IMG: Berlin - some modern and inhuman architecture
- From: Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp@xxxxxx>
- To: Leica Users Group <lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, LEG <leica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, LeicaReflex <LeicaReflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:59:13 +0200
Hello all,
some more shots of Berlin form the day after we met the Hoppies (GeofF
and Bron Hopkinson from Australia).
Mostly shot in rotten weather - it rained nearly all day - so they look
better (IMO) in black and white.
A stallholder on the Sunday fleamarket in the centre of Berlin
resolutely waiting for the rain to stop
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_Berlin__MG_9836.jpg.html
Tiergarten S-Bahn station in the rain
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_Berlin__MG_9841.jpg.html
The top level of the new station
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_Berlin__MG_9843.jpg.html
Inside the station
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_Berlin__MG_9845.jpg.html
The new station is incredibly modern, lots of metal and glass, and on
four levels. My knees turn to jelly when I look over the balustrade to
see the platforms of the lowest level about 40 metres below.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_Berlin__MG_9847.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_Berlin__MG_9849.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_Berlin__MG_9850-Edit.jpg.html
A most confusing place, if you are in a hurry to catch a train you have
no chance of finding out where it is, but at least you can watch it
leaving without you
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_Berlin__MG_9851-Edit.jpg.html
Almost on the ground floor that leads out to the River Spree and the
federal government quarter
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_Berlin__MG_9854.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_Berlin__MG_9856.jpg.html
I get the impression it wasn't built for people - the perspectives are
somehow alien and the lighting is all wrong,
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_Berlin__MG_9858-Edit.jpg.html
and trains coming in over your head don't make it better
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_Berlin__MG_9859.jpg.html
It even looks threatening from outside
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_Berlin__MG_9872.jpg.html
The neighbourhood is pretty desolate too
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_Berlin__MG_9880.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_Berlin__MG_9882.jpg.html
But, sometimes, you get a touch of the old fashioned like this,
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_Berlin__MG_9886.jpg.html
and a view across to the East German lollipop on Alexander Platz
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_Berlin__MG_9890.jpg.html
Cheers
Douglas
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