Berlin Fotomarathon 2010 I learned later that the term Gründerzeit refers to the building and architectural explosion that took place under the realm of Kaiser Wilhelm. For this topic I took a photo of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, today left in its bomb-damaged 1945 condition as a monument to the damage and destruction of war.
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Berlin Fotomarathon 2010 - a better translation for Schräg might have been "Off-kilter". Also Whacky is normally spelled "Wacky". I was able to ask this lovely young woman to pose for me and I thought the shot summed up the off-kilter side of Berlin beautifully
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Geheimnisvoll also means "mysterious" and with a hint of the occult. I thought the interior of a church would suit the theme very well, since in the old DDR religion was something you kept hidden - Berlin Fotomarathon 2010
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The overall theme of the 2010 Fotomarathon was "Time Travel". The theme for the first photo in the series was "Witnesses:. The first photo is required to clearly show the number of the contestant in the Berlin Fotomarathon 2010. These statues are in the middle of the Gendarmemarkt square in the centre of Berlin. My reasoning was that if anyone had been a witness to the history of Berlin it would be these two...
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Most of the accordian players on the street in Berlin are Gypsies - not sure if the Roma lifestyle is considered Bohemian, but it seemed right at the time - Berlin Fotomarathon 2010
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