Dan’s Polaroids

One instant photo a day.

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.

07.03.2026

The Rheinturm in Düsseldorf in black and white. #

Rheinturm

06.03.2026

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

The Rhine in Bonn.

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.

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?!"

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.

02.03.2026

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

Speedy

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.

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!

27.02.2026

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

Kindermuseumsnacht

26.02.2026

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

Indoor-Basketballing

25.02.2026

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

Wacky Wednesday

24.02.2026

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

Sunset and high water.

23.02.2026

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

Meet the camera: my SX-70.

22.02.2026

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

Bass gear

21.02.2026

A girl playing a wooden piano photographed from behing. #

Piano in the morning

20.02.2026

A leafless tree in front of a white background. #

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

18.02.2026

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

Blurry abstract

17.02.2026

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

Playing "Skate City".

16.02.2026

Men in black red yellow costumes on stilts. #

Rosenmontag in Ratingen. Those guys were very impressive!

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.

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.

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.

12.02.2026

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

It's Carneval!

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.

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

09.02.2026

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

Fooling around.

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.

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.

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.

05.02.2026

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

I was photographed today.

04.02.2026

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

Wednesdays

03.02.2026

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

New (but not very exciting) pedal day.

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

01.02.2026

A child sitting along in a museum. #

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

31.01.2026

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

Forkalyst recording session with Phil.

30.01.2026

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

Meet the camera: my Polaroid Impulse AF

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.

28.01.2026

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

Rehearsal, Rehearsal, Rehearsal. Recording on Saturday.

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

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.

25.01.2026

A basket of bread rolls and #

Sunday breakfast.

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.

23.01.2026

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

Making coffee with the Aeropress.

22.01.2026

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

Homebrew Website Club January 2026

21.01.2026

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

Forkalyst rehearsal

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. #

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.

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.

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.

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.

05.01.2026

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

A toppled christmas tree.

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.

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.

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.

01.01.2026

A group of five friends, photographed with flash. #

A happy new year!