Every week we will be publishing readers’ (and staff) photos in this space. The best reader’s photo of the month will be published in the Viva Lewes Handbook, with a prize of £20. Please send your (hi res 300dpi or more) pics into info@vivalewes.com, with a short description of when and why you took them. Viva Lewes reserve the right to use pictures in future editions of this magazine, or any other Viva Magazines Ltd product, unless otherwise arranged.

“Taken Wednesday 25th Aug from my back garden just after 6am,” writes Graham Parks. “This picture has not been through any sort of software processing. The colour is real. The light was changing almost by the second. Five minutes after I took this the spectacular lightshow was over.”

“Very few contributions lately as I know you don’t want shots of Vienna, Marrakech or Moscow!” writes Lilliana Gibbs. “This one captured last week in Grange Gardens, giving perhaps a misleading sense of summer.”

Here’s the latest from Tim Herdal. “This one is a bit far away from Lewes this week,” he writes. “But I decided I loved the look that this bird kept giving me. It was at Eagle Heights near Sevenoaks. I was amazed at how huge and elegant these birds were.”

“My youngest Joseph has spent a lot of time crawling round the garden with the camera,” writes Sarah Rideout. “and he took these. I like the circular patterns on his finger and cricket (its a speckled busk cricket).”

“This is Ant Tower,” she continues. “Stones with holes in from the beach which the ants have turned into an apartment block!”

Here are a couple from Barbel Andrews. “When walking on Malling Down I came across two sheep (breed unknown) which were hiding rather cheekily behind the flowering buddleia in an old quarry.  I like their inquisitive look and their attempts at camouflage.”

“On another walk along Seaford beach,” she continues, “I came across these flattened wind-avoiding chairs by the cafe, an almost surreal image suggesting absent customers sheltering in a covered seat from the strong gusts that blew one's capuccino froth onto hand and wrist (not pictured, only experienced).”

"Recently moving back to Lewes, I took it upon myself to capture the dramatic, yet beautiful surroundings of the South Downs" writes Brigitta Anderson.

“I took this picture on my phone (a Samsung Genio touch) on a walk from Firle to Newhaven,” writes Jon Stringer, “after the visiting the village fair. It was taken at the top of Firle Beacon around dusk and sunset on the 30th, the weather was fine and there was a group of hang-gliders drinking in the view from the sky. Virginia Woolf wrote that 'Evenings are kind to Sussex', it appears that she was right.”

“Birds of different feathers,” writes Ian Cairns. “A young sparrowhawk on our bird table at Seaford Head…”

“…and a Spitfire chasing a Messerschmitt over the trees at Shoreham.”

“You commented last week that the wildlife seemed to have dried up,” writes Sue Fasquelle. “This is to reassure that it hasn't - you probably won't use this though because it wasn't taken in Lewes (or even Sussex), [she’s wrong there] but was an encounter I had in rural Oxfordshire with a Muntjac doe. We stood and looked at each other for a good 5 minutes, then ever so slowly she edged her way towards me - I took the photo when she was about 10 metres away, but of course my movement broke the spell and she fled.”

“This one WAS taken in Lewes - on my bedroom ceiling,” she continues. “You'll have to take my word for it that its leg span was 12cms.”

“Popped along to Laughton Church today and took some nice shots,” writes Janice Winters. “I took some under and over exposed shots of the windows, and then ran it through the HDR feature on PhotoShop CS5. Great results and lovely detail, and all with an Olympus 6020 compact.”

Daisy Martin writes: “Taken on Tuesday 31st on a walk with my brother, we thought the aeroplane lines looked a bit like a noughts and crosses board. But this sunset was a pretty lovely one, unfortunately I didn't have my camera on me, only my phone camera but I couldn't miss out on it! It's also not been edited at all.”