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On my way to work
A few days ago I went back to the office. With parental leave and the pandemic I spent most of the last three years working from (or staying at) home. I expected to get back into the office on a regular basis but that is not how it turned out. My employer seemed to have […]
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Train View
There is something soothing about watching the world go by. There is nothing to do but the time is still well spent. Eventually I will arrive without any doing from my part except boarding the train and taking a seat. It is such a great opportunity to simply do nothing in our frantically busy world. […]
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Ants collecting food
Train stations are such fascinating places. This is the lower mezzanine of Berlin main station also known as the lower food court. Well it is not a real food court per definition but food vendors are a majority. At one end of the mezzanine sits the ubiquitous McDonalds restaurant. Yes they still call themselves a […]
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Steel, Glass and Concrete – a modern Cathedral
Humans always had their temples. They have always been built with a religious purpose in mind. Although people would often not use them that way. For the Ancient Greeks temples were social gathering places. For the early Jews temples where also places of trade. Jesus’ Cleansing of the Temple speaks quite clearly about this. In […]
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Commute
The commute. A noun describing the regular journey between home and place of employment or education. Or what I like to call it: The biggest waste of time ever spent with people you do not want to be with. A few musings about commuting. My employer at the time was very keen on being present […]
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The Maze: A throwback to five years of Berlin’s new main railway station
Introduction to the Maze Berlin never had a real main railway station. As with many old rail networks most stations terminated and did not connect through the city. Travelers had to move through the streets to get from one station to another. Eventually the state built a connection from West to East. After the partition […]
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Urban Commuter Station
Sometimes I let a little program pick one of my images and I see what I can up with in terms of story. This time the image was part of a series so I thought about putting the whole set up as a gallery. Tell me what you think about this idea. This is an […]
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Subway above ground
New Yorkers are probably not wondering about this but Berlin has subways that go above ground. They are still called “Untergrundbahn” (underground rail) even though they are clearly above ground as my picture proves. This line is the U2 (no relation to Bono) and it is in part above and below ground. Back in 1910 […]
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Beware of Train
Something I used to do was to visit train stations in the evening or at night. There was something special about the atmosphere when most commuters had left hours ago and the station became eerily quiet with just the noise of the trains and the announcements. The people I would see were an eclectic mix […]
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