photo sharing and upload picture albums photo forums search pictures popular photos photography help login
Alan Clements | profile | all galleries >> Berlin 2009 tree view | thumbnails | slideshow

Berlin 2009

I took my wife Sue to Berlin for her birthday. Berlin is one of our favorite European cities, although we'n not been there for several years. Some parts of Berlin have changed a lot since 'die Wende' and other parts have not changed at all. We stayed at the Hilton in Gendarmenmarkt where the friendliness of the staff was quite magnificant.
001_Berlin09.JPG
001_Berlin09.JPG		 002_Berlin09.JPG
002_Berlin09.JPG		 003_Berlin09.JPG
003_Berlin09.JPG		 004_Berlin09.JPG
004_Berlin09.JPG		 005_Berlin09.JPG
005_Berlin09.JPG
008_Berlin09.JPG
008_Berlin09.JPG		 010_Berlin09.JPG
010_Berlin09.JPG		 011_Berlin09.JPG
011_Berlin09.JPG		 012_Berlin09.JPG
012_Berlin09.JPG		 013_Berlin09.JPG
013_Berlin09.JPG
014_Berlin09.JPG
014_Berlin09.JPG		 015_Berlin09.JPG
015_Berlin09.JPG		 016_Berlin09.JPG
016_Berlin09.JPG		 017_Berlin09.JPG
017_Berlin09.JPG		 018_Berlin09.JPG
018_Berlin09.JPG
019_Berlin09.JPG
019_Berlin09.JPG		 020_Berlin09.JPG
020_Berlin09.JPG		 021_Berlin09.JPG
021_Berlin09.JPG		 035_Berlin09.JPG
035_Berlin09.JPG		 022_Berlin09.JPG
022_Berlin09.JPG
023_Berlin09.JPG
023_Berlin09.JPG		 024_Berlin09.JPG
024_Berlin09.JPG		 025_Berlin09.JPG
025_Berlin09.JPG		 026_Berlin09.JPG
026_Berlin09.JPG		 027_Berlin09.JPG
027_Berlin09.JPG
028_Berlin09.JPG
028_Berlin09.JPG		 029_Berlin09.JPG
029_Berlin09.JPG		 030_Berlin09.JPG
030_Berlin09.JPG		 031_Berlin09.JPG
031_Berlin09.JPG		 032_Berlin09.JPG
032_Berlin09.JPG
033_Berlin09.JPG
033_Berlin09.JPG		 034_Berlin09.JPG
034_Berlin09.JPG		 036_Berlin09.JPG
036_Berlin09.JPG		 039_Berlin09.JPG
039_Berlin09.JPG		 037_Berlin09.JPG
037_Berlin09.JPG
038_Berlin09.JPG
038_Berlin09.JPG		 039_Berlin09.JPG
039_Berlin09.JPG		 040_Berlin09.JPG
040_Berlin09.JPG		 041_Berlin09.JPG
041_Berlin09.JPG

comment | share
Sönke 13-Jun-2010 12:25
Nice, very very nice! You do have a great eye for detail!
Best regards
Sönke
Alessandro Farnè 03-Feb-2010 12:11
Splendid Berlin
Voted!
travelingrabbit 24-May-2009 09:16
I love your perspective of Berlin through piccies! This is a city that my hubby & I would love to visit ~ hopefully this October for vacation.
Alan Clements 24-May-2009 08:59
To Moritasan: True - every large city has such problems. You will see graffiti in some of my later images and a drunk in the fountain in Alexander Platz. However, the core of Berlin is cleaner than many other major cities and I did feel safe. I visited one working class district - but that is being 'gentrified'. From a photographic point of view, it is difficult photographing images of the poor - partially because you feel you are intruding and partially for reasons of personal safely. Some of the graffiti was bad - for example on the statue of Kathe Kolwitz. At the end of the day, I did love Berlin.
moritasan 24-May-2009 07:59
this is not realistic and misleading . the Berlin one will see.One sees dirt, graffiti, punks, srcatched tram windows , drunks , druggies and just more dirt at subway stations just look at Hermanplatz for instance. There is no progress.Even the all mighty Kurfuerstendamm around the Zoo station is filthy.
click on thumbnails for full image