Picture of the Day: Karpathos 7

From the history of the Berlin Wall back to Karpathos.

Greece Karpathos - September 2009

Picture of the Day: The Fall of the Berlin Wall 4

Things that were lost since November 1989. Dass war damals und ist jetzt vorbei.

Berlin November 1989 - Brandenburger Tor

Berlin November 1989 - Reichstag

Berlin November 1989 - Potsdammer Platz

Berlin November 1989 - Brandenburger Tor

Berlin November 1989 - Brandenburger Tor

Picture of the Day: The Fall of the Berlin Wall 3

Today 20 years ago the Berlin Wall opened: East-Germans were able to visit West-Berlin.  In November 1989 Berlin was a city of freedom and hope. One of the first crossings was the Potzdammerplatz. After the fall of the wall this open space turned into one of the biggest building pits of Europe.

Berlin November 1989 - Reichstag

Berlin November 1989 - Potzdammerplatz

Berlin November 1989 - Potzdammerplatz Berlin November 1989 - Brandenburger Tor

Berlin November 1989 - Brandenburger Tor

Picture of the Day: The Fall of the Berlin Wall 2

Berlin November 1989 - Brandenburger Tor

Souvenir hunters or people trying to demolish the wall?

Berlin November 1989 - Reichstag

Berlin November 1989 - Brandenburger Tor

Berlin November 1989 - Reichstag

 

Berlin November 1989 - Reichstag

 

 

 

Picture of the Day: The Fall of the Berlin Wall 1

On November 9 1989 East-Germans were free to travel to the West. A few days later I happened to be in Berlin. The Wall was open. There was a ‘hole’ on the Potsdammer Platz. A long row of people was waiting in the big open empty space. 

The Wall had opened, but the  infrastructure that kept East-Germans inside was still there. The guards, the towers, the barbwire, the mines, the ‘no man’s land zone’, the spooky and unrealistic atmosphere of separation and repression. On the west side people were attacking The Wall to get memorabilia, tearing it down with hammers and chisles. There was the anticipation of change, everybody (including the press at the Brandenburger Tor) was waiting for The Big Opening. People selling t-shirts, buttons.

During those days I shot some pictures. It is kind of nice to post them here in remembrance of that period, when the world really changed. They art taken near Checkpoint Charlie (from the scafolding overlooking the old wall) and near the Brandenburger Tor.

Berlin November 1989 - Checkpoint Charlie

Berlin November 1989 - Brandenburger Tor

Berlin November 1989 - Brandenburger Tor

Picture of the Day: Karpathos VI

The same church in black and white again. For me it is interesting to see the differences in B/W and colour: both put all the glory to the object but still have their different qualities.  PS Karpathos offers much more than churches .

Karpathos Greece - September 2009

Picture of the Day: Karpathos V

For whom the bell tolls: black and white this time.

Karphathos Greece - September 2009

 

 

Picture of the Day: Karpathos IV

Same church, different angle, lots of blue.

 

Karpathos Greece - September 2009

Picture of the Day: Karpathos III

As  I said earlier: lots of churches. This one is fitting the cliche format: blue, white, blue sky and a bit of green of a tree.

Karpahtos Greece September 2009

Picture of the Day: Karpathos II

Karphathos Greece - September 2009

Another post of  Karpathos pictures. The island is filled with small churches. Here is one of them.