Night and Light

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It’s not until you walk about with a camera in your hand that you end up noticing things you might never have noticed before, or start seeing them in a different light. That’s one of the things I’m appreciating since being given my mother’s first digital SLR, a Canon (the 400D for those interested).

It was while out and about on my first poorly timed (the sun sets too soon and too fast in January) excursion with the camera that I got really excited, in a place that, up until then, I had found boring to the point of being almost depressing. I have no idea how many times I have walked past this 50-year old workshop that produces and repairs all manner of weighing scales. To be fair it stands a little offside, on a small side road running parallel to a main road which leads past Berlin’s Westhafen (West Harbour) onto a junction for one of the city’s many autobahns, just south of Tegel airport. Apart from traffic, it’s a pretty deserted stretch of road, neither residential nor commercial. It’s not as if there is anything else that has previously held or caught my attention, I must generally have been wrapped up in my own thoughts every time I walked past. But for the first time, camera in hand, the play of light and shadows on this building caught my attention: not having a tripod, I also ended up appreciating a fence whose presence had previously been ignored and of no importance.

I’ve been noticing fences a lot more lately too, or searching for them.

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prologue

For now I’ll keep things short. It’s possible this might not always be the case, but who likes reading long prologues these days?

Having recently inherited a camera, I’ve now chosen this space to share images found in the city I live in. I’ll also be sharing the occasional thought or two. Unless stated otherwise the images are mine.

End of prologue.