water tower

when i turned around from the green door, that’s what i saw: the roof of the water tower at ostkreuz above other roofs

berlin friedrichshain, december 2016

the beam in thine own eye

found right at alexanderplatz, berlin mitte, 2016

code red

berlin, mitte, 2016

from above

stuff from above at ostkreuz, berlin friedrichshain, 2015

wandering eye

wandering in berlin, friedrichshain. august, 2015

eye without a face

street art from friedrichshain, berlin

swallowtail

from friedrichshain, berlin

the rear wheel of a schwalbe motorcycle. schwalbe is swallow (the bird) in english, hence the title. the schwalbe motorcycle manufactured by simson in suhl from 1964 to 1986 was (and in fact still is) very popular in eastern germany and rightly so.

smokers

detail of kraftwerk klingenberg in berlin lichtenberg.

street abstract II

from friedrichshain, berlin.

street abstract

from friedrichshain, berlin.

fisher island

and then quite some more of berlin

in the lower left corner the tower of the ‘rotes rathaus‘ (red city hall), on the right a small (but very substantial) part of the  fernsehturm at alexanderplatz. in the back left the heizkraftwerk lichterfelde with its three giant chimneys. smack in the middle the postbank tower in kreuzberg. on its right the gasometer in schöneberg  and between the gasometer and the tv tower in the far back the ‘steglitzer kreisel‘.

what? oh yes – fisher island: that’s the part with the white high-risers in the middle.

that was fun, maybe we should do this again some time :)

escalation

this is a detail of the sculpture tiger&turtle – magic mountain by heike mutter and ulrich genth in duisburg. i liked the backdrop a lot.

mirrow

from friedrichshain, berlin. shot with the e-p5 and the om zuiko 135 f2.8.  sometimes the compression that a tele lens can deliver simply rules.

and yes, mirrow is not a word. i made that up (but then found out there is of course already an app with that name …)