New Images of Berlin

In July we visited Berlin for a few days, all planned around taking photographs of the city. The films have been processed a while and here is a taster of them. More on my web site.

Brandenburg Gate at Night

Bode Museum at Dusk

St Nikolai Church and Cafe Sign

Berlin Wall on Bernauerstrasse

Holocaust Memorial and Tree

 Reichstag Building at Night

Berlin Sign and Lamp

Bundestag Film 'To the German People'

Photography in Berlin

Last Day in Berlin. Best weather of our 3 days today, sunny with a few clouds. Still a few locations to photograph but I have lots already. I have taken over 25 rolls of 120 Ilford FP4, at 10 shots on a roll. I repeated some as the weather improved but there's still a lot of different views.

As there are so many rolls I will send them to the Ilford Lab for processing, otherwise it would take me the best part of a day to do myself in batches of 5.

It's not straightforward taking photos in Berlin as a large part of it is a building site. In one view near the cathedral I counted 21 tower cranes in the shot. I hate tower cranes! Normally I would just wait for dark and then continue, the cranes being hidden in the dark skies. Unfortunately, that doesn't help here, the construction companies advertise their names in neon lights on most of the cranes, so they can't be easily removed. I'm sure Berlin will be great when they finish it!

Off out to take more photos now.

Not looking forward to the early start Jan arranged for us, up at 4am!

First Photos of Berlin

We arrived over 3 hours late at our hotel last night. Delays from the plane fire at Heathrow the day before and a diversion to a different airport at Berlin. We finally checked in at 2.45am!

Fortunately it was a grey day so we had a lie in. The forecast is for mostly sunshine for the next 2 days so decided to spend today finding our way around and spotting the best locations.

My new Samsung Galaxy S3 phone is now fully working as Vodafone has activated the sim card. I took the photo of St Nikolai Church with it to check the camera out. The one on my previous S2 was rubbish! I also took it on my proper camera, my Mamiya 7 (I actually brought 2 with me just in case I break one again).

My back is painful after walking around with camera and tripod so am resting in our room at the hotel for a couple of hours. Later will do some night shots but can't start until after 10pm at this time of year.

Berlin Photo Trip and Jolly Hot Weather

We drove down to Heathrow Airport today for a flight to Berlin. It was 32ºC in the car,  not used to that!

Now waiting in air-conditioned Cafe Nero at Heathrow.

Hoping for some sunshine in Berlin and dry weather, a bit cooler would be good too or I may spend too much time in the pub!

We've never been to Berlin before and have 3 days to get the shots.

Just upgraded my phone yesterday to a Samsung Galaxy S3 from an S2. No network at moment just wifi until Vodafone reconnect me. Best to email me if you need to contact us,  mono@davebutcher.co.uk.