Hard to remember that fact in February though, isn't it? Winter in
Berlin means grey skies, grey streets and a grey-black mood. But at
least we have our cameras and videos to remember the summer by, eh?
Just
imagine this: up until colour photography started being widely used,
even the memories that people used to keep of this city on film
were grey.
That meant they weren't even able to escape into a vision of the summer
that had been (and hopefully would be again) like we can. So we
should probably all take a second to be thankful for our smartphones,
Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Youtube - and for Blogger of course!
Technology's transformed the camera since the black n' white days, and made it loads more accommodating to the mind reels of memories that all Berliners collect, to bursting point, each summer. There's never enough time to process all these memories at the time, so why not use the winter lull to try and catch up and make sense of it all? Or at least, to reaffirm how little sense any of it makes?
As a mini-tribute to the little rectangular glowing screen in front of me that holds on to these memories,
and doubles as my replacement sunlight over the winter months, I'm going to share a few of the sights I've stored on it from summer 2016. Looking through these pictures today brought me a badly-needed
hit of vicarious colour, heat and light to fill the end-of-winter void. Here's hoping it will do the same for
you!
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| Streetart in sunny Strausberg, spotted on the way to a pristine lake |
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| Stumbling into openair parties by accident, on the way home from work |
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| Random unexplained statues on the Spree |
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| Wreckage of old buildings being transformed into impromptu canvasses, outside of Berghain |
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| Fete de la Musique @ Friedrichshain |
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| ...and protest parades under the sun |
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All-dayers at building sites full of sand the "beach" |
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| Being able to walk anywhere, wearing anything, without getting cold... |
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| ...and keep walking... |
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| ...till you pass out in a flamingo boat!? |
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| Ending the day with a sundowner on the Spree :-) |
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