NOTE: It turns out today’s expedition was a waste of time so I am discontinuing this post – explanation at the bottom.
Woohooo – our dogwalker is back from holiday. Max is very happy. He loves being chauffeured (ironically: he and I will just have to agree to disagree on the subject of private cars …) to the outskirts of Berlin and frolicking, away from traffic, off leash, with dogs he knows well by now.
The coming weeks, Tuesdays and Thursdays will be my days to go out and take photos, and today, even the weather cooperated, or at least it did not rain.
This week’s assignment is to take 12 photos in sets of two, so three sets of “synonyms” and three sets of “antonyms”.
Today I came up with these (some of them can probably be interpreted as both). Not sure if they can be used, so I will wait and see what I find on Thursday before making the final decision on which ones to submit.
Today’s route on mapmywalk here.
Curvy
The eyesore
Or, as directly translated from Danish: the eye turd), of which only one side bears looking at. (This is the controversial castle already mentioned in the previous post). In my humble opinion a monumental blunder in the most prime location in Berlin.
Stairs into water
A dome and a pair of wings
Circle with plants
Columns and a pattern
The first one is a detail from Alte Nationalgalerie. The other two from the relatively new Springer building, by architect Rem Koolhaas.
Ladders into water
People live there
Unrelated to the assignment, I also took these, and stopped for a coffee at Café am Engelbecken (masked staff and outdoor seating):
And then, at the end of the afternoon, an e-mail from Kai giving further specifications, so that my outing today was a complete waste of time.
It all sounds way too difficult now – a lot of talk of using light … what light ??? Even in relatively OK weather like today, it is still grey outside with no light to play around with. Indoors, using objects and lamps? Forget it. I like my home but there is NOTHING worth photographing in it and I don’t have – and don’t want to acquire – suitable lights for photography. I also hate setting things up, staging photos, and then having to clear it all away again. Yawn.