{"id":9434,"date":"2019-03-18T09:34:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T09:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=9434"},"modified":"2019-03-17T17:35:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T17:35:02","slug":"berlin-17-alexanderplatz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=9434","title":{"rendered":"Berlin 17: Alexanderplatz"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had to go to the Alexanderplatz, not just because it was only five minutes walk from the flat we were staying in. But also it seemed to be a good place to go to for an ice cream.<\/p>\n

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Ices were no problem, but otherwise the place was depressing. A wide open space with people lost and wandering, surrounded with architecture largely of little interest.
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\nThe only real exception was the Teacher’s House, again architecturally bland, but enlivened by a band of mural with a Mexican feel.<\/p>\n

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I took far too many pictures of that mural, mainly with the 35mm equiv on the Fuji X100. The light was getting a little low.
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To its side was a row of tents, with a rather more\u00a0 interesting shape.<\/p>\n

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I moved in closer and angled the camera up<\/p>\n

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and photographed the other\u00a0side<\/p>\n

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and the back.<\/p>\n

But it remained an awkward subject, a long thin strip, unsuited to my 1.5:1 aspect ratio.<\/p>\n

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I stepped back and took a final frame of the whole building then went to photograph the other feature of the area featured in the tourist guides, the World Clock.<\/p>\n

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I thought it looked more impressive if I combined it with the TV tower, but perhaps this was rather misleading.<\/p>\n

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and I moved to see it from another viewpoint, before going in closer.<\/p>\n

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\nand closer still<\/p>\n

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Underneath the clock a woman was playing a guitar<\/p>\n

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And there was a proper clock so I could tell what time it really was.<\/p>\n

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There were some fountains too, but by now\u00a0 I was getting hungry and gave up taking photographs.Our walks around Berlin continue in later posts.<\/p>\n

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We had to go to the Alexanderplatz, not just because it was only five minutes walk from the flat we were staying in. But also it seemed to be a good place to go to for an ice cream. Ices were no problem, but otherwise the place was depressing. A wide open space with people … Continue reading Berlin 17: Alexanderplatz<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-own-work"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9434"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9450,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9434\/revisions\/9450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}