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At the Duck Pond

            Happy City Life at the Pond – and there are ducks, and a dog, too :) 

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Explored December 5, 2022

You know that it's a dull day when you enter the bathroom to wash your hands and the motion detector turns the night light on. At noon. The brightest time of the day. Well, not at the moment. This is what must be the darkest, dullest late autumn we've had in years. Time for some virtual sunshine, and another photo from the sunny, warm walk at the Rudolph-Wilde-Park in late October. 

It's the same lake, or rather pond (it even has a name: Ententeich, "duck pond"), as in my previous photo from that spot (please check the first comment for that capture), but taken from the opposite side. Here you can see the tower of the Rathaus Schöneberg which was West Berlin's town hall during the time of the Berlin Wall and the German separation. John F. Kennedy spoke to the Berliners from the balcony of Rathaus Schöneberg when he visited West Berlin on June 26, 1963, the 15th anniversary of the West Berlin Airlift.

The building on the other side of the duck pond is a subway station, the "U-Bahnhof Rathaus Schöneberg" which is one of only five stations of Berlin's shortest underground line with the shortest train (consisting of only two carts in each direction), the U4. The U4 is among Berlin's oldest underground lines, it was put into service in 1910 (when Schöneberg was still an independent community), and it only passes through the borough of Schöneberg. At the moment, the station is being renovated, and that white "cube" that you can see on the left is a part of the construction site. I thought about retouching it, but then it's a part of the city life and also a part of Berlin's constant imperfection, and I think it also isn't too disturbing as an image element. So here's another photo Post Processed to the MAX!!! from a city that is imperfect to the max (but I love my city). 

HSS, Everyone, and have a nice new week ahead!

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

Taken on: October 28, 2022

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Lens:	OLYMPUS M.12-40mm F2.8
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Focal Length:	17mm
ISO:	200
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
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