M10 - the Image Thread

[Shlomo]

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The sisters Goldman. Tel Aviv 2017. M10, Summilux 24mm.

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Eventually cleaned up. Kikar Hamedina, Tel Aviv 2017. M10 with Summilux 24mm.

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Sam the gardener

 

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Peak of fall color, 28 cron

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The Crew at ראצ'ה‎‎. Neve Zedek, Tel Aviv 2017. Summilux 24mm

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Edited November 9, 2017 by Shlomo

[Shlomo]

הטבע עצום . . . . . . Polina & Deborah

 

 

 

 

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Carl Zeiss Super-Dynarex 135mm/f4 (Icarex BM mount)

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Summicron-M 90mm f/2 Pre-ASPH

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Movie climax -- too dark to read the distance scale, rangefinder focus was a SWAG...

 

L8002353 by scott kirkpatrick, on Flickr ISO 6400

 

28 SX@f/1.4, 1/14 sec

[TheGodParticle/Hari]

Analog reality in a digital world

 

Leica M10, Leica Summilux 21/1.4

 

[TheGodParticle/Hari]

the last remnant of The Death Strip

 

 

"The Berlin Wall was more than 140 kilometres (87 mi) long. In June 1962, a second, parallel fence was built some 100 metres (110 yd) farther into East German territory. The houses contained between the fences were razed and the inhabitants relocated, thus establishing what later became known as the death strip.

 

The death strip was covered with raked sand or gravel, rendering footprints easy to notice, easing the detection of trespassers and also enabling officers to see which guards had neglected their task;[61] it offered no cover; and, most importantly, it offered clear fields of fire for the Wall guards. About 45.1 kilometres of the wall are at the centre strips of Berlin, and 112.7 kilometres crossing through the Berlin outer circle. 63.8 km of the frontier were in built, 32 km in wooded and 22.65 km in open terrain and 37.95 km of the boundary lay in or on rivers, lakes and canals. Most of them were dismantled beginning with the wall peckers as souvenirs from 11 November 1989, then dismantling the metal mesh fence along the death strip all the way until 22 December 1989. Observation towers began to be dismantled all the way till April 1990. Dismantling of the wall is shown at the below mentioned section (Demolition. Some of them were sold for scrap including the anti-tank wall, normal walls were sent to storage area in the southern part of Germany till it was auctioned and collected (List of Berlin Wall segments).

 

Through the years, the Berlin Wall evolved through four versions:[citation needed]

 

- Wire fence and concrete block wall (1961)

- Improved wire fence (1962–1965)

- Improved concrete wall (1965–1975)

- Grenzmauer 75 (Border Wall 75) (1975–1989)

 

The "fourth-generation Wall", known officially as "Stützwandelement UL 12.11" (retaining wall element UL 12.11), was the final and most sophisticated version of the Wall. Begun in 1975[62] and completed about 1980,[63] it was constructed from 45,000 separate sections of reinforced concrete, each 3.6 metres (12 ft) high and 1.2 metres (3.9 ft) wide, and cost DDM16,155,000 or about US$3,638,000.[64] The concrete provisions added to this version of the Wall were done to prevent escapees from driving their cars through the barricades.[65] At strategic points, the Wall was constructed to a somewhat weaker standard, so that East German and Soviet armored vehicles could easily break through in the event of war.[66]

 

The top of the wall was lined with a smooth pipe, intended to make it more difficult to scale. The Wall was reinforced by mesh fencing, signal fencing, anti-vehicle trenches, barbed wire, dogs on long lines, "beds of nails" (also known as "Stalin's Carpet") under balconies hanging over the "death strip", over 116 watchtowers,[67] and 20 bunkers with hundreds of guards. This version of the Wall is the one most commonly seen in photographs, and surviving fragments of the Wall in Berlin and elsewhere around the world are generally pieces of the fourth-generation Wall. The layout came to resemble the inner German border in most technical aspects, except that the Berlin Wall had no landmines nor spring-guns.[61]"

 

"There were nine border crossings between East and West Berlin. These allowed visits by West Berliners, other West Germans, Western foreigners and Allied personnel into East Berlin, as well as visits by GDR citizens and citizens of other socialist countries into West Berlin, provided that they held the necessary permits. These crossings were restricted according to which nationality was allowed to use it (East Germans, West Germans, West Berliners, other countries). The most famous was the vehicle and pedestrian checkpoint at the corner of Friedrichstraße and Zimmerstraße, also known as Checkpoint Charlie, which was restricted to Allied personnel and foreigners.[68]"

 

"Checkpoint Charlie (or "Checkpoint C") was the name given by the Western Allies to the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War (1947–1991).

 

East German leader Walter Ulbricht agitated and maneuvered to get the Soviet Union's permission to construct the Berlin Wall in 1961 to stop Eastern Bloc emigration and defection westward through the Soviet border system, preventing escape across the city sector border from communist East Berlin into West Berlin. Checkpoint Charlie became a symbol of the Cold War, representing the separation of East and West. Soviet and American tanks briefly faced each other at the location during the Berlin Crisis of 1961.

 

After the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc and the reunification of Germany, the building at Checkpoint Charlie became a tourist attraction. It is now located in the Allied Museum in the Dahlem neighborhood of Berlin."

 

"Every stone bears witness to the moral bankruptcy of the society it encloses" - Margaret Thatcher

 

"Two thousand years ago, the proudest boast was civis romanus sum ["I am a Roman citizen"]. Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is "Ich bin ein Berliner!"... All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words

Ich bin ein Berliner!" - JFK

 

On 6 June 1987, David Bowie, who earlier for several years lived and recorded in West Berlin, played a concert close to the Wall. This was attended by thousands of Eastern concertgoers across the Wall,[79] followed by violent rioting in East Berlin. According to Tobias Ruther, these protests in East Berlin were the first in the sequence of riots that led to those of November 1989.[80][81] Although other factors were probably more influential in the fall of the Wall,[79] on his death, the German Foreign Office tweeted "Good-bye, David Bowie. You are now among #Heroes. Thank you for helping to bring down the #wall."[82]

 

 

 

And now what most people do not know about:

 

In some European capitals at the time, there was a deep anxiety over prospects for a reunified Germany. In September 1989, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher pleaded with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev not to let the Berlin Wall fall and confided that she wanted the Soviet leader to do what he could to stop it.[98][99]

 

"We do not want a united Germany. This would lead to a change to postwar borders and we cannot allow that because such a development would undermine the stability of the whole international situation and could endanger our security," Thatcher told Gorbachev.[98]

 

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, French President François Mitterrand warned Thatcher that a unified Germany could make more ground than Adolf Hitler ever had and that Europe would have to bear the consequences.[100] - Wikipedia

 

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[Shlomo]

Analog reality in a digital world

 

Leica M10, Leica Summilux 21/1.4

 

 

 

Strong Image! - Could be a part of this thread as well : https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/277197-berliner-luft/

 

Warmest greetings: Reza.

[TheGodParticle/Hari]

You never listen to me

 

M10, 35/1.4 FLE

 

[TheGodParticle/Hari]

Strong Image! - Could be a part of this thread as well : https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/277197-berliner-luft/

 

Warmest greetings: Reza.

Thank you, Reza.

Interesting thread, I will participate since I love Berlin and I’m there quite often

[tonyniev]

3 image panorama, Messina harbor M10 and Elmarit 28 mm

 

 

 

Link for larger image https://photos.smugmug.com/Photography/2017-Vacation-Messina/i-nVDcDDF/0/8823ae7f/X3/L1002643-Pano-X3.jpg

 

 

Edited November 12, 2017 by tonyniev

[Keith_W]

You never listen to me

 

M10, 35/1.4 FLE

 

 

This is pure art! The light on the woman's face, the cat yawning, shadows scuttling around doing their own business ... I love it. If I shot this one, I would be extremely pleased. Congratulations, love it! 

[TheGodParticle/Hari]

This is pure art! The light on the woman's face, the cat yawning, shadows scuttling around doing their own business ... I love it. If I shot this one, I would be extremely pleased. Congratulations, love it!

Thank you for the kind words Keith, this is one of my personal all time favorites too

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Summicron M 35mm/f2 V1

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M10 | DR Summicron-50 | ISO 6400 | f/5.6 | 1/750 sec

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