> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Rick Womer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
Personally, I like the newer one ('249) better. The overall emptiness
of the space contrasted with the handful of people in the deep
background and the person in the foreground give scale to the space and
the building. The emptiness of the space and the looming mass of the
building work in contrast to the diminutive scale of the crosses and
people. A sad, somewhat forlorn or contemplative mood, which seems
appropriate for that place.
Most of that stuff is there in the earlier photo ('895), but in much
smaller doses.
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Thanks,
DougF (KG4LMZ)
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