Tag: Politics
The Seaside…. Part One
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Back to Jenny Brown’s point to visit Muffer……
Categories: Photography • Tags: Autumn, Children, Cooking, Culture, Death, environment, Family, Fear, Food, Grandchildren, Grandparents, Grange over Sands, Health, Jenny's Brown Point, Life, Offspring, Parents, Passing, Passion, Politics, religion, Sadness, Seaside, Season, Technology, Time, Travel
Salford Quays
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It’s changed a little bit since my first visit in the 1980s….. Leica M9; Summilux 50; Lightroom
Categories: Photography • Tags: 1980s, BBC, Culture, Deprevation, England, Family, Food, Industry, Leica, Manchester, Media, Photography, Politics, Regeneration, Restructuring, Rough, Salford, Shopping, Television, The North, Travel, Up North, VSCO
Metamorphosis – Teufelsberg (Berlin)
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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
Week 9 – Eva
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I don’t know if you happened to notice, but I’ve been a little bit busy lately….. Here’s Eva to make up for things! Canon 5D Lensbaby Composer Pro with Edge 80 Aperture, NIK and VSCO (Kodak Portra 160C)
Categories: Photography • Tags: Beauty, Berlin Air Show, Edge 80, Eyes, Family, Food, Lensbaby, Politics, Portrait, Work
Week 42 – The Hat Factory….
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….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
Week 39 – Checkpoint Bravo (West)…..
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…..otherwise know as “Grenzübergangsstelle Drewitz-Dreilinden” in the East. This week’s post continues the cold war theme. Rolleiflex 3.5 F (Mark III / IV) Carl Zeiss Planar 3.5f Kodak Portra 400 and Kodak T-Max 400 (Rodinal 1:50) Epson V500
Categories: Photography • Tags: Allies, Architecture, Cold War, East Germany, Family, Life, Politics, Time, Transit, Travel
Week 38 – Bridge of Spies
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The Glienicker Brücke divided West Berlin (US zone) and the GDR (Soviet zone), it was one of the few places along the Iron Curtain where the two super powers shared a border, hence it was here that they chose to exchange their spies. The most famous exchange took place on the 10th of February 1962, where Gary Powers the U2 pilot shot down over Soviet territory was exchanged for Vilyam “Willie” Genrikhovich Fisher who leaked US atomic secrets. Today, 24 […]
Categories: Photography • Tags: CIA, Cold War, Crisis, Iron Curtain, KGB, MI5, Politics, Spy, Stasi
Week 20 – Paris, City of Love …..
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The more astute of you will have noticed that I haven’t posted for a while, well after a long business trip and our annual summer holidays I’m back. I’ll do my best to catch up in the coming weeks… Fujifilm X100 Fujinon f2 23mm Aperture and NIK Sorry this was the romantic one!
Categories: Photography • Tags: Food, Gutter, Le Bourget, Love, News, Paris, Politics, Romance, Travel, Urban
Week 18 – Time to go….
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A good friend and colleague retired last week. Although we didn’t always see eye to eye, he will be remembered as one of the last pioneers, never accepting the boundaries we so often struggle to overcome. Canon 5D Canon f1.8 85mm Aperture and Yashica MAT 124G Yashinon f3.5 80mm Fuji Pro 400H
Categories: Photography • Tags: Career, Employment, Food, Job, Leisure, Politics, Portrait, Retire, Time, Travel
Week 14 – Green Trees ….
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There is much talk about the “Energy Turnaround” here, especially after Fukushima. I’ll leave it up to you to decide whether it’s beneficial to the environment or not…. I’m trying to rekindle my love with my Canon 5D at the moment and that coupled with my incompetence with my last roll of film means that you’re getting digital images remastered as Kodak Portra 400 nc (Natural Colour) this week. Canon 5D Canon f4 24-105 ISO 320 Aperture and Nik
Categories: Photography • Tags: Culture, Energy, environment, Green, Life, News, Politics, renewable, Tourist, Travel
Week 24 – The Sidecar (BMW R 75)
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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
Week 22 – This is art….
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This is a picture of the little people with a bridge covered in barrier tape ….
Categories: Photography • Tags: Art, Construction, Entertainment, Family, Fashion, News, Photo, Politics, religion, Travel
Week 17 – Lenin and the Little People
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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
Week 16 – Stalin’s Legacy
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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
