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The Brandenburg Gate (German: Brandenburger Tor is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin, built on the orders of Prussian king Frederick William II after restoring the Orangist power by suppressing the Dutch popular unrest. One of the best-known landmarks of Germany, it was built on the site of a former city gate that marked the start of the road from Berlin to the town of Brandenburg an der Havel, which used to be the capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg.
It is located in the western part of the city centre of Berlin within Mitte, at the junction of Unter den Linden and Ebertstraße, immediately west of the Pariser Platz. One block to the north stands the Reichstag building, which houses the German parliament (Bundestag). The gate is the monumental entry to Unter den Linden, a boulevard of linden trees which led directly to the royal City Palace of the Prussian monarchs.
Throughout its existence, the Brandenburg Gate was often a site for major historical events and is today considered not only as a symbol of the tumultuous histories of Germany and Europe, but also of European unity and peace.
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A macro lens brings you close to small subjects. Sometimes it also brings you close to huge subjects – when you use it as a short telephoto lens ;) And you won't get much closer to the iconic tower ball / orb of Berlin's TV tower unless you are in a helicopter, or you are one of those daredevil window washers who clean windows in the highest heights. No job for me, because I am a little afraid of heights. How strong my vertigo will be depends on the circumstances, such as high railings and enough space to retreat. The less space I have (narrow, winding stairs), or low or no railings (God forbid!), the stronger it is. I hate to admit that, when my balcony parapet was replaced a few years ago, I refused to go out on the balcony as long as the new parapet had not been installed (and I only live on the second floor – pre WWII building with high ceilings, though). And so I sometimes dream that I am up there, right on top of the TV tower (and in my dreams it is at least twice as high as its already impressive 386 m / 1207,35 feet which make it the fourth tallest tower in Europe), and there is no railing at all and the space I'm on is a square of a mere 1x1 metres (3x3 feet), and I ask myself what on earth has brought me up there ;)
I took this photo from the Panorama Terrace (120 m / 393 inches above the ground) of the Park Inn Hotel which is right across the Fernsehturm. In the first comment you can see a wide-angle image taken with the Lumix LX100. Btw, the slowly rotating tower ball with its restaurant is 32 m / 104 feet in diameter.
Mit einem Makro-Objektiv kann man ganz kleine Dinge groß herausbringen, man kann aber auch sehr große Objekte nah heranholen, wenn man es als leichtes Tele verwendet. So wie hier auf der Aussichtsplattform des Park Inn Hotels den Berliner Fernsehturm – und näher wird man an die berühmte Kugel des Berliner Wahrzeichens kaum herankommen, außer man sitzt in einem Hubschrauber oder ist einer dieser waghalsigen Fensterputzer, die ihre Arbeit in höchsten Höhen verrichten. Keine Arbeit für mich, weil ich leichte Höhenangst habe. Wenn ich genügend Platz habe und z.B. das Geländer hoch genug ist, habe ich kaum Probleme, aber enge, gewundene Wendeltreppen (im Spandauer Juliusturm, z.B.) oder Übergänge, womoglich mit niedrigem (oder gar keinem!) Geländer sind schon eine ganz andere Angelegenheit. Als vor ein paar Jahren die Brüstung meines Balkons ausgetauscht wurde, bin ich erst wieder rausgegangen, als die neue installiert war – und ich wohne bloß im 2. Stock (Altbau, allerdings) ;) Und so finde ich mich in meinen Träumen manchmal da ganz oben wieder, oben auf dem Fernsehturm, nur dass er in meinem Traum immer mindestens doppelt so hoch ist wie seine ja bereits imposanten 368 Meter, und die Plattform, auf der ich stehe, ist gut 1x1 Meter "groß" und hat natürlich kein Geländer. Und dann frage ich mich, was ich da oben überhaupt mache ;)
Im 1. Kommentar findet Ihr eine Weitwinkel-Aufnahme, die ich am selben Abend mit der Lumix LX100 gemacht habe.
the three domes of the Berlin cathedral and the TV-tower. Berliners know about the irony. The tv-towwr was opened in 1969 under the former east, and communist leader Walter Ulbricht ( the Berlin wall was built under his leadership). When the tv-tower was opened , they have been shocked, because the sunlight is reflecting a cross on the ball, which is a view point restaurant , turning around one time in one hour. The Beriner have given it the nick name „Saint Walter“ since then. We can see it from almost every spot in the City. because it is located rigt in the geographic centre of Berlin. Happy friday to all! :)
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The Berliner Fernsehturm is a television tower in central Berlin, Germany.
Located in the Marien quarter (Marienviertel), close to Alexanderplatz in the locality and district of Mitte, the tower was constructed between 1965 and 1969 by the government of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). It was intended to be both a symbol of Communist power and of the city. It remains a landmark today, visible throughout the central and some suburban districts of Berlin. With its height of 368 metres (including antenna) it is the tallest structure in Germany, and the third-tallest structure in the European Union. When built it was the fourth-tallest freestanding structure in the world after the Ostankino Tower, the Empire State Building and The John Hancock Center.
The Fernsehturm (English: Television Tower) is a television tower in central Berlin, Germany.
Taken from Nördliche Monbijoubrücke bridge
Fernsehturm Berlin und der Berliner Dom
Views of Berlin at Potsdamer Square
Television Tower Berlin and Berlin Cathedral
Blick vom Museumsdach (ehemaliges Stadtschloss)
Berliner Fernsehturm
View from the museum roof (former city palace)
Berlin TV tower - Construction started 1965 ,
Completed 1969 , Height368.03 m (1,207.45 ft)
local bar located at the spree river and opposite of the famous bodemuseum. berlin summer night life.
The Berliner Fernsehturm or Fernsehturm Berlin is a television tower in central Berlin, Germany.
Located in the Marien quarter (Marienviertel), close to Alexanderplatz in the locality and district of Mitte, the tower was constructed between 1965 and 1969 by the government of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). It was intended to be both a symbol of Communist power and of the city. It remains a landmark today, visible throughout the central and some suburban districts of Berlin. With its height of 368 metres (including antenna) it is the tallest structure in Germany, and the third-tallest structure in the European Union. When built it was the fourth-tallest freestanding structure in the world after the Ostankino Tower, the Empire State Building and 875 North Michigan Avenue, then known as The John Hancock Center.
In addition to its main function as the location of several radio and television broadcasting stations, the building – internally known as "Fernmeldeturm 32" – serves as a viewing tower with observation deck including a bar at a height of 203 metres, as well as a rotating restaurant. Also, the Berlin TV Tower can be booked as a venue for events. The distinctive city landmark has undergone a radical, symbolic transformation: After German reunification, it changed from a politically charged, national symbol of the GDR into a citywide symbol of a reunited Berlin. Due to its universal and timeless design, it has increasingly been used as a trademark and is identified worldwide with Berlin and Germany. In 1979, the Berlin TV Tower received monument status by the GDR, a status which was perpetuated after the German reunification.
The tower has become one of the most prominent symbols of the country and is often in the establishing shot of films set in Berlin, alongside monuments such as the Brandenburg Gate, the Berlin Victory Column and the Reichstag building. It is also one of the ten most popular attractions in Germany with more than 1,000,000 visitors every year.
Da DB Cargo vor einigen Jahren alle 25 Loks der Baureihe 182 an Regio abgegeben hat kann man seit einiger Zeit alle 30 Minuten einen roten DB Taurus in Berlin fotografieren ;-) DB 182 001 rollt am 03.10.2016 mit dem RE 3117 Magdeburg (Hbf) - Frankfurt (Oder) am S-Bahn HP Jannowitzbrück in Richtung Osten vorbei.
Old but gold, taken on July 10th, 2005...
Panta rhei, everything flows... or rather melts, quite literally, because the second record-breaking heatwave of this summer has Europe firmly under control. But also in the original sense of the aphorism coined by Greek philosopher Simplikios (attributed to Heraklit), because this capture is very old, but still beautiful (I think), taken during a boat trip through Berlin way back in 2005 with my first digital (compact) camera, a Canon Digital IXUS, after a long break from photography. I've aligned the image in LR with the "guided upright" function, and spruced it up in Luminar 3 and ON1 Photo RAW for a punchier look.
I've always wanted to upload this capture one day, and when I stumbled upon it today in my archives, I thought it's both appropriate to illustrate the heatwave (and climatic change) and the fact that "Everything flows, nothing remains", because the Berliner Fernsehturm (Berlin TV Tower) which you see as a "melting" reflection in those windows is one of Berlin's most iconic landmarks, while the building the TV Tower was reflected in is long gone. What you see here were the windows of the "Palast der Republik" ("Palace of the Republic"), the seat of the former GDR's parliament, the "Volkskammer". The Palast der Republik, which was opened in 1976, was built on the site of the former Berlin City Palace, which had been torn down by the GDR government in 1950. Following the German Reunification in 1990, the Palast der Republik became vacant, and in 2003 the German Bundestag "voted for its demolition and the reconstruction of the Berlin Palace in its place" (Wikipedia). The Palast der Republik was knocked down between 2006 and 2008. In 2013, reconstruction work of the (New) Berlin Palace began, and the "old / new" Berlin Palace will be opened in 2020.
As I wrote above, this photo was taken in 2005 with my very first digital camera, a Canon Digital IXUS 500 sporting a whopping 5 megapixels :-). It was then that my interest in photography (very) slowly (re-)awoke from a deep slumber, but it wasn't until 2008 before I got my first proper DSLR, an Olympus E-520 (10 MP), and I was still mostly snapping away with it occasionally. In 2013 I joined Flickr, but it would still take another two years before things really started to get going. Today, photography is an important part of my life, a hobby that brings me joy and sparks my eagerness to learn and experiment every day. Which I owe to you and your wonderful inspiration, dear Flickr friends :-)
Alles fließt...
...und momentan zerfließt auch einiges unter der erneuten Hitzewelle. Heute stieß ich zufällig auf dieses sehr alte Foto, das ich 2005 während einer Bootstour auf der Spree mit meiner ersten digitalen Kamera, einer kleinen Canon Digital IXUS mit unglaublichen 5 Megapixeln, aufgenommen hatte. Ich wollte es immer mal hochladen.
Heute erschien mir das Foto nicht nur als geeignetes Symbol für Hitze und Klimawandel, weil der Fernsehturm wie Honig zu zerfließen scheint, sondern auch als gute Illustration des von Heraklit geprägten und von Simplikios in der uns heute bekannten Form weiter ausgeprägten Sinnbilds "Alles fließt, nichts bleibt, wie es war". Denn der Fernsehturm spiegelt sich hier in den Fenstern des Palasts der Republik, des ehemaligen Sitzes der DDR-Volkskammer. Nach 1990 war der auf dem Gelände des 1950 von der DDR-Führung abgerissenen Stadtschlosses erbaute und 1976 eröffnete Bau (Spitzname: Erichs Lampenladen) viele Jahre verwaist, bis der Bundestag 2003 beschloss, den Palast endgültig abzureißen und an seiner Stelle das alte Stadtschloss wieder aufzubauen, das nun 2020 eröffnen wird. Schließt sich hier ein Kreis? Wir werden sehen...
Technisches: Ich habe das Foto mit der "Upright-mit-Hilfslinien"-Funktion in LR gerade ausgerichtet und dann beschnitten und in Luminar 3 und ON1 Photo RAW aufgepeppt. Die 5 Megapixel sieht man ihm deutlich an, aber ich mag es trotzdem :-)
Last year I had the chance to visit one of the most spectacular viewpoints in Berlin. It is the roof top terrace of the Park Inn by Radisson at Alexanderplatz. In 120 meters over the streets, you have a fantastic view of the Berlin TV tower as well as various other famous buildings of the city like the Red Town Hall, St. Mary's Church, Reichstag Building and many more. The spot is quite hard to shoot, because there is a high railing and a fall protection net many meters before the actual edge of the building. That's why you have to go really high with the tripod.
May 2024 | Berlin
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The pink pipes are also a landmark of Berlin.
Berlin is built on a massive swamp, so when new construction projects are undertaken, a great deal of water has to be removed from the site before construction can begin. The pink pipes do this job and carry the water to one of the city’s many canals.
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Wait a minute. `Tis the season. But for asparagus?!? Not quite, is it? Some of you might recall my image of the Berlin Conference Hall (please see first comment) which has been nicknamed "Pregnant Oyster". So it's not surprising that the Berlin TV tower has been nicknamed as well. And that nickname is, you might have guessed it, "Telespargel": Tele (TV) Asparagus. (Real) Berliners, however, hardly ever use those nicknames. But who invented them? Where they made up for tourists? No one knows. Fact is that most Berliners, me included, call the TV Tower TV Tower, the Conference Hall Conference Hall and the Federal Chancellery (please see first comment as well), which allegedly has been nicknamed "Washing Machine" by the Berliners, goes by the name of Federal Chancellery.
The TV Tower is, at a height of 368 meters, Germany's tallest building and the fourth-tallest (English Wikipedia states it's the third-tallest) structure in Europe. It was built between 1965 and 1969 in the "International" architectural style. The GDR government erected it as a "symbol of Communist power and of Berlin" (Wikipedia), and it remains one of the most famous and well-known landmarks of Berlin. The red building with the square tower on the left is the town hall of Berlin, the "red city hall", German: Rotes Rathaus (that's a name every Berliner uses) and the church you can see on the right is the Marienkirche / St. Mary's Church.
This shot was taken handheld (thus not totally sharp) with the little Lumix from the panorama terrace of the Park Inn Hotel on Alexanderplatz (150 meters above the ground) during a freezing cold but otherwise wonderful Flickr meeting with Sabine.R,
Moni E, --Conrad-N--, Thomas Franke Photography, H. Roebke and mmsig in November. Sabine.R and I have been back up there this Tuesday, hoping we could use our tripods this time, but we were nearly blown away by an ice-cold, stormy wind. Tripods were entirely useless, even more than handheld was, so we got back down and looked for other subjects to shoot ;-)
Spargelzeit
Moment mal.... im Advent? Wie Ihr bestimmt wisst, haben zahlreiche Berliner Sehenswürdigkeiten Spitznamen. Vielleicht erinnert Ihr Euch an mein Foto von der "Schwangeren Auster" oder der "Waschmaschine" (siehe ersten Kommentar). Und der Berliner Fernsehturm bildet da keine Ausnahme im Spitznamenreigen und wurde, angeblich auch von den Berlinern, "Telespargel" getauft. Nun ist es allerdings so, dass kaum ein (echter) Berliner diese Spitznamen verwendet. Für uns ist der Fernsehturm der Fernsehturm, die Schwangere Auster die Kongresshalle und die Waschmaschine das Kanzleramt. Die Liste ließe sich fortsetzen ;-)
Der Fernsehturm wurde zwischen 1965 und 1969 von der DDR-Regierung im "Internationalen Stil" erbaut und ist mit 368 Metern das höchste Gebäude Deutschlands und das vierthöchste freistehende Gebäude Europas (lt. Wikipedia; die englischsprachige Wikipedia führt den Fernsehturm als Europas dritthöchstes Gebäude). Heute ist es eines der bekanntesten Wahrzeichen Berlins. Links im Bild seht Ihr das Rote Rathaus (das rote Gebäude mit dem rechteckigen Turm; es wird übrigens tatsächlich Rotes Rathaus genannt), rechts unten die Marienkirche.
Aufgenommen aus der Hand mit der kleinen Lumix (daher nicht völlig scharf) von der Aussichtsterrasse des Park Inns am Alexanderplatz in 150 m Höhe bei einem a...kalten, aber ansonsten sehr schönen Flickr-Treffen mit Sabine.R, Moni E, --Conrad-N--, Thomas Franke Photography, H. Roebke und mmsig Mitte November. Diesen Dienstag waren Sabine.R und ich noch einmal oben, in der Hoffnung, ein paar schöne Aufnahmen mit Stativ zu machen, aber dieses Mal hat uns ein eisiger, stürmischer Wind fast davongeweht. An das Aufstellen der Stative war überhaupt nicht zu denken, aus der Hand brachte es dieses Mal natürlich auch nichts, also sind wir wieder runter und haben uns andere Motive gesucht ;-)
just found another old one. will go out this week and try to shoot all those old pics again with my nikon. the fuji did quite ok though ;)
Blick vom Fernsehturm Berlin
View from the Television Tower Berlin
People's Friendship Fountain - Alexanderplatz
Für eine ausgefallene 182 sprang am 03.10.2016 die blitzeblanke 112 109 ein, als sie mit einem RE1 nach Frankfurt (Oder) das bekannteste Motiv an der Berliner Stadtbahn passiert. Am S-Bahnhof Jannowitzbrücke vorbei, bremst sich die Lok in den Ostbahnhof hinein.
Here is the promised "non-Christmassy" version of the Berlin TV Tower framed by the Ferris wheel (please see first comment). Taken with the m.zuiko 25mm F/1.8. Another weird format, neither 1:1, nor any of the usual formats. I wanted to crop it to 1:1, but that took away too much of the night sky (which I think is needed as a balance) or would have left the TV Tower in an odd position. In the original 4:3 format the tower was sort of centered, but not quite, and there was a big metal strut of the Ferris wheel's construction in the left corner of the frame which I found distracting. Photoshop's content-based healing tool produced surprisingly good results when I tried to remove the strut, but it still looked unnatural, the motion-blurred circled light trails looked kind of topsy-turvy where precision work would have been necessary, and I couldn't get it right with the cloning brush, either, so all I could do was to crop it. I decided to go strictly for the rule of thirds as far as the TV tower is concerned which yielded this weird format :-)
Soundtrack, if you like:
Rush, The Big Wheel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtjLMQFTnhI
The Who, Circles: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FeVTBLvPv8
Photowalk with Sabine.R, who has a similar capture in her stream.
Hier nun die versprochene "Weihnachts-freie" Version des Berliner Fernsehturms eingerahmt vom Riesenrad (siehe 1. Kommentar). Aufgenommen mit dem m.zuiko 25mm F/1.8. Wieder mal ein unübliches Format, nicht ganz 1:1 und auch sonst keins der gängigen Formate. Im 4:3-Original war der Fernsehturm fast in der Bildmitte, aber nur fast, und am linken Bildrand war eine der dicken Metallstreben der Riesenrad-Konstruktion zu sehen, die ich als störend empfand. Photoshops inhaltsbasiertes Korrekturwerkzeug (das Pflastersymbol) hat zwar erstaunlich gute Arbeit geleistet beim Versuch, das Metallteil wegzuretuschieren, aber die sehr exakten Rundungen der Lichtspuren waren einfach nicht hinzubekommen, auch nicht mit dem Klonstempel, also blieb mir nur, das Bild zu beschneiden. Ich habe mich hier, was die Position des Fernsehturms angeht, strikt an die Drittel-Regel gehalten; 1:1 hat mir, bei exakt platziertem Turm, zu viel vom Nachthimmel weggenommen, mit Nachthimmel wäre der Turm wieder seltsam platziert gewesen. Da blieb mir nur der Beschnitt auf dieses seltsame Format :-)
Begleitmusik, wenn Ihr mögt:
Rush, The Big Wheel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtjLMQFTnhI
The Who, Circles: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FeVTBLvPv8
Fotowalk mit Sabine.R, die ein ganz ähnliches Foto in ihrem Stream hat :-)
Ferris wheel at the Christmas market at the Neptunbrunnen (Neptune Fountain) on Alexanderplatz in Berlin-Mitte. Photographed from the back (outside the market area; at the market itself we had to get so close to the Ferris wheel, actually we had to stand right in front of it, that it was impossible to photograph it at a "normal" angle of view). Framed by the Ferris wheel are the Marienkirche (St. Mary's Church) and the Fernsehturm (TV Tower).
First attempts with the teeny tiny Laowa C-Dreamer 7.5mm F/2 ultra wide-angle prime lens. Most of the time I completey forgot that the lens is all manual, so I was happy to discover later at home that the rather accidental focus setting to "almost infinity" yielded sharp results. The Laowa obviously creates nice starburst effects, but is also very prone to the wildest flares (which you can see here on the left inside of the wheel), so it will be inevitable to remove the most irritating ones in Photoshop later as it's nearly impossible to avoid those flares in certain light situations.
I also took a capture with the m.zuiko 25mm F1.8 from this position which looks more abstract because I got considerably closer to the subject. That capture also looks less Christmassy (not at all, actually), because it shows just the Ferris wheel and the TV Tower; I will keep that for January ;-)
Photowalk with Sabine.R
Weihnachtszentrifuge
Riesenrad auf dem Weihnachtsmarkt am Neptunbrunnen / Alexanderplatz in Berlin-Mitte. Von hinten (außerhalb des Marktgeländes) aufgenommen, weil wir nur von dort genügend Abstand zum Riesenrad hatten. Von vorn mussten wir uns praktisch direkt davorstellen, um nicht störende Buden, Aufbauten etc. im Bild zu haben, das ging aber doch sehr zulasten eines "normalen" Blickwinkels. Eingerahmt vom Riesenrad seht Ihr die Marienkirche und den Fernsehturm.
Erste Gehversuche mit dem winzig kleinen Laowa C-Dreamer 7.5mm F/2 Ultraweitwinkel (von Sabine.R anerkennend - und natürlich mit Augenzwinkern - "Nuckelobjektiv" getauft). Die meiste Zeit hatte ich überhaupt nicht daran gedacht, dass das Objektiv komplett manuell ist und war zuhause dann überaus angenehm überrascht, dass die auch mehr zufällige Fokusstellung auf "fast unendlich" doch scharfe Resultate erzielt hatte. Offensichtlich zaubert das Laowa schöne Blendensterne, ist aber leider auch extrem anfällig für die wildesten Flares, hier zu sehen im linken Bereich innerhalb des Riesenrads. Da bleibt nur, das, was absolut stört, bei der Bearbeitung zu entfernen, da man die Flares in bestimmten Lichtsituationen schlicht nicht vermeiden kann.
Ich habe hier auch noch ein Foto mit dem m.zuiko 25mm F/1.8 gemacht, das aber abstrakter wirkt, weil ich mit der Normalbrennweite natürlich das Motiv viel näher ranbekommen habe. Da jenes Foto auch völlig "unweihnachtlich" ist, weil man nur einen Teil des Rades und den Fernsehturm sieht, hebe ich es mir für den Januar auf ;-)
Fotospaziergang mit Sabine.R. Der Weihnachtsmarkt am Alex war unsere Ausweich-Location für die Aussichtsterrasse des Park Inns, von der wir ja zuvor fast weggeweht worden waren.