365-days-photo-project

I found my first picture of the day early in the morning in front of my friends house. Hope you had a good start into 2015! Happy new year!

The outside world today is drab, gray, rainy and dull. So here is the first macro quiz. What's this? I'm sure you've already recognized it.

A lot of work today ... That's what you get if you ignore the correction stack. Solution of the yesterdays quiz: Bubble-wrap Congratulations, you've guessed it!

Today the sun finally appears and you can go out for the photo of the day. I can not help it, I love the macro world...

Today I visited the Harry Potter exhibition with my godson. Here you can see one shelf of Snapes lab. This is all you need for potions (My favorite subject ... I´d love to teach it :-D )

This is a tree that I wanted to photograph a long time ago. Unfortunately, you can´t get close and you have that look only from a heavy traffic road. So I had to stop, take pictures out of the car and then drive away quickly. It is also the image for the theme week "lonely tree" of the 10-week photography project "Trees". Tomorrow, the holidays are over, so I probably will not have as much time to comment on your pictures, but I try and distribute at least stars.

Back to work. I have already noticed today how difficult it is to work all day and still make a photo of the day. I had an appointment in the city and had shot an uninteresting photo from the parking garage roof. At home I have edited the depths and here is the picture of the day: Towers of Bonn. (I'm sure goblins and elves live there.)

Star Sand Again rain. Therefore, I have laid fossil foraminifera under the binocular today. Here is more Information (source: http://whenonearth.net/star-sand-beach-japan/ ) Iriomote Island is a small island in Okinawa , Japan where beach-goers are normally seen crouched over, examining the sand rather than swimming in the waters. This is because most beaches on Iriomote Island–as well as some neighboring islands in southern Japan–contain “hoshizuna” or star-shaped sand. The local legends states that star sand was made of the tiny skeletons of the offspring of the Southern Cross and the North Star, who were killed by a giant serpent right after being born in the ocean. But according to science, these beautiful particles are the exoskeletons of millions of foraminifera–marine protozoans–that are believed to be fossil evidence dating back 550 million years ago, one of the oldest fossils known to man. The best time to find some is just after a typhoon, when the sand stars are stirred up beneath the ocean floor and washed up on the shore in enormous numbers. If you look closely enough, you might even find some that are still alive!

I have no idea what it is, but I drive past it every day.

What the flood left behind. One more rainy stormy day.

For my Sunday-Challenge No5 "Tools of the Trade" ... absolutely no camera, camera bits and accessories... Show us what you do, did, used or wanted to do in the way of a 'job'! This is the tool I use constantly. Despite all the technological progress a piece of chalk and a blackboard is still best suited to explain something. When I see your great photos of your tools now, I think my picture is pretty boring ... :-D

Bad-Hair-Day for me and some trees? The project "Trees" goes to the second week and the subject is "group of trees". Three or more are a group and I found this group on my way home. The weather is not getting any better. During the day it is not really bright. That´s annoying.

1/12. This is a small project in the project. I have decided to photograph each month once the view from my balcony. This is January, the way it is here in the Rhineland. Gray and dreary. I am curious if a series of interest will come out in the end.

Bonjour tristesse

Babysitting this morning.

In the palm house of the botanical garden lives a family of water dragons. They are very patient when photographers come.

My beloved miniature world. Again.

Sunrise at the foot of the Siebengebirge