Dan’s Polaroids

One instant photo a day.

19.05.2026

A singer with eyes closed, singing behind a microphone. #

Recording and rehearsal.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

18.05.2026

A puzzle of a turtle underwater. #

Finished another side project.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

17.05.2026

Me and my SX-70 partially visible in a narrow kitchen mirror inside a wooden hut. #

We said goodbye to the cozy little hut we occupied for the weekend.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
B&W 600

16.05.2026

A view of the Rhine from a hillside with a castle and a child in the foreground and a little town in the background. #

More hiking and more views today.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
B&W 600

15.05.2026

A field with a leafless tree on top and big summer clouds in the sky. #

We hiked a little.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
B&W 600

14.05.2026

Part of a roof of a hut photographed from inside through a window. #

Hut view.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
B&W 600

11.05.2026

The Zeitfeld in Düsseldorf. Multiple clocks on a lamppost in a park. #

Zeitfeld

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
B&W 600

08.05.2026

A tree with the setting sun shining through. #

Balcony sunset.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
B&W 600

07.05.2026

An image of a round detached German Kiosk at a cobblestone street. #

Büdchen

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
B&W 600

06.05.2026

My singlespeed bike leaning against a container with my shadow on top. #

SX-70 silhouette.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
B&W 600

05.05.2026

A building with old-school advertising saying Cameras and Filme. #

Cameras und Filme

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
B&W 600

04.05.2026

Two monkeys sitting on a ledge next to some ropes. #

In a bit of a creative rut. So this is from the Zoo archive.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
B&W 600

03.05.2026

A b&w photo of highrise building in front of a cloudless sky. #

GAP 15

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
B&W 600

02.05.2026

A ad column with poster for live gigs and a house in the background. #

Playing with Forkalyst at Haus Spilles in Düsseldorf Benrath.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
B&W 600

01.05.2026

Two Neapolitan pizzas on a round table. A child slicing their pizza. #

It was pizza Friday again.

Camera:
Go
Film:
Go

30.04.2026

A white building with pillars, illuminated by the evening sun. #

Walking around Düsseldorf.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

29.04.2026

It’s the three men of Forkalyst again, photographed in front of a white wall with a thick window. #

The obligatory weekly Forkalyst band Polaroid.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

28.04.2026

A badge, a T-Shirt, a bag, and stickers photographed from above. #

A btconf collage.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
B&W 600

27.04.2026

The Capitol Theater in Düsseldorf with a large group of people standing in front of it. #

At Beyond Tellerrand conference.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

26.04.2026

The top of a larger building illuminated by sunlight, shot through a window. #

The sun sets on Kaufhof.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

25.04.2026

Barriers in yellow, red and white, fencing off a path an stairs between some grass. #

Barriers

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

24.04.2026

A man sitting on the other side of a sidewalk table with food on it. #

Lunch with Schepp.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

23.04.2026

Five people sitting behind a table with a board game on it. #

An evening at Meeple und Macchiato playing Viticulture.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

22.04.2026

The three men of Forkalyst looking up into the camera. #

Hello! It’s us again.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

21.04.2026

Three men sitting behind a table looking into the camera. #

The Homebrew Website Club DUS April 2026.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

20.04.2026

A little Marshall Emberton II speaker on a window sill. #

Our lovely little Emberton II speaker.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

19.04.2026

A child sliding down a slide. #

We had a good time today at Clip’n’Climb.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

18.04.2026

A multilane highway surrounded by walls and trees. #

Münchner Straße

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

17.04.2026

A hand pointing to its wearer’s shirt, saying The Haunted made me do it. #

Band shirt Friday

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

16.04.2026

The front of a white van, photographed from the right side. The top of a bamboo fence in front. #

Spotted this van.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

15.04.2026

Me in a tight-corner mirror. #

I wandered outside today.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

14.04.2026

The book Alea Aquarius in my hand. #

Alea Aquarius is what we’re reading to Zoe. It’s part 3. The thickest, yet.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

13.04.2026

Me from nose to knees in a bathroom mirror with some towels and a cupboard. #

Still sick. Still stuck at home. Mostly in bed.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

12.04.2026

A fridge door, open. There‘s a few packs of Polaroid film to see. #

Our fridge currently always needs to have enough space for all the film.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

11.04.2026

A jeans and a jacket hanging from a wardrobe. #

I’m sick. This is the jeans hanging from the wardrobe next to the bed.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
B&W 600

10.04.2026

A child kneeling on the floor making pencil marks on wood. #

Some serious planning going on.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

09.04.2026

The sun and a blue sky with lots of contrails looking like sun rays. #

Sun rays!?

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

08.04.2026

A black and white image of the top of a leafless tree. #

The tree at the rehearsal space.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
B&W 600

07.04.2026

A child on a bike, photographed from behind on a bike, cycling on a path surrounded by bushes. #

Bringing Zoe to „Ponycamp“.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

06.04.2026

A bowl of muesli and a mug of coffee on a sunlit side table. #

Sunny balcony means sunny breakfast.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
B&W 600

05.04.2026

A kid with a bunny decoration searching for Easter eggs amongst garden plants. #

On Easter egg hunt.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

04.04.2026

A b&w image of a sitting meerkat. #

One more from the zoo.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
B&W 600

03.04.2026

“A b&w image of a chimpanzee child on the back of its mother.” #

“@ ZOOM Gelsenkirchen”

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
B&W 600

02.04.2026

Colour photo of a wooden floor covered in toys. #

Just the usual chaos.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

01.04.2026

A high contrast b&w image of my bike leaning against parts of a building with the number 161. #

Back at Studio 161

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
B&W 600

31.03.2026

A black and white image of a small plant, shot from overhead, looking fairly abstract. #

Window sill plant

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
B&W 600

30.03.2026

A man playing a King V with tribals. #

Back in the day, when Laurenz was still in Slayer.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

29.03.2026

A person getting a beer from a bag hung outside a window. #

Daring outside fridge.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

28.03.2026

The two guitarist of Resurrected live on stage. #

Resurrected live @ Sojus7 Monheim

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

27.03.2026

A pizza in an oven. #

It was pizza Friday.

Camera:
Go
Film:
Go

26.03.2026

A parking lot with a sign saying Generalmusikdirektor. #

GENERALMUSIKDIREKTOR

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

25.03.2026

Two men. On holding the other's head in his arms. #

<3

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

24.03.2026

Playful arranged large letters spelling #

Playground

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

23.03.2026

A vinyl sleeve on top of a record play, showing The Crown's Hell is Here album. #

I was gifted the vinyl of one of my favourite albums.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

22.03.2026

Parts of a bike. Mostly focusing on the handlebars, photographed from behind the bike. The saddle in the foreground. #

Put back the straight handlebars. No more bull horns.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
B&W 600

21.03.2026

Me and a friend smiling into the camera, holding DVDs of #

Full of mad anticipation for our trashy movie night.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

20.03.2026

Selfie of me and Zoe, skating. #

You don't see it, but we're both skating. :)

Camera:
Go
Film:
Go

19.03.2026

A life-sized cutout of Michael Schumacher. The face is pure white, because of the reflection of the camera's flash. #

Reflection

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

18.03.2026

A girl on a little pink skateboard from behing. In the sun. #

The sun's out. Time for some skateboarding.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

17.03.2026

3 men and 1 woman standing in front of a black background, looking into the camera. #

Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf, March 2026.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

16.03.2026

A shrine of Ferrari and Michael Schumacher memorabilia. #

At "Da Ciro" with its impressive Michael Schumacher memorabilia.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

15.03.2026

Photo of a torso of a guitarist on stage. Next to him and in the background, further musicians are partly seen. #

"These Are The Days" live @ Pitcher Düsseldorf.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

14.03.2026

Black and white image from a car to the outside. Cars in the rain outside and building in the rear view mirror. #

"...hier schon wieder tief tanja mit sieben grad graupelschauer..."

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
B&W 600

13.03.2026

A black and white image of a cheeseburger on a plate. #

It was Burger Friday.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
B&W 600

12.03.2026

A girl with sunglasses in front of bamboo bush, in a very contrasty and rather dark black and white photo. #

Zoe and the bamboo.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
B&W 600

11.03.2026

A white sphere-like shape with texture, lit on the right half, looking similar to the moon. #

?

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

10.03.2026

Black and white photo of three different beer cans hold into the camera by the guys of Forkalyst, which are themselves barely present on the picture. #

What can I say? We rehearsed. We had beer.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
B&W 600

09.03.2026

View from higher up over trees, a street and a factory with 2 chimneys in the sun. Silhouettes of people walking in the foreground. #

A view from Halde Hoheward.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
B&W 600

08.03.2026

Two men with sunglasses looking into the camera. The sculpture of Halde Hoheward. #

Spent a wonderfully sunny day at Halde Hoheward with Florian.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
B&W 600

07.03.2026

The Rheinturm in Düsseldorf in black and white. #

Rheinturm

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
B&W 600

06.03.2026

The river Rhine in Bonn. In sunshine. A plant in the forefround, a bridge in the back. #

The Rhine in Bonn.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

05.03.2026

Two men sitting in the sun, looking into the camera and cheers-ing with the photographer with glasses of beer. #

First beers in the sun. @ Biergarten Alter Zoll, Bonn.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

04.03.2026

The three men of Forkalyst standing in front of a guitar amp, one seemingly explaining something to other two. #

"Ach, so ist lauter?!"

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
B&W 600

03.03.2026

A slightly overexposed image of my shadow projected onto a tree trunk. More trees and buildings in the background. #

Me on overexposed tree.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

02.03.2026

A speedy cyclist in the low evening sun. Parts of a bike in the foreground. #

Speedy

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

01.03.2026

A pond reflecting the leafless trees standing behind it. A bridge in the background. #

Saw this during our bicycle tour around the Rhine.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
B&W 600

28.02.2026

An iPad on a kitchen counter showing a video of president Trump's speach anouncing the war on Iran. #

Fuck this guy!

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
B&W 600

27.02.2026

The head of a white unicorn with a golden horn. Blue-hour windows in the background. #

Kindermuseumsnacht

Camera:
Go
Film:
Go

26.02.2026

A little indoor baskeball basket and a ball about to fall in. #

Indoor-Basketballing

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

25.02.2026

The three men of Forkalyst playing a keyboard. All have hats on. #

Wacky Wednesday

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

24.02.2026

A sunset with clear skies, building silhouettes in the back and a river down at the front. #

Sunset and high water.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

23.02.2026

A photo of my SX-70 camera in my hand. #

Meet the camera: my SX-70.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

22.02.2026

A black & white photo of a Jazz bass, a bass cabinet and a pedalboard. #

Bass gear

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
B&W 600

21.02.2026

A girl playing a wooden piano photographed from behing. #

Piano in the morning

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

20.02.2026

A leafless tree in front of a white background. #

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
B&W 600

19.02.2026

Three and a half men and one woman looking into the camera smiling in front of a black background. #

Homebrew Website Club February 2026

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

18.02.2026

An abstract photo with a glass surface on a wooden stand. #

Blurry abstract

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

17.02.2026

Holding my iPad with both hands in my lab, playing the game #

Playing "Skate City".

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

16.02.2026

Men in black red yellow costumes on stilts. #

Rosenmontag in Ratingen. Those guys were very impressive!

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

15.02.2026

A football field in the morning sun. Long shadows of trees and myself projecting onto it. #

Stopped at the football field during the sunny morning bike ride.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

14.02.2026

Holding the soles of our shoes into the camera, you can see lots of confetti and other colourful stuff on there. #

Our sticky soles after being part of the child carneval procession.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

13.02.2026

A photo of our white Polaroid Go camera. #

Lost the photos I took with this camera. :( So, here's just the cam.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

12.02.2026

A child in a black and blue cheerleader dress holding its black pompoms in front of the face. #

It's Carneval!

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

11.02.2026

A photo of my Fuji X100s camera with a UV filter in front of the lens. #

Reactivated my X100s. Bought a new UV filter as protection.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

10.02.2026

A cupboard with a laptop and an audio interface in a rehearsal space. A bass guitar and amps next to it. #

Recording

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

09.02.2026

Me with a venician carneval mask on in red and black. #

Fooling around.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

08.02.2026

A medieval tower and part of a wall in sunshine with a tree and its shadows. #

In Ratingen for a birthday celebration.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

07.02.2026

My black V-shaped guitar on my black desk. Guitar string packaging and tools around it. #

Restringing the guitar for tonight's gig in Aachen.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

06.02.2026

Handlebars of a holland bike. In the background a path with vegetation on both sides and a motorhome on the left. #

Cycling in the rain. And the Polaroid got messed up in my pocket.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

05.02.2026

A woman on a latter behind a fence with a camera in hand, looking into the camera. #

I was photographed today.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

04.02.2026

The three men of Forkalyst sitting on a sofa. With beer cans in hand. #

Wednesdays

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

03.02.2026

A photo of the EHX Silencer pedal on a pedalboard. #

New (but not very exciting) pedal day.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

02.02.2026

A close up of a small part of a black desk from overhead. You see parts of a black trackpad, one half of a black split keyboard and pen and pape. #

Desk

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

01.02.2026

A child sitting alone in a museum. #

At the Kunstpalast for "DIE GEHEIME MACHT DER DÜFTE".

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

31.01.2026

A man with headphones on sitting in front of a computer, looking back at the camera. #

Forkalyst recording session with Phil.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

30.01.2026

A close-up photo of the Polaroid Impulse AF camera in my hand. #

Meet the camera: my Polaroid Impulse AF

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

29.01.2026

Me, photographed from the side, sitting at my desk and looking into the camera. Cupboard with cameras and speakers in the background. #

Evening computer time.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

28.01.2026

The three men of the band Forkalyst being silly, looking into the camera. #

Rehearsal, Rehearsal, Rehearsal. Recording on Saturday.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

27.01.2026

A single-row guitar pedalboard with three pedal on it. Shot from above. Cable and other stuff lying around it on the wooden floor. #

Pedalboard preparation

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

26.01.2026

A child mid-air from the side. On the left two adult hands holding the child's hands. In the background a cupboard with a TV and record player. #

Evening performance. Tricky to time.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

25.01.2026

A basket of bread rolls and #

Sunday breakfast.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

24.01.2026

Holding my tiny blue plastic RETO Ultra Wide and Slim camera at arms length. #

One of my favourite cameras. The RETO Ultra Wide & Slim.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

23.01.2026

A cup. Backlit in front of a window. On top, an Aeropress coffee maker. #

Making coffee with the Aeropress.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

22.01.2026

Three men and one woman looking into the camera smiling in front of a black background. #

Homebrew Website Club January 2026

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

21.01.2026

The three men of the band Forkalyst being silly, looking into the camera. #

Forkalyst rehearsal

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

20.01.2026

A King-V shaped B.C. Rich guitar leaned against a high step. Lots of cables lying around. 3 bottles of beer on the step, as well as a small part of a drumkit and an amp head in the background. #

Another rehearsal.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

19.01.2026

Selfprotrait of me in the mirror with my SX-70 camera, only one eye peaking from behing the camera, the other half of my face covered by the camera. #

Just meee and my SX seventyyy.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

18.01.2026

A child with a table full of hot-glueing colourful ball onto a t-shirt. #

We started on our costumes for the school Karneval. We ran out of glue.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

17.01.2026

The side of a multi-story house, colourfully painted with small houses in comic style. #

Went to Bilk with Zoe for shopping, errands, library, fries and ice cream.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

16.01.2026

Inside a greenhouse with a narrow path in the middle and small plants in pots to either side. #

Grow grow, little plants!

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

15.01.2026

Overall dark (blue) image. The sky in the upper 3/4ths, the ground below. A large leafless tree fills the frame. A stone square with a cross on it stands on the ground in front of the much large tree. #

It's dark in the mornings.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

14.01.2026

A white fabric with colourful thin vertical lines. From the left, one in red, one in orange, then yellow, green and blue. You can spot the occasional water drop. #

Just matching the theme of this site.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

13.01.2026

The faces and upper bodies of five men looking into the camera. In the background a wall tighly covered in concert posters. #

Rehearsal with Brutal Unrest.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

12.01.2026

Circus artists in a bright red illuminated typical round stage. You can see parts of the audience behind, next to the stage, and in front - as silhouettes - as well as some stage lights. #

That was a pretty impressive afternoon at the circus.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

11.01.2026

A white boulder wall with green grips on the left side. 50cm from the wall to the right, the lower half of a child is hanging supposedly in mid-air. #

We went to the boulder hall today.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

10.01.2026

An old house on a hill surrounded by leafless trees. Above is a blue sky with a contrail coming in from the left, ending right above the house. #

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

09.01.2026

A quasi-neon sign of a car wash Mr. Wash advertising their happy hour '2nd wash, half price' (in German). #

2nd wash, half price.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

08.01.2026

The river Rhine shot from a bridge, which you see a piece of railing in the bottom right. You see the snow covered shore and the horizon behind that in the upper third of the image. The front half of a ship is coming in from the left. #

Bridges are cool.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

07.01.2026

Rows of plant pots covered in snow fading into the background. #

I think it's too cold for Polaroids to develop properly.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

06.01.2026

Multiple greenhouses with snow on the roof. A fence in the foreground, trees in the background. Everything is covered in snow. #

Ice cold winterland.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

05.01.2026

A reflection of me in a large christmas tree ball. Twigs surrounding it. #

A toppled christmas tree.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

04.01.2026

A girl in pink snow clothing on a tiny sledge. A woman on a wooden sledge behind here. Snow and trees all around. #

A day in the snow.

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600

03.01.2026

A rectangular pizza photographed from the side. A pizza slicer blurred in the background. #

Finally a day without agenda. Stayed home all day. Made pizza.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

02.01.2026

From the driver's seat, photographing the adjacent red car, which has snow on the top and the window. #

It snowed today. And I was driving again, as so often these past days.

Camera:
SX-70
Film:
Color 600

01.01.2026

A group of five friends, photographed with flash. #

A happy new year!

Camera:
Impulse AF
Film:
Color 600