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Regierungsviertel, Marschallbrücke, Spree, Berlin, Germany, Deutschland, fotoeins.com

Fotoeins Friday, Berlin 2025 (9): Government District

Facing west to the Regierungsviertel (Government district) over the Spree river from the bridge Marschallbrücke, the Reichstag is a symbol of the turbulent and tragic past, and the post-reunification buildings that are the Paul-Löbe-Haus and the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders Haus are representative of the present and hope for the future.

I made the image above on 27 May 2025 with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime and these settings: 1/1000-sec, f/13, ISO1000, and 18.5/28mm focal length. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-vHD.

Berlin, Deutschland, Germany, Helmut Newton, Helmut Newton Stiftung, Museum fuer Fotografie, fotoeins.com

Fotoeins Friday, Berlin 2025 (8): Helmut Newton’s Polaroids

Polaroid by Helmut Newton, for American Vogue, Monaco, 1979.

Newton made many small Polaroid images throughout his renowned career as a way to test or experiment with ideas, because all he had at the time were film-cameras. In other words, he could afford to “waste” Polaroids, but not his “work film”. Yes, I know: I made a photograph of a Polaroid made to print and set on display in a museum in Berlin. But there’s something subversive about this digital version existing somewhere in the aether, an image which many will look and pass by, in a similar manner unknowing to them of having seen a physical print somewhere in a museum or gallery.

I made the image above on 25 May 2025 with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime and these settings: 1/60-sec, f/4, ISO3200, and 18.5/28mm focal length. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-vHs.

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.

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.

25T54 The transition from Berlin to Vienna

E53, B48-V01.

Travel day 54. The beginning of day 48 in Berlin ends with day 1 in Vienna.

I completed 7 weeks in Berlin after having been away for almost 4 years. But this is now my 4th consecutive summer in Vienna, another month in the Austrian capital. I guess the Vienna “Grantigkeit” is something I can recognize and appreciate. I’ll miss the general reach, frequency, and efficiency of Berlin’s U- & S-Bahn, but I’m also a fan of Vienna’s “end of the Alps” foothills and the unmistakable presence of the Danube river.

From one airport’s train station at BER, to the next airport’s train station at VIE.

I arrived at Berlin’s airport on an FEX (Flughafen Express) train from Gesundbrunnen station.
Multiple tracks and platforms at Berlin Brandenburg Airport BER train station.
The airport is named after former German chancellor Willy Brandt. “If I were asked to say what, apart from peace, was most important to me, then my answer would be ‘freedom’.”
BER gates A16 and A17 at left and right, respectively. My flight to Vienna with Austrian Airlines from gate A17 is getting the prep.
Into VIE: Terminal 1 arrivals’ baggage carousel.
How could you, VIE, possibly know I was thinking about going back to Meissl & Schadn? Perhaps this is why.
I’m about to board an ÖBB RailJet train to Vienna’s central station (Hauptbahnhof).

I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 30 June 2025. This post composed within Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.