(Please note that these are old imported blogs from My Space.  The links may not work correctly.)

Ahh I’m so behind.  I had a week off on holidays – and still have
pictures from my birtdhay trip to process.  However, due to a request
from the photo group – I’m trying to get the ones from the photo group
processed and up first.   So, thus the reason for multiple back-dated
blog posts on the same day.  (no, it’s not your eyes – I really did
enter these in May… but out of my diary from April.)

After the trip to the Pergamon on Thursday, I wound up out with the photo
group.  Initially the weather wasn’t very good – and it looked like it
was going to rain.  A stiff breeze continued, but as the day wore on,
blue skies and sun decided to make an appearance and set us up for a
great sunset.  Yeah, I’m loving the ToytownGermany Photography group –
we’re a good bunch of people, I’m learning alot, and well,
opportunities abound.

The photos are in the following sets:

Treptower Park & Communist Memorial

Molecule Man (Random Art statue)

Oberbaumbrücke & East side Graffiti

Highlights from them include the following:

Soviet Soldier Kneeling (notice the other through his boot)

Treptower Park, Monument and Memorial (at the far end, center)

Tilted Communist Flags (with kneeling soldiers – notice the hammer & sickle at the top of flag)

The Soviet Soldier – caring enough to stop in the middle of battle, pick up a (his?) lost child, and fighting.

You can actually go up the stairs to view inside the above monument –
it’s Russian, and says something about dedicated to those who fought
facism and died.

Inside the memorial

From there, we walked along the river Spree and up to the Molecule Man
statue. It’s 30 meters tall (4 stories), weighing 45 tons, and made of
aluminum. This statue is the brain child of American artist Jonathan
Borofsky and has been in the Spree River since 1999. With 3 aluminum
“men” that unite to make a whole, the artist reminds us “that both
people and molecules exhist in a world of probability and that the aim
of all creative and intellectual traditions is to find wholeness and
unity within the world”.

Molecule Man x3 Composition

There’s more in that set including an abandoned ship and a few other highlights but that’s the main thing in there.

After a few minutes, we continued along the East side where there is
lots of Urban art (when does graffiti turn to urban art? When it looks
like this!!)

I Love You, earflaps

The Ravers

Flying Fish – (airplane with fish?)

Solyent Green Is Humans (full building)

Solyent
Green is Humans (close) This is some famous graffiti artist – and it
was a statement on how People cannibalize each other in more ways than
one. Kinda creepy but cool. It’s visible from the Ubahn as you go by.

Not long after, the sun started to set, I decided to take photographs
of a beautiful bridge known as Oberbaumbrücke. There’s lots in this set
worth viewing! Anyhow, This was destroyed in WW2, but built back up to
resemble how it looked before…. with a series of towers based on an
ancient one in a town north of Berlin – Prenslau. A Ubahn runs across
the top of the bridge, and cars on the bottom.

Sunset behind Oberbaumbruecke Silhouette(notice the train on top)

Arched walkway for pedestrians

View of the TV tower at Alexanderplatz from Oberbaumbrücke

From there, I headed over to have a Doener with Paul and then home,
knowing that the Next weekend would be yet more photography – because
it’s a 3 day weekend.

** Several of these are available as prints for sale in my store!**