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 alex@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.

We were pleased to get this picture sent in by the influential Labour politician, and chair of English Heritage Baroness (Kay) Andrews. “I thought you might like this lowering photograph, taken by the dew pond on the South Downs Way, walking towards the windmills near Ditchling,” she writes. We do, indeed.

Next up, the latest from John Hinitt. “Inspired by Juliette Mitchell’s Lewes Moments #1 article in the Jan Viva,” he writes, “I was moved to retrace her steps and to record that moment of triumph at the summit of Keere Street. I am tempted to call it ‘The Latte at the end of the tunnel’.” Very good – the macchiatos are on John.

“I found this TV dumped on one of the more neglected bits of Chailey Common,” writes Ian Seccombe, “and couldn't resist giving it a surreal twist.” He’s photoshopped a screen within the screen, too. Very meta-TV.

“I took this picture this Sunday at the Lewes boot sale,” writes Chris Swayne. “I couldn’t resist it with the Harvey’s Brewery in the background and the interesting characters playing pool whilst trying to sell an old mantlepiece.”

“View down Sun Street,” writes Sarah Burlumi, simply.

“Two pix, both in the castle precincts, on the effect of light on fired clay;” writes Mike Ward-Sale, thus revealing another passion. “The first is sunlight on a handmade brick and un-napped flint-pebble wall.”

“The second is intense winter sunlight on a black mathematically-tiled building, showing the wire-cut grain of the hand-moulded clay. For anyone out there who doesn't know it already, these nifty little locally-made devices were used to give a more fashionable Georgian "Brightonian" appearance to earlier built timber-framed houses. They were hung with hidden nails, to form a faux brick look, which was then grouted with a fine mortar mix and buffed back to give an illusion of a pointed end-on brick facia. The hard-fired (or vitrified) black glazed version, shown here, was of course the most expensive option available. The illusion is however a pastiche and only skin-deep, as the window positionings would of course be well-nigh impossible to achieve in a brick built building.”

“Picture of a knitted picture,” writes Ruth O’Keeffe.

Sue Fasquelle is continuing a frosty theme to her offerings. This one is called ‘Frost on a car door’.

We love this entry from Sarah Burlumi. “This was taken close to the Viva Lewes office,” she writes. “It was a really cold bare January morning and by tweaking the photo a bit I feel that I kind of showed that bleakness quite well.”

“Please find attached a TtV photo of the Riverside,” writes David Stacey, continuing the bleak feel of this section of the column.

And there’s more: back to Sarah Burlumi. “This is the lovely view from my house,” she writes.

Xavi Buendia has been to Brighton. “The first shot was taken yesterday (Mon. 30th),” he writes. “The fire that started in La Tasca and paralysed North Street for about 4 hours (they say). I got there in a very Spanish way, arriving when the firemen were ready to call it a day.” His nationalsterotyping please note, not ours.

“Moving on looking for something nice to shoot I walked onto the Pier, turned back since the sea gulls were really annoying me, and noticed this one man on the beach, no one else around, and filled up the frame quite nicely. The architecture and tones reminded me of my mom’s travel shots from the 70s so I decided to give it a vintage look.”

The next shot is a detail of The Brighton Wheel and the Pier in the background,” he continues. “Not much to say about this shot, I just looked around, went up and down and tried to find an interesting composition, trying to stay away from the usual snappy shots.”

“The next shot is the snappy shot of the wheel turned up to 11!” he writes, snappily. “The light coming straight from the front made it hard to shoot and edit. This one is edited with Silver FX pro 2... I had to work loads around that strong light trying not to lose, burn or blow any detail.”

"And last but not least," he concludes, "this one is from Lewes Cemetery: just a bit of warm tones for this cold season."

Janice Winter has been away for a bit, but now she’s back. And she’s been to Brighton, too. “The graffiti was located in North Laine,” she writes…

…“and although I would not consider graffiti to be art in the conventional sense, I can appreciate the time and work involved in creating these unique pieces.”

“I have no idea who the chap is on the wall plaque,” she concludes, “but I think he looks like Sir Walter Raleigh. Anyone know who he is or what the purpose is of him being on this building? He is located above a shop near the Brighton clock tower opposite Boots.”

Finally, another piece of interesting street furniture, from Nick Robinson. “Fox knocker on Rotten Row,” he says.