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    Behind the railway tracks (Berlin Alexanderplatz)

    (ISO 100, f8 @ 15mm, 4sec., 22:13) I passed by this place on the way home. Heard some angry voices coming out of this urban pocket. I wouldn’t have noticed the place otherwise but when I turned my head to see what they were up to, I was immediately drawn in. Two guys had a fight over something and then one of them got in the car (with the lights…

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    Breitscheidplatz, Berlin Charlottenburg

    (ISO 100, f8 @ 26mm, 1/13sec., 21:20) One of the most iconic places in Berlin and by some regarded as an awkward yet typical Berlin combination of the old and the new, the cultural and commercial. On the left there is a part of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, the highrise in the center houses offices, restaurants and the Berlin Waldorf-Astoria and on the right is one of the oldest…

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    Potsdamer Platz Station, Berlin Center

    (ISO 100, f4.5 @ 26mm, 0.6sec., 22:01) If there is one thing I love about Berlin, then it is the contrast in all possible ways. This image is in five minutes walking distance from the last one I posted (Matchbox) but literally it is worlds apart. I experimented with PS here, combining three shots in a smart layer stack and used the median filter to achieve a cleaner image. This…

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    Matchbox, Berlin Kreuzberg

    (ISO 200, f8 @ 38mm, 30sec., 20:43) This was my second try. When I came home with the first one I noticed it was blurred – a little. I’d shot it on a tripod of course. How could it be blurred? So when I went back I tried to do it right with some extra care and then I noticed the reason because it happened again. I heard some faint…

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    Craftmen’s alley, Völklingen Ironworks

    (ISO 100, f6.3 @ 35mm, 64sec., 21:39) A look into the Handwerkergasse (craftmen’s alley) of the Völklinger Hütte which is one of the locations of the European Centre for Art and Industrial Culture and also a branch of the Saar Art School. The old workshops have been turned into studios for art students today. The inscription on the boat says: “You who are climbing the deck on your own risk,…

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    Völklingen heritage site, view from the parking lot of a supermarket

    (ISO 100, f8 @ 35mm, 5sec., 21:10) Völklingen has a population of roughly 40.000. At the economic height in 1965 almost every second citizen was working for the iron works. 30 years later there were only 3.500 of those jobs left. Luckily the UNESCO declared Völklingen a World Heritage Site in 1994 which now attracts more than 200.000 visitors per year and makes the city the 2nd biggest center of…