Photo Of The Day By Einat Zvirin

By Staff

Updated July 9, 2016

Photo by Einat Zvirin

Photo by Einat Zvirin

Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Tiled Bacteria” by Einat Zvirin.

“This dried-up creek bed ‘bloomed’ with green moss,” Zvirin explained.

Photo of the Day is chosen from various OP galleries, including Assignments, Your Favorite Places and the OP Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the OP website homepage and several images from the Assignment Gallery are picked to be featured in The Best Of Assignments section in the print magazine. To get your photos in the running, all you have to do is submit them.

Originally Published February 27, 2016

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