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Putlitzbruecke, Berlin Deutschland, Germany, fotoeins.com

Fotoeins Friday, Berlin 2025 (7): “Asian Food”

Why is an Asian food (“Asiatisches Lebensmittel”) warehouse outlet situated next to a waste- and recycling-facility? Circumstances couldn’t be helped? Microaggressions manifested as a passive-aggressive real-estate interaction?

Am I also complicit in white privilege?

I made the image above on 24 May 2025 with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime and these settings: 1/1000-sec, f/10, ISO1000, and 18.5/28mm focal length. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-vGg.

Nuremberg: Fuji(film)-Store

“Home of X Photography”

It’s a busy active crowded Saturday in Nuremberg’s city centre. There’s a big music festival with acts ranging in size from solo artists to 3-piece bands. But as I walk across town, I see a big Fujifilm sign, and as I approach, I can see this is no ordinary camera shop.

I learn there’s been a Fuji shop in the city for a number of years, and only this past February did they move to this new location. Judging by layout and the upstairs gallery, the Fuji shop has a feel similar to aLeica shop. That’s because the owner of Nuremberg’s Fuji-Store created the shop based on their experience operating the city’s Leica shop nearby. I chat with Peter, the gentleman in the shop about what’s out now and what else might be expected. We agree to a common wish: to have Fuji fill a current niche with a compact portable point-and-shoot at the right price point. How about an X80 product variant?

I’ve done my fair share of drooling (but no buying) at Leica shops in Frankfurt and Vienna, and I enjoyed doing the same to available X-models on display at Nuremberg’s Fuji-Store. Did I buy? No. Am I thinking about life after the X70? Yes.

I can also see Fuji X Weekly having some fun here in the shop.

I received neither support nor compensation for this piece. I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 2 August 2025. This post composed within Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.

German Museum of Technology, Deutsches Technikmuseum, Day and Night, Ludwig Brunow, Anhalter Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany, Deutschland, fotoeins.com

Fotoeins Friday, Berlin 2025 (6): Day and Night

“Day and Night” (1880) are a pair of statues by sculptor Ludwig Brunow which decorated the upper portion of the main portal at Berlin’s Anhalter train station (Anhalter Bahnhof). These originals reside in Berlin’s German Museum of Technology (Deutsches Technikmuseum): the woman at left represents night, and the man at right represents day. The two sculptures presently at the facade remnant at Anhalter Bahnhof are replicas.

I made the image above on 23 May 2025 with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime and these settings: 1/30-sec, f/8, ISO3200, and 18.5/28mm focal length. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-vG4.

25T91 Final travel day

E90: Schengen limit.

I’m on an ICE train from Cologne non-stop to Frankfurt Airport; the trip is 70 minutes if there aren’t any delays. Online check-in completed last night, and the final feature is the 10.5-hour flight to Canada.

At Frankfurt Airport, I pass through security to go from landside to airside, and I pass through E.U. passport controls because I’m leaving Europe. The gentleman noted from my passport I’m on day 90 inside Schengen. I replied: “I know; that’s why I’m now at the airport.”

This ends 91 consecutive days of journaling for my European summer of 2025. Thanks for sticking around to the end, and I hope you enjoyed reading as much as I enjoying putting all of this together. Additional and lengthier descriptions will follow in the coming weeks and months.

Bahnhofsvorplatz: see ya’ later, Cologne!
Bahnhofsvorplatz: Cologne central station.
Digital departures board.
Gleis (track) number 5.
ICE arrival at track 5.
Heading out to Frankfurt Flughafen (Airport); switch of trains not required. The final destination for this short-duration ICE train is Frankfort am Main Hauptbahnhof.
Flughafen Frankfurt: The Squaire, on top of the train station for long-distance trains.
Frankfurt Airport: Terminal 1, departures hall B. Judging by multiple appearances, is Apple truly pushing use of Apple Pay in Germany?
Departures hall C: checking the big departures board for assigned gate.
In “purgatory” without an assigned gate; on the tarmac about to board at Frankfurt Airport.

I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 6 August 2025. This post composed within Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.

25T90 Final full day: summer of `25

E89, C06.

I’m in Cologne on the 90th and penultimate travel day. Fortunately, I still have “room” for travel day 91 and Europe day 90: my last day within Schengen to allow for a timely departure. I didn’t need to stay in Frankfurt this time, because with ICE trains, I can go non-stop from Cologne to Frankfurt Airport in 70 minutes. But I will soon leave with another truckload of memories, thousands of images, and time well spent in places crucially important to me.

The 2025 numbers for 90 days:

  • Total distance walked: 746 km / 464 mi.
  • Total number of steps: 1.02 million.
  • Daily average distance walked: 8.3 km / 5.2 mi.
  • Daily average number of steps: 11347.

Rudolfplatz: transport junction for lines 1, 7, 12, 15; and bus routes 136, 146.
Dürener Strasse 199-203: there’s a dark-grey plaque at far-left and a “stumbling stone” or Stolperstein at lower-right.
Known for his series of turn-of-the-century portraits, photographer August Sander (1876-1964) lived and worked at Dürener Strasse 201 from 1911 to 1944. This memorial plaque is on the wall next to the entrance at Dürener Strasse 199-203. The August Sander photograph archives are located at the SK Stiftung Kultur in Cologne’s Mediapark.
Stumbling stone (Stolperstein) within the pavement in front of Dürener Strasse 199-203: Photographer and August Sander’s son, Erich, arrested for high treason in 1934; died age 40 on 23 March 1944 at the NS penitentiary in Siegburg.
Sander family grave at Melaten Cemetery.
Rudolfplatz: “BoConcept: (offering) one-on-one consultations on interior design.”
Of these great people in the frame, I’ve known two of them since 2002-2003. The setting that is the Latin American restaurant El Inca is a favourite. (Thanks to MW for the image.)
Last light of the day, facing northwest from Barbarossaplatz towards the Herz Jesu church (left-centre) near Zülpicher Platz.

I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 5 August 2025. This post composed within Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.