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Prints for Haiti

I’ve been watching what’s going on in Haiti after the earthquakes for the last few days and while I don’t have much of money myself (I could only afford a $50 donation), I have decided to participate in a little different way – which is also being promoted through Flickr, and I hope this will encourage a few more donations to help those in need.

What am I doing? I’ve entered several of my photographs up for bid in the Flickr Charity Print Auctions group at:

www.flickr.com/groups/charityprintauctions/

for the Haiti Earthquake Appeal. A few Examples:

1) Wieseckes Mill Brandenburg Germany (edited)

2) Prepositions in an Urban Jungle

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4)Oberbaumbrücke Sunset

5) TV Tower, Reichstag, Brandenburg Gate

6) St. Marienkirche, Alexanderplatz

    Here’s how it works.

To bid, you need to comment below the image on Flickr (or email me) with the amount that you would like to bid. When the auction closes, the person that has bid the most, wins the print.

The prints that are for auction may vary in size (as set by the photographer), but I’m offering most at 20 x 30 CM (7.9 x 11.8 inches) with a thin white border around it so it’s suitable for Framing. They will be printed by Snapfish on high gloss finished paper and promptly delivered to you.

This Auction will finish on Sunday, 24th January 2010 at midnight CET (Central European Time).

The winning bidder has to pay their winning amount to Doctors Without Borders (Medecins sans frontieres):

doctorswithoutborders.org/

When you do this, you MUST make a screen grab of the donation confirmation page to send to the photographer. This is the only way the photographer knows that you have paid and can arrange for the print to be sent to you.

The photographer accepts that they will pay the costs of production of the print and the postage to the winning bidder.

Not interested in the Prints you see above? Please check out my “best of” sets; and/or My flickr photostream – and see if there’s something you’d like in return for your donation!

www.flickr.com/photos/phoenixesrose/collections/721576054…

If you are more interested in something else (cards, postcards, or heck, even some German chocolate) for your donation, I may be willing to make arrangements!

Together, we CAN make a DIFFERENCE!

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Franziskan Kloster Kirche Ruins

Broken Road, Empty Coats


The city of Berlin is an awesme place. Sometimes, when you’re out wandering, you find things that – even though you thought you REALLY had covered the entire area in your previous wanderings – somehow, you turn down a side street and VIOLA, you discover something new, unique and very cool. Such was the case with the Franziskan Kloster Kirche Ruins, near the Old City Walls.

Broken Pavement
Broken Pavement Art Display

While out walking between Jannowitzbrueke from seeing the puppets (see previous post), Jade, Paul, and I decided to cut across through the “old city” and came across a lovely park – that was filled with ruins – now used for various “artistic” displays. After wandering around the edge, I found out that it’s an old Franciscan Cloister Church. Just some history on this church – it was originally built in about 1250. It’s where the Franciscan monks of Berlin were housed, and sat right on the original city walls. It was here, that in 1380, a huge fire burned through. Parts of the cloister were rebuilt. In 1539, the monestry was then closed during the reformation, and the last “serving” brother died in 1571. At that time, the building was converted into a high school, where it remained as such – educating such famous Germans as Otto Von Bismark. In 1926, the building was remodeled to be used as a school / church. During WW2, the building was badly bombed and between 1959-1961 determined that it could not be saved. So, the area was cleaned up and stabelized as much as possible and turned into a park. Today, the building hosts art projects that change monthy, and in the summer months, it hosts open air theater performances.

Anyhow, It seems it was fate for us – because the particular “art” display of the day was a bunch of metal lines strung up between the empty windows – with some kind of pulley system on them – attached to jackets. On that very blustery of fall days, not only did the leaves fall from the trees through the open window frames, but also, the jackets danced – as if they were filled with a life of their own.

Afraid of Ghosts?
I think she’s afraid of ghosts…

Thing is that sometimes – color photographs aren’t the best. You see, sometimes, effects are much better seen in Black and white:

It's Alive!!
Still at First, with a breath of wind… they become…

Flying Coats 2
The “haunted” Flying Jackets

See what I mean about sometimes – black and white is just SO much better?!?

Oh and if that wasn’t proof enough, check out this “columnade” from the outside….

Stone spiral
Stone Spiral

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