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Bogensee…. from dictatorship to ruin…

August 31, 2019 by 53weeks

Quoting Wikipedia: “Bogensee is a small lake near Wandlitz in the German state of Brandenburg, located about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) north of the Berlin city limits. Bogensee is known for the nearby former summer retreat of Nazi minister Joseph Goebbels, located approximately 500 m (1,600 ft) northwest of the shore. The premises were dedicated to Goebbels by the Berlin city administration on the occasion of his 39th birthday in 1936; he had an extended country home erected at the site until 1939, including a private cinema, a bunker, and adjacent SS barracks. Co-financed by the UFA film […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: Berlin, Brandenburg, DDR, Dictatorship, Elmar, FDJ, Germany, Goebbels, History, Leica, Monochrome, Nazi, Rühmann, Reunification, Soviet, Stalin, Summilux, UFA, Wandlitz, Wende

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It’s been a while….

February 15, 2017 by 53weeks

….since I last posted anything. To be honest I’ve been searching (as ever) for a little inspiration for a new project lasting 53 weeks and I can’t seem to settle on that “one” subject. It’s not for the lack of ideas it’s just that that simply I don’t want to confine myself to one type of motive or one medium or one of whatever….. Therefore the next few posts will be of things that I’ve been shooting over the past […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: Analog, Analogue, Autumn, Beauty, Belrin, Business, City, Family, Film, Food, Fun, Germany, Herbst, History, Kodak, Leisure, Nature, Park, Portra, Potsdam, Rolleiflex, Sanssouci, Season, Travel, Zeiss

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Metamorphosis – Teufelsberg (Berlin)

August 30, 2016 by 53weeks

The Teufelsberg is an artificial hill in the middle of Berlin. It is made up of the rubble that was cleared out of the heavily bombed city after the war. It is the highest point in Berlin and lies in the former British sector. The British and the Americans built a listening post on the top so they could intercept messages far into the eastern sectors. After the wall came down the occupying powers withdrew and the numerous investment projects […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: Allies, Art, Berlin, Berlin Wall, Britain, Cold War, Culture, DDR, Exchange, GDR, Graffiti, History, Iron Curtain, Music, Politics, Rave, Russia, Spy, Subculture, Travel, USA

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Week Six – Fantasia….

February 10, 2016 by 53weeks

Nothing is as it seems…. Leica M9; Summilux 50; Summicron 35; Lightroom & NIK

Categories: Photography • Tags: Berlin, Culture, Dwarf, Entertainment, Fantasia, Friedrich, Friedrich Wilhelm II, Garden, History, Kingdom, Landscape, Leica, Music, Pfaueninsel, Photography, pop, Potsdam, Royalty, Travel

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Week 14 – Thomas

October 13, 2014 by 53weeks

Taken in the men’s sanatorium in Beelitz-Heilstätten. Fuji X-T1 Fujinon 56mm f1.2 Aperture & NIK  

Categories: Photography • Tags: Beelitz- Heilstätten, Berlin, Black and White, Derelict, Entertainment, Food, History, Portrait, Travel, Work

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Week 42 – The Hat Factory….

November 23, 2013 by 53weeks

….built in Luckenwalde by Erich Mendelsohn in 1923. Fujifilm X100 Fujinon f2 23mm Aperture and NIK

Categories: Photography • Tags: Architecture, Construction, Expressionism, History, Holocaust, Luckenwalde, persecution, Politics, Prisoner of War, Travel

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Week 40 – Kontrollpunkt Dreilinden–Drewitz (Checkpoint Bravo East)….

November 18, 2013 by 53weeks

….or what’s left of it. There is a museum here now to try to document the pain and the anguish as well as the hope, it lies in the middle of an industrial estate. Canon 5D Lensbaby with Sweet 35 (1,3) and Fisheye (2,4) Aperture and NIK

Categories: Photography • Tags: Cold War, Current Affairs, Family, Food, German Democratic Republic, History, JFK, Oppression, Travel, Weather

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Week 32 – I woz ere….

September 19, 2013 by 53weeks

…… and “ere” is Beelitz-Heilstätten if you fancy looking it up. I’ll probably be back in winter with snow and ice …. Fuji GA 645 PRO Fujinon 1:4 f=60mm Fuji Pro 400H (Expired) Epson Perfection V500

Categories: Photography • Tags: Analog, Derelict, Food, Health, History, Life, Old, Time, Tourism, Travel

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Week 11 – Schleizer Dreieck (Revisited)

April 11, 2013 by 53weeks

Continuing on the subject of cars …. Germany’s oldest natural (or temporary) race track. The Schleizer Dreieck (Triangle) has featured in my blog before, back in May 2011 (Week-19 – The Schleizer Triangle), this time on film, from a slightly different perspective and a month earlier in the year. Picture 1: Fuji GA 645 PRO Fujinon 1:4 f=60mm Fuji Pro 400H Epson Perfection V500   Pictures 2, 3 and 4 Zenza Bronica ETRS Zenzanon f1:2.8 75mm Fuji Pro 400H Epson […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: "Motor Racing", Cars, Culture, Food, History, Photography, Race, Speed, Sport, Travel

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Week 4 – Schloss Glienicke

February 19, 2013 by 53weeks

Took a stroll with the “Big Man” on the hunt for photo opportunities. Me with my Bronica and him with his Canon EOS 1000fn which we got from a flea market for just a few Euros. I spent a while at the beginning of the year thinking of a new subject for another 53 weeks of blogging and came to the conclusion that I was perhaps better off leaving it open to give me a little more freedom. Well to […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: Blogging, Camera, Children, Creative, Entertainment, Family, History, Life, News, Travel

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Week 52 – The Pyramid

January 15, 2013 by 53weeks

It’s not quite over yet…. but it will be soon. Round three? To be honest I’m not really sure. If I do do it, then it will definitely be in a different manner. What do you think? Should I stay or should I go? Zenza Bronica ETRS Zenzanon 75mm f 2.8 Kodak Portra 400 Epson Perfection V500

Categories: Photography • Tags: Cecilienhof, Cold, Culture, History, Life, Love, Park, Pyramid, Travel, Winter

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Week 47- St. George

December 16, 2012 by 53weeks

Fancy going out in Berlin of an evening and meeting up the English patron saint St. George!

Categories: Photography • Tags: Art, Christmas, Dragon, England, Family, History, Life, News, Saint, Travel

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Week 43 – The Eleventh Hour….

November 12, 2012 by 53weeks

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them. Taken from “For the Fallen” by Laurence Binyon 11th November 2012 Südwestfriedhof Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery (Stahnsdorf near Berlin)

Categories: Photography • Tags: Armistice, Family, History, News, Past, Peace, Pride, Remembrance, Soldier, Travel

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Week 36 – Time flies …. 1992 to 2012

September 26, 2012 by 53weeks

These two have been in the company for twenty years….. 

Categories: Photography • Tags: Age, Colleague, Entertainment, Family, History, Life, Money, News, Routine, Work

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Week 33 – Good Morning, Morning ….

September 4, 2012 by 53weeks

This somehow reminds me of a song I used to listen to when I was a kid. Mike Harding wrote “I was a penniless student wandering round Manchester, staying up all night in all-night cafes making a cup of coffee last for ever and arguing about life and politics through the night. This song is about the morning after when the sun came shouting into the city and, faintly delirious and high on the pure wonder of being alive, I […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: Culture, Entertainment, Family, History, Humour, Life, Mike Harding, Music, Student, Travel

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Week 32 – The Belvedere ….. again

August 28, 2012 by 53weeks

I’m being very lenient with myself this week, not only am I using the British definition of a week (i.e. Sunday to Saturday, instead of the German Monday to Sunday), but I’m also posting something for the second time (see week 1) albeit from a very different angle.

Categories: Photography • Tags: Culture, Health, History, Humour, Life, Summer, Sun, Time, Tourist, Travel

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Week 31 – Schlössernacht….

August 20, 2012 by 53weeks

or even the night of the palaces. This is an annual “cultural feast” during which the Sanssouci Park opens its gates to visitors well into the night. The palaces are ablaze with light and classical music resounds from every corner, this is rounded off with a fantastic firework display at midnight. We managed to sneak on the eve of the occasion while all was quiet for a quick nosey.

Categories: Photography • Tags: Art, Entertainment, Family, History, Life, Music, Neues Palais, News, Tourist, Travel

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Week 30 – Royal Enfield in the Royal City of Potsdam

August 13, 2012 by 53weeks

My mate’s just got a new bike……

Categories: Photography • Tags: Bike, Culture, Family, Friends, History, Home, Life, Retro, Technology, Travel

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Week 24 – The Sidecar (BMW R 75)

July 2, 2012 by 53weeks

You don’t see many of these on the roads today….. I was a little hasty on the trigger and published this week’s post before I had actually written anything. This BMW R 75 was built in 1941 and most probably served the Luftwaffe during this period. It is a rarity but the lucky owner recently managed to purchase the previous model as well. It’s a very large bike but incredibly quiet. Good luck with the collection! P.S. So this week’s […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: Army, History, Motorbike, Motorcycle, Politics, Society, Transport, Travel, War

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Week 17 – Lenin and the Little People

May 14, 2012 by 53weeks

I thought I’d continue the Soviet theme for another week. This is more or less all that remains of the former Red Army base, which after being cleared of all munitions is now a public park.

Categories: Photography • Tags: Children, Family, History, Life, Photo, Politics, religion, Russians, Spring, Travel

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Week 16 – Stalin’s Legacy

May 7, 2012 by 53weeks

It was rather fitting that I should find myself in this part of Berlin on this day, May the 1st of course being international labour day. It was here on the 17th of June 1953 that the workers of the newly formed GDR started their uprising against the fledgling socialist regime, primarily due to the increase of work quotas. The Soviets were called in and the “counter-revolution” was quashed with an official loss of 125 lives. From then on this […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: Education, Family, History, Life, Politics, religion, Revolution, Tower, Travel, War

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Week 13 – Musée du Louvre

April 16, 2012 by 53weeks

I’m not sure the lady painting would have been overly thrilled at having her picture taken (judging by the little card on the painting), but I saw this and thought it was just the perfect double for this week. The biggest challenge was trying to take it without having 15 tourists in the shot at the same time! Paris was great and we’ll be back, probably all four of us next time.

Categories: Photography • Tags: Family, Food, France, History, Life, Museum, National, Paris, Places, Travel

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Week 1 – Belvedere Palace

January 23, 2012 by 53weeks

Well here we go again, another 53 weeks lie ahead of us. If anything this next period will be more difficult than the first, if only because doing something again is often more difficult than setting out to do something the first time. They say you should start as you mean to go on, so at the last minute on the Sunday afternoon (before the light faded), I walked up to the Belvedere Palace to shoot this. I do hope […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: Belvedere, Culture, Expat, Family, History, New Project, Palace, Photo, Potsdam, Winter

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Week 19 – The Schleizer Triangle

May 16, 2011 by 53weeks

Schleiz’s claim to fame is one of the oldest “natural” race tracks in Germany. The first ever race took place on the 10th of June 1923, with the aim being to race as far as possible and as quickly as possible on five litres of fuel. The winner of the car race was Mr. Huldreich Heußer with a total distance of 87.3 km and an average of 41.4 km/h (which quite incidentally is similar to what I get out of […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 17-50mm, 50mm, 85mm, Aperture, Bank, Bench, Canon, Chair, Expat, Fahrer, Family, Foto, Fotos, Germany, Geschichte, History, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Months, Motorbike, Motorcycle, Motorrad, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Project, Race, Rennen, Rider, Schleiz, Schleizer Dreieck, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Sitz, Spring, Stunden, Tamron, Time, Triangle, Weeks, Wife, Years

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