{"id":812,"date":"2013-10-28T22:22:49","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T20:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/?p=812"},"modified":"2013-10-29T22:55:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T20:55:29","slug":"views-of-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/?p=812","title":{"rendered":"views of berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>berlin really is a fascination of it&#8217;s own.<\/p>\n<p>I first fell in love with this city during a 5-day-stay back in 2010, when I visited microsoft&#8217;s tech ed conference. sadly I had little time during daylight to explore this city, so I promised myself to return soon. during our ski holidays in 2011 we got to know a couple from berlin and stayed in contact since then, which opened up the window for a 3 day visit of my wife after easter in the year after &#8211; an opportunity I missed due to a scheduling conflict :(<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/rf_20130602_DSCF4067_AS_dev1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-839 aligncenter\" alt=\"rf_20130602_DSCF4067_AS_dev\" src=\"http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/rf_20130602_DSCF4067_AS_dev1.jpg\" width=\"806\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/rf_20130602_DSCF4067_AS_dev1.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/rf_20130602_DSCF4067_AS_dev1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/rf_20130602_DSCF4067_AS_dev1-575x383.jpg 575w, http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/rf_20130602_DSCF4067_AS_dev1-800x533.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/rf_20130602_DSCF4067_AS_dev1-850x566.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 806px) 100vw, 806px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>so we had to come back this year in early summer and enjoyed rain and sun both together. returning to already known places (alex, main station, government district, ..) went along with exploring new sites (tempelhof airfield, pergamon museum, kreuzberg-district, &#8220;oberbaum&#8221;-bridge, boat trip on the river spree, berlin wall).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/rf_20130604_DSCF4449_AS_dev.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-800 aligncenter\" alt=\"rf_20130604_DSCF4449_AS_dev\" src=\"http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/rf_20130604_DSCF4449_AS_dev.jpg\" width=\"806\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/rf_20130604_DSCF4449_AS_dev.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/rf_20130604_DSCF4449_AS_dev-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/rf_20130604_DSCF4449_AS_dev-575x383.jpg 575w, http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/rf_20130604_DSCF4449_AS_dev-800x533.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/rf_20130604_DSCF4449_AS_dev-850x566.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 806px) 100vw, 806px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s the unique combination of new urban life and architecture with the monuments of history, this cultural mixture of it&#8217;s inhabitants and crowdy tourists, a neverending, permanent reinvention of districts and areas, which condenses to an incomparable location and generates this unique feeling of having seen not only one sole, but many different cities at once. I never missed the mountains &amp; hills of my home town for a second, although berlin really is embedded in a flat countryside.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/rf_20130604_DSCF4408_AS_dev.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-793 aligncenter\" alt=\"rf_20130604_DSCF4408_AS_dev\" src=\"http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/rf_20130604_DSCF4408_AS_dev.jpg\" width=\"768\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/rf_20130604_DSCF4408_AS_dev.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/rf_20130604_DSCF4408_AS_dev-300x162.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/rf_20130604_DSCF4408_AS_dev-575x310.jpg 575w, http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/rf_20130604_DSCF4408_AS_dev-800x432.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/rf_20130604_DSCF4408_AS_dev-850x459.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>berlin &#8211; a photographer&#8217;s dream! it doesn&#8217;t matter if you&#8217;re more attracted by humans or patterns and geometry &#8211; as I am &#8211; if you like it more historic or if you admire avant-garde, you can have it all &#8211; no need to decide!<br \/>\nso let me take you through a <em><strong><a title=\"revisiting berlin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/?gallery=revisiting-berlin\">journey<\/a><\/strong><\/em> of expressive pictures <a href=\"http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/?gallery=revisiting-berlin\"><em><strong>here<\/strong><\/em><\/a> &#8211; all taken with my fuji x-pro 1 with the xf18-55 zoom. I really like the image quality of the x-trans-sensor. pictures were taken with filmsimulation set to astia and developed in corel aftershot with the help of Sean Pucketts fabulous plugin nostalgia. ironically I really prefer the fuji films settings (astia, provia, sensia and some times velvia :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>berlin really is a fascination of it&#8217;s own. I first fell in love with this city during a 5-day-stay back in 2010, when I visited microsoft&#8217;s tech ed conference. sadly I had little time during daylight to explore this city, so I promised myself to return soon. during our ski holidays in 2011 we got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[28,34,29],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975,"href":"http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions\/975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.refro.at\/refroto\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}