On Jul 29, 2008, at 20:30, Rick Womer wrote: > In Berlin, near the Reichstag, stand two beautiful modern office > buildings, for the Bundestag (Parliament). > > As noted in a previous post, the building here stands in the former > "killing ground" of the Berlin Wall. The seven crosses in the left > foreground memorialize the seven young men who died trying to swim > across the canal to freedom, having scaled the Wall. > > As a "child of the 60's", I find the reunification of Germany, and > the creation of beauty at the site of brutality, to be wonderful > things. Herewith my meager photographic effort. > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7618249&size=lg > > K10D, DA 10-17 fisheye, ISO 100, f/8 at 1/500, RAW via LR. > > My earlier photo of the same site is here, but I like the new one > better: > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7568895&size=lg >
It is difficult to fathom how much it has changed since I was last there in February of 1982! Nice pictures. A favorite photo of mine from Berlin (I don't know how well this then-17-year-old photographer caught it), is this sign that used to be in front of the Brandenburg Gate which says: "Achtung: Sie Verlassen jetzt West-Berlin" (Attention, you are now leaving West Berlin) and underneath that, someone has written: "Wie Denn" (loosely translated: "Oh yeah? How?") http://charles.robinsontwins.org/photogal/pretty/brandenburg_gate_berlin.jpg Fantastic city - I can't wait to get back and see it again. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
