Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I enjoyed this series a whole lot. My favorites: > Starting at the Ged?chtniskirche: > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020062.html > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020119.html but most especially this image. I didn't read your descriptions first, I just looked at the images, but then I came back and read the caption and, of course, it changed it completely. > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020163.html I liked the pills too - excellent use of depth of field and color. There are many former East German athletes, especially the women, who are still paying big time for the performance enhancing drugs they were given. It's playing out even now in our high schools Very good series. Adam On 11/5/05, Philippe Orlent <philippe.orlent@pandora.be> wrote: > Thank you Eric, Don, Dick, Luis, Douglas and Ric for commenting on my > previous posted miniseries of our visit to Berlin. > > Meanwhile, I've had the time to edit all the shots I made during the 3 > wonderful days my wife and I spent there and I present you a selection of > them below. > All shots were made with my Digilux 2, RAW format at 100 ASA, full auto. > Always handheld, which in some cases lead to not 100% sharp images. > Sometimes extensive PS work, since you might know that I consider this an > equally important part of picture making/visualising in these digital days. > But that is a debate that I hope will not be held in this thread. > I hope you enjoy them. > > (if you don't like to read: the entire series is at > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/) > > 1. Day 1: Kaiser Wilhelm Ged?chtniskirche (close to the Zoo Bahnhof) + from > the Alexanderplatz over the Museum Insel to the Brandenburger Tor > > Starting at the Ged?chtniskirche: > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020062.html > > Very close to the Alexanderplatz (ex East Berlin) stands an impressive > tower: the Fernseh Turm (Television tower): > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020064.html > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020066.html > We didn't go to the top of it, since that would have meant waiting for an > hour or so, and we had other things to do. > > Between the Alexanderplatz and the Brandenburger Tor: the Museum Insel. > An 'island' packed with musea and monuments, such as the Berliner Dom > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020067.html > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020069.html > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020078.html > And the Altes Museum (the old museum): > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020071.html > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020073.html > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020076.html > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020077.html > > A bit further, almost at Unter Den Linden, the former central boulevard of > better Berlin, the Neue Wache. It started to get darker already at that > time, and the city light were put on: > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020079.html > > Finally, we arrived at the Brandenburger Tor, restaured in its former > glory. > 15 years ago, before the fall of the Berlin Wall, this site was completely > left at its own. Now it stands as a beacon again, in the center of the > town: > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020080.html > > On the Pariser Platz, which lies on the east side of the Tor, we had a > coffee in the caf? of the New Academy of Arts: > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020083.html > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020084.html > > And after that, we went back to our hotel to prepare for dinner: > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020087.html > > 2. Day 2: Potsdamer Platz and surroundings > > Potsdamer Platz was a waistland in the dim years between WW2 and some 15 > years ago. Now it is vibrating with life, and new and modern buildings pop > out at an incredible place. But sometimes you still can see a grim reminder > of how controlled the East Berliners were: > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020090.html > > We went to see the Martin Gropius Bau, where an international photography > exhibition was held, but the only spot one could take photographs was in > the > cafetaria: > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020095.html > > Walking in the direction of Chackpoint Charlie, an old East german building > still stood there, waiting to be renovated into expensive offices or lofts. > Not everybody likes luxury though: > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020096.html > > Proof of why the East German system delivered such fine athletes in a > certain period: there wasn't much else to do, and sports were heavily > promoted, wherever you lived: > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020104.html > > Meanwhile, cutting edge architecture at the Potsdamer Platz: > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020106.html > > And a, er, selfportrait: > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020113.html > > Back to the Zoo Station, where we also visited the Museum f?r Photographie. > A permanent exhibition and ode to Helmut Newton + some new talent. > Personally, I don't like Helmut Newton's work that much (it's as if he > hates > women), but it certainly was renewing in its days, and still is inspiring. > On the top floor, ni the old casino of the Wehrmacht, an impressive > exposition space with the work of young photographers. I liked the space > more that their work... > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020114.html > > We took the S-Bahn to the Hamburger Bahnhof, now the Museum for Gegenwart > (Modern Art), so I decided to do a B.D. style metro shot: > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020119.html > > The museum itself was impressive, even before entering: > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020124.html > > The entrance of the main hall: > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020126.html > > It was one of the only musea we visited in Berlin, where photography was > allowed (without flash, but we're Leica, so who cares :): > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020133.html > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020137.html > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020139.html > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020140.html > > The end of the left wing of the museum: > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020144.html > > And the walk back to the main hall: > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020148.html > > It is sometimes said that the modern artist needs drugs and pills to > produce > renewing work, and I think it's true: > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020153.html > > And after taking them, everything becomes a work of art: > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020155.html > > Leaving the museum, the artificial light turned the place into something > magical: > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020158.html > > So we took another coffee at the Museum cafe, where I spotted this 'reading > symmetry': > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020161.html > > 3. Day 3: the impressive and silencing day > > There are a lot of Jewish memorials in Berlin, for very obvious reasons, > but > IMO 2 stand out. > > One is the Jewish Memorial, a chilling and silencing place that makes you > feel just for a tiny bit, what the Jewish must have suffered between '39 > and > '45: > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020163.html > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020165.html > > The other one is the Jewish Museum, designed by Daniel Libeskind, one of my > most preferred contemporary architects. The Museum gives you, almost at any > spot, a feeling of total desorientation. Again to make clear to visitors > what it means to be rejected and haunted. I think Libeskind succeeded in > this: > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020172.html > > And to finish, in the Oranienburger Strasse another glass decoration, but > of > a different kind than the first one posted in this message: > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Berlin/pages/L1020173.html > > Thanks for looking, and if you're still up to it, commenting on these > images. > > Philippe > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >