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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape Photography Locations => Topic started by: Jann Lipka on June 24, 2008, 02:21:57 pm

Title: Berlin of all places
Post by: Jann Lipka on June 24, 2008, 02:21:57 pm

I'm taking a short 4 day leisure trip with my son 14 years .

I'll be stopping by Monochrom to check the latest ALPA  XA
( should be in )  .
Anything that could make a nice  photo location .


Last time I've been to Berlin was before the wall came down .

I know about the new Reichstag building ,
some other obvious things like Branderburger Tor ...


Anything else ?

Will be there 28 june until 2 July .

Thanks .

Title: Berlin of all places
Post by: wolfnowl on June 24, 2008, 10:06:01 pm

The city has its own tourist information page, which may be of use:
http://www.visitberlin.de/index.en.php (http://www.visitberlin.de/index.en.php)

Make sure you take your son to see where the wall used to be...

Mike.

Title: Berlin of all places
Post by: Jann Lipka on June 26, 2008, 12:50:39 am

Thanks,

Yes , I have several guides in books too,

I was merely hoping for some more off beaten track location ....
( and photographic interesting ) :-)

Title: Berlin of all places
Post by: lbalbinot on June 26, 2008, 09:13:11 am

Hi!

I don't know if you guys are willing to walk a little, but I'd suggest one of those "Berlin Walks" guided tours. There's plenty of time to shoot and the guide goes to several nice places. It's a lot better than those bus tours where you have to shoot behind the glass.

The last time I did one was in 1999 :-) Hope it's still the same. Look for their meeting points on the web site:

http://www.berlinwalks.com/ (http://www.berlinwalks.com/)

Regards,
Luis

Title: Berlin of all places
Post by: Jann Lipka on June 26, 2008, 05:08:23 pm

That sounds like an interesting options,
after all I have to keep my son activated to compensate his sitting
5 hrs a day in front of Counter Strike ...

Thanks

Title: Berlin of all places
Post by: Jann Lipka on July 11, 2008, 03:52:21 pm

Luis , Thanks to your suggestions.
I ended with 4 hours bicycle tour :-)



Bus tour I took first was not worth it ..
Walking tour is good for sure .

Most of the central tourist things seems for me to be within walking distance ....

Take a look at  a pano of Holocaust Memorial
http://www.viewat.org/?i=en&id_pn=2154&rc=1&sec=pn (http://www.viewat.org/?i=en&id_pn=2154&rc=1&sec=pn)


regards

BTW,
Berlin is really great city for photography , even police seems friendly, calm and educated .

No one shot at me despite using terrorist weapon of choice - tripod ...

( I have really bad experiences from London , New York and SanFrancisco )

Title: Berlin of all places
Post by: geke on August 13, 2008, 03:46:01 pm

People in Germany simply do not think so much about Photographers using a tripod than you may find in other countries. In France epecially in Paris everybody using a tripod is considered a pro and needs a license just for making some pics from Louvre or Eiffel Tower.

People are crazy.  

Gerd

Title: Berlin of all places
Post by: Jann Lipka on August 16, 2008, 02:57:39 am

Going to New York  10 days  after my short Berlin visit  was a bit like going  back to EAST  Germany in 70s ....
Sorry for that .

Tripod - a weapon of mass destruction , DSLR - a pedophile tool ....

Even in my own hotel ( expensive one in SOHO )
normally very friendly  stuff came out really quick from their hidings to briskly inform how forbidden
it was to photograph inside the hotel ...
( I took a snap of my family ).