotography #lightandshadow

Black reading glasses lying across a vivid red photography book, dramatically lit against a nearly black background.

@thebrownstuff.bsky.social Sep 8, 2026, 5:53 PM

Same View 4

#photooftheday #year3 #thebrownstuff #sameview #landscapephotography

A distant view across Hove to the sea, with offshore wind turbines picked out by late afternoon light beneath a large bank of cloud. Several vessels are visible on and below the hazy horizon.

@thebrownstuff.bsky.social Sep 7, 2026, 6:39 PM

The Old Water Wheel

#photooftheday #thebrownstuff #year3 #WaterWheel #IndustrialHeritage

A decaying water wheel beside an old mill building, partially concealed by trees and vegetation in Steyning, West Sussex.