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Abandoned monastery somewhere in Germany. What stories could these walls tell us?

A fabulous tunnel in the park of the famous Mateus vineyard in Portugal. One of my last analogue photography. Taken in 1999, scanned in 2009.

another old analogue picture. it is fun to find them again

This was taken for putting pictures of our lab stuff on the lockers ;-)

Built in 1866. Abandoned since 1991.

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...

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.

My beloved miniature world. Again.

A subject that I wanted to photograph a long time. (Article) A toadstool. When I found this beautiful specimen, I had only the mobile phone camera with me and when I came back with the SLR, the fungus was no more so nice. Normally I edit the photos for selective color with Photoshop, but since I had the photo already on the phone, I am using the app "Color Effects". Original is in the Box. As I have just created the album , I noticed how often I've worked with selective color. I would not have thought of that!

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

The resolution of yesterday's macro quiz: It is melting snow on the front shield of my car illuminated by a street lamp (It was still dark when I left the house). Today: A bud of a hazel.

The theme of the tree project is "tree without leaves". That suits well, because here is no tree with leaves, because it is winter. So I could stop on the way home and photograph any tree on the roadside. However, the picture was so boring that I have a bit of messing around with effects.

For the Sunday Challenge: "Pick 3 of something, whatever subject you want 3 buttons 3 glasses 3 banana's 3 people 3 snowmen etc. they can be matching or not... it doesn't matter, as long as the item is the same. Now the challenge bit is to have your picture focused on only 1 of your items and do some magic you have learned here, b&w, s/c, manual focus, that sort of thing. So it's like a twofer this week ~ twofer: two for the price of 1" I took 3 volumetric flasks and filled them with colored water. I used the manual focus and (of course) the selective coloring. I know, it is friday, but I will be without internet for one week, because I go skiing with 130 twelve year olds so I´m able to upload my picture today. For my 365 day project I will take pictures every day and post them, when I´m back. Let´s go into the snow ...

Take a picture of a stranger. It was a glorious day of skiing. It was a big challenge to me to photograph a stranger. Here I was able to do so, as if the landscape was the subject. What I like about the image is that he just turns around. I did´t process the picture, because I believe that the mountains set the skier well staged. I hope I have become the task.

Waiting for spring.