Berlin (4) Botanical Garden

Another set of images from Berlin. An afternoon at the Botanical Garden, the better part of which in the magnificent tropical greenhouse - a beautiful construction I did not take enough pictures of... We spent so much time inside we had only a short time to stroll through a very small part of the gardens themselves (they are huge). It's definitely the kind of place that is so rich one doesn't really know where to look - I'd need to set a theme to follow on different visits in order to coax ideas out of all that is there...

1 The botanical museum, through which one enters the gardens




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4 Water plants (unidentified)




5 Interesting shadow and light games throughout




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8 The main greenhouse structure from inside




9 ...and from out




10 A secondary greenhouse (closed to the public)




11 And a fun image waiting for us as we left

Love no 9. These old gardens have a majesty about them

Enlarge these by a few hundred percent and print them on high quality B&W paper and you've got yourself your own quality min exhibition. Your mastery of monochrome is so good

V nice Serge... particularly like the feel of 4 and 5... 4 for the light and 5 for the perfect framing of the shadow... 7 is interesting... thought it might be part of the ceiling, before realising it was a leaf... 8 has a similar sense about it (although in this case it’s the ceiling)... a gd example for me of the advantage of a set over a series of one off pics... 11apart, for me there’s an idea here that’s about form and structure that plays out over both the natural and man made subjects...

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Thank you for your thoughts. Indeed, Peter, majestic they are. Lenny - much appreciated. Bill, 7 & 8 work together indeed, but I hadn't extrapolated that to the set as a whole - glad you pointed that out for me.