Back in Berlin on the Potsdamer Platz
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I’m back in Berlin and it’s COLD. I thought that I was going to be all Colorado tough here, but walking around all day in 32 degrees and drizzling with 90% humidity and 15mph wind has been leaving me feeling a bit soft. Especially when you see Germans riding bikes without gloves or hats; I even saw a jogger in shorts and a tshirt. They are either tough, crazy, or suffering too much with life to really notice.
In the morning I went for a walk around the neighborhood, checking out the local shops in this upper middle class neighborhood. These are pictures of two local churches. They are really tall!
I only lasted about an hour before I had to head home and put on some more jackets. I passed this little trailer on the way. Could this be my next photography business venture? I think it could work, I think deep inside all the guys in Boulder want to have glamor shots! I could park my trailer in the lot of Whole Foods.
In the evening we headed down to Potsdamer Platz. This is where the Jewish Memorial and Club Felix are from last week. But this time we had a little bit of daylight left to check out some other stuff. The Sony Center is pretty cool, there are lots of modern sculpture elements to shoot. This is the roof.
This is the floor.
This is the bench.
This is the bike rack. There are lots of bikes and bike lanes in Berlin. And lots of glazed over numb expressions.
This is a sculpture covered with drizzle. I feel like I’m in Portland. Except it’s colder. Somehow it can be 20 degrees here and yet still rain. I think it has something to do with chemicals in the atmosphere, but I could be wrong.
This is Debs and the chrome bear. High Fives!
We walked around for a while and eventually found Hitler’s bunker site. There was a sign (in German) marking the location with some pictures of what it looked like. But now it’s just a parking lot. I didn’t take a picture of it, they didn’t even bother to pave it.
Potsdamer Platz was destroyed during WWII and sat vacant for years. It was one of the dividing lines of The Wall between East and West. In recent years it is being rebuilt with lots of new buildings, shops, businesses, and restaurants. But not too far away on the east side there is still some communist era wreckage.
The tall cement buildings definitely gave me the Cold War vibe. Well that and the fact that it was 20 degrees and raining.
We walked past the British Embassy, which was rather plush. There are cool lit posts that drop into the street to let the cars through. I was disappointed to see that they aren’t driving Aston Martins.
Swinging around past the Jewish Memorial again . . . it’s really cool, and difficult to do justice in photos, since I can’t shoot around corners. The wide angle would be great here.
Here are the big skyscrapers of Potsdamer Platz lit up at night.
And a random little shot of a light fixture.
Love this one.
OK now back down underground onto the trains, heading home after another day being an American Tourist!
I also have my off camera flash with me. I was playing with it in one of the bars, thus the nice beer photo at the top of this post. Then I took an intentionally evil looking picture in my fisherman’s cap.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!! OK, I’ve gotta go, I’m off to see the wall!!!!!!
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omg.. good work, dude