Berliner Reflektionen
Reflets de Berlin
Berlin Reflections
Back to Berlin for a 4 day conference, with just the Nikon body and one lens
(only one hand luggage! and the computer bag is the obligatory one on this
trip), I try to redo some of the images taken 4 years ago with a little compact
camera.
After the switch from summer time the previous night, I calculate that 4 pm
would be a good time to be on location. Alas, I do not take into account
Berlin's north-eastern geography, and light is fading from 3:30 pm
onwards!
That results in a few nice (I hope) twilight images, but I have to return
another time to get the images I am after. Construction work prevents me to get
to the right spot, but I am rather pleased with some of the
reflections.
"Lila Dämmerung",
Potsdamer Platz
"Fuzzy
Geometry", Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus
On the way back to the government district, I pass by Neue
Nationalgalerie
and "Legoland" at Potsdamer Platz
The afternoon light and the reflection make the geometry of Paul Löbe Haus
and Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus soft but no longer fuzzy:
"Soft Geometry"
"Wege der Demokratie": Stairs, balconies
and a bridge linking members of parliament and their staff to each
other.
And then, there is Gehry! I did not think one could simply walk past the guard
at the entrance of DZ Bank at Pariser Platz, but the guard even holds the door
open for you. I had heard about the explosion of "Gehry-forms" behind the stern
facade imposed by the city rules around Pariser Platz. But I did not expect
this. Magnificent! The meeting room inside the "whale" inside the glass-roofed
inner court (“under water”?).
