I Focused on the Birds - a photo on Flickriver

Well, not exactly, but I'd indeed hoped that I could get them into the frame - and I did ;-) If you zoom in on the roof of the lower building you can see that there was a bird gathering (doves, I think) with quite a lot coming and leaving going on, and the three on the left (which are common swifts, as I know now, thank you BrigitteE1!) apparently were the late arrivals, or maybe they were on their way to their very own common swift party :-).

View of the German Cathedral (Deutscher Dom) on Gendarmenmarkt which is regarded as Berlin's most beautiful square. The German Cathedral belongs to a buiding ensemble that also consists of the Konzerthaus (Berlin Concert Hall) at the center of the square and the German Cathedral's "twin", the French Cathedral. The twin buildings flank the Konzerthaus, and neither the German nor the French Cathedral are church buildings in the proper sense - actually they are mere towers, and the name "Dom" (which also stands for cathedral) is actually derived from the French term dôme for cupola. The two towers once were complementary buildings to the adjacent New Church (German Cathedral) which was a Calvinist and Lutheran Simultaneum, and the French Church of Friedrichstadt (French Cathedral) which served as a church for the Hugenots that had found a new home in what then was Prussia under the reign of Frederick the Great.

This is the first image of a mini series that I will post this week. Next will be a capture taken inside of the tower, also photographed with my LX100, and I think on Sliders Sunday you will see a slightly more adventurously processed image also taken inside the German Cathedral (and shot with my Olympus). Actually this one was meant to be for Sliders Sunday, too, I have a version of this image replete with textures and other slightly more extreme slider work, but I didn't get around to post it last Sunday, so, since it's Tuesday,
I'll show you this newly and more conventionally edited version first. At first I thought about removing the treetop in the lower left corner with the clone stamp, but then decided against it, because I think it helps to "ground" this capture which otherwise has the strange effect as if that building was hovering up in the sky - just my impression, probably, but I decided to mention it in case you wondered about that bit of treetop in the left corner. Maybe I'll also post the other version later this year just for fun - and on a Sunday, of course :-)

Blick auf den Deutschen Dom am Gendarmenmarkt, der wegen seines besonderen Gebäudeensembles mit dem Konzerthaus in der Mitte, zu beiden Seiten flankiert von den architektonischen Zwillingen Deutscher und Französischer Dom, auch als Berlins schönster Platz bezeichnet wird. Die Aufnahme habe ich von der Außenseite des Platzes (an der Charlottenstraße) gemacht. Ich wollte auch unbedingt die drei Vögel (Mausersegler - Danke, BrigitteE1!) links mit im Bild haben, die offenbar die Spätankömmlinge der kleinen Vogelversammlung (Tauben, denke ich) auf dem Dach des Rundbaus vor dem Turm waren (oder vermutlich auf dem Weg zu ihrer eigenen Mauersegler-Party) - wenn Ihr ins Bild hineinzoomt, könnt Ihr dort die kleine Vogel-Party sehen.

Dies ist das erste Foto einer Miniserie, die ich diese Woche zeigen werde; als Nächstes folgt eine Innenansicht des Turms, auch mit meiner Lumix LX100 fotografiert, und dann, als (vorläufiger) Abschluss eine weitere Innenansicht - fotografiert mit meiner Olympus EM5II und aufbereitet für den Sliders Sunday. Eigentlich war schon dieses Foto für den Sliders Sunday gedacht, allerdings in einer anderen Version mit Texturen und viel stärkerer Bearbeitung; da ich es letzten Sonntag aber zeitlich nicht geschafft habe, seht Ihr nun zuerst diese konventioneller bearbeitete Version. Die Sliders-Sunday-Version lade ich vielleicht später mal hoch; ich habe ja auch noch andere Fotos von diesem Spontanbesuch des Deutschen Doms.

Taken in: Germany / Land Berlin / Berlin, Stadt / Friedrichstadt (show map)

Taken on: August 3, 2019

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