markuslehr – Page 99

Bleilochtalsperre, Thuringia

(ISO 100, f8 @ 24mm, 1/10sec., 19:15) Build by thousands of workers between the years of 1926 and 1932 this is the biggest reservoir in Germany by volume. The dam is 65m high and 205m wide and holds 215 million cubic meters of water of the river Saale. The electricity from the power station is used for load balancing in the region of Thuringia.

Mannheim, Rhine harbour

(ISO 100, f5.6 @ 35mm, 30sec., 21:26) There was some heavy wind that night under the Kurt-Schumacher-Bridge. In listening distance a young lady was shouting in her mobile phone. Even louder than the noise coming down from the cars and lorries above. Shortly after I captured this image it started to rain, she closed her car door and I moved on to another location.

Yard #4, Berlin Marzahn

(ISO 100, f8 @ 28mm, 30sec., 23:25) This is my last shot from this location. I was on my way out here. The light all over this place is not from the sun, but from a monstrous floodlight, quite like the ones which were used on the inner German border during the cold war. A great source of light for night shooting of course but it felt a bit uncomfortable…

Cement plant, Berlin Spandau

(ISO 100, f7.1 @ 19mm, 30sec., 00:40) There is a well known principle in modernist architecture called “Form follows function“, if that is so, then I feel nothing than admiration for the function of this humble cement plant in Berlin Spandau.

Yard #3, Bitterfelder Straße, Berlin Marzahn

(ISO 100, f8 @ 28mm, 30sec., 23:22) One of those locations which unfold a whole different atmosphere at night. It looked like it had a long history of industrial use. The smoke stack – remnant of one of the previous businesses – was not in use any longer but luckily still there, a character of his own.

Building materials, yard, Nuremberg

(ISO 100, f8 @ 35mm, 30sec., 22:53) I have to admit I enjoyed these shadows a bit. The light came from the neighboring yard which seemed to contain more valuable goods than soil.

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