Fernsehturm
I'm taking a break from my usual nature photography this week, to post some photos of Berlin, from my trip there 3 years ago, on November 2003. Me and my wife stayed there for only 4 days but we enjoyed it very much!
This is a photo of the Fernsehturm, captured from far away. It was originally a dull photo, so I toyed with the levels a lot to exaggerate the colors and intentionally enhanced the noise to make it more interesting, to me at least :-)
The Fernsehturm (German for "Television Tower") is a television tower in the centre of Berlin, Germany. It is a well-known landmark, close to Alexanderplatz. The tower was built between 1965 and 1969 by the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), and its image was used as a symbol of Berlin by the GDR administration. The tower is easily visible throughout the central districts of Berlin, and remains a symbol of the city.
The original total height of the tower was 365m, but after the installation of a new antenna in the 1990s, the height is now 368m. The Fernsehturm is the third largest structure in Europe, after Moscow's Ostankino Tower and Riga Radio and TV Tower. There is a visitor platform and a restaurant in the middle of the sphere. The visitor platform is at a height of about 204 meters above the ground. The restaurant, which rotates once every twenty minutes, is a few meters above the visitors platform. (Originally it turned once per hour; the speed was later doubled, and tripled following the tower's late 1990s renovation.)
Inside the shaft are two elevators for bringing visitors into the sphere section of the tower within 40 seconds.
- Source: Wikipedia (click the link for more info, including the "Pope's Revenge"!)
- Official site: www.berlinerfernsehturm.de
I regret not having enough time to go up there :-(
Fernsehturm
I'm taking a break from my usual nature photography this week, to post some photos of Berlin, from my trip there 3 years ago, on November 2003. Me and my wife stayed there for only 4 days but we enjoyed it very much!
This is a photo of the Fernsehturm, captured from far away. It was originally a dull photo, so I toyed with the levels a lot to exaggerate the colors and intentionally enhanced the noise to make it more interesting, to me at least :-)
The Fernsehturm (German for "Television Tower") is a television tower in the centre of Berlin, Germany. It is a well-known landmark, close to Alexanderplatz. The tower was built between 1965 and 1969 by the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), and its image was used as a symbol of Berlin by the GDR administration. The tower is easily visible throughout the central districts of Berlin, and remains a symbol of the city.
The original total height of the tower was 365m, but after the installation of a new antenna in the 1990s, the height is now 368m. The Fernsehturm is the third largest structure in Europe, after Moscow's Ostankino Tower and Riga Radio and TV Tower. There is a visitor platform and a restaurant in the middle of the sphere. The visitor platform is at a height of about 204 meters above the ground. The restaurant, which rotates once every twenty minutes, is a few meters above the visitors platform. (Originally it turned once per hour; the speed was later doubled, and tripled following the tower's late 1990s renovation.)
Inside the shaft are two elevators for bringing visitors into the sphere section of the tower within 40 seconds.
- Source: Wikipedia (click the link for more info, including the "Pope's Revenge"!)
- Official site: www.berlinerfernsehturm.de
I regret not having enough time to go up there :-(