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I celebrate completing year 6 with a reference to the pic I made to celebrate year 1: "365"

I think I should write something intelligent now. But what? I'm still here... after many streaks recently, not very motivated any more to be honest, because it feels like everybody is leaving, not many likes or comments on pics any more, Tookapic is dying slowly 😟 This is not the end I'd have wished to the platform and neither to my project. Probably I should have ended it one or two years ago to stop on the best level, but I didn't find the stop button 😇 So I'll have to continue until december 31 and my personal Nr. 2222, because with a series of streak pics is not how I want to leave this place!

If I look back on the past 6 years, I started this project spontaneously one evening after seeing @Paweł's Darth Vader project. And on the second day I forgot to take a pic. Aaaand... one of my big secrets here... I cheated. To keep up the streak. On day 2 😂 So changing the shooting date on a pic in Lightroom was the first thing I learned because of Tookapic. And the second was that I was only cheating myself. I am still aware of the fact that today is only day 363 of year 6. I never did it again. One second cheat I did some day when I uploaded a 'photo' made in Blender during a 3D-modelling course. But this is only a half cheat, because there you're taking pics with a virtual camera.

Besides this, several things I would never thought a digital photo project was able to do happened: _I found new virtual and real friends, even travelled over the Röstigraben to get to know real 'Welsches' and not just as a tourist _I showed some pics at an exhibition _started a photography course for the pupils of my school _I spent a lot of money in camera equipment (before Tookapic I was in team 'the camera doesn't matter') _I learned to take better pictures _I did a project with a writer _I learned how to postprocess them the way I want to _...

Thanks Tookapeople for being such a great community which helped me to remain motivated never to stop!