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A simple selective colour slider. Selective colour lent itself to this image, I think. At first, I only desaturated the background, but it was still a little too distracting. The building in the background has a facade with lots of glass and is also clad in orange tiles so there was too much going on colour-wise.

As for the title: The traffic cone reminds me of a diva, a photo model, or even a screen goddess posing at a photoshoot for a fashion magazine – albeit in a somewhat grungy, scruffy Berlin fashion ;) The person responsible for putting up this traffic cone and the caution tape clearly took pride in his/her job, making the cone and the carefully draped streamer look like an urban "Gesamtkunstwerk" (total work of art).

HSS, Everyone!

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Laowa C-Dreamer 7.5mm F/2

It's been a while since I've "kaleidoscoped" an image, but this interior image of the modern roof of St. Matthäus-Kirche (St. Matthew church) at Berlin's Kulturforum lent itself to this type of processing because the single image is ever so slightly awry and not exactly centered. This is the most simple type of kaleidoscoping, I've only copied the image to a new layer, flipped both layers, and put them back together as a single image; finishing "this and that"-touches in LR, done.

St. Matthew is the only historical building left in this part of Berlin's Tiergarten district. The church building was constructed as a three-nave by Friedrich August Stüler, an exalted Prussian building official and one of the most important architects of his time. St. Matthew was inaugurated in 1846. Today, St. Matthew church is part of the so-called Kulturforum (Cultural Forum) that also houses the Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery), The Berliner Philharmonie, the Kammermusiksaal (Chamber Music Hall), and several museums.

In 1931, Lutheran theologist Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was a member of the Bekennende Kirche (Confessing Church) and a resistance fighter against the Nazi regime (he was murdered at concentration camp Flossenbürg only one month before the end of World War II), was ordained as St. Matthew's parson. Later, the Nazis planned to take down St. Matthew and rebuild it in Spandau because it was in the way of their megalomaniac plans to remodel Berlin as the so-called "Welthauptstadt Germania" (World Capital Germania). As a part of those plans, most of the local residential development had been taken down already before WWII. Allied bombings in WWII's last years finally foiled those plans but also left St. Matthew heavily damaged. After the war, only the church building's exterior was reconstructed true to the original, while the interior was rebuilt in an unpretentious, modern way.

Happy Sliders Sunday, everyone, and I wish you a great new week ahead!

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Explored November 5, 2023

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Photographer under observance and more "looking up" at the Upper West in Berlin's City West.

At a height of 119 meters (390 feet), the Upper West is the fourth-highest building in Berlin. The most prominent tenant is the hotel chain Motel One which occupies 19 of altogether 33 floors and offers 582 rooms. The Upper West's tower consists of two parallel structures, each of the same height but not symmetrical. The white, slightly shiny façade (which can be seen in the reflections) is interspersed with windows throughout.

Happy Sliders Sunday, everyone, and I wish you a great new week ahead!

Tags:   Sliders Sunday Post Processed to the MAX!!! Berlin Deutschland Germany Charlottenburg Upper West skyscraper highrise tower architecture curved windows sky observation camera CCTV camera POV Looking up white blue elegant OM System OM1 M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 7-14mm F2,8 ED PRO ThroughHerLens

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More clouds from the neighbourhood. We've been spoiled with some spectacular cloud formations and colourful sunsets lately and on Friday evening the sky was not only graced with particularly golden tones and clouds but also amazing sunbeams. It was quite a "Wow, look at this, must photograph!"-moment ;)

For the best possible dynamic range, I set the LX100 to "Auto Bracket 3BKT 1/3" (the camera's standard bracketing setting) and combined the images in HDR Efex which nicely brought out the clouds' and sunbeams' textures, and also the colours. As a final touch, I applied the "Skylight" filter (Color Efex) for more warmth.

Happy Sliders Sunday, Everyone, and have a wonderful week ahead!

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Explored August 21, 2023

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My second slider of the rare Mammatus cloud occurrence last Saturday. On the main street, I took a few shots of the clouds pointing the camera straight up into the sky while waiting for the pedestrians' traffic light to turn green. And since I knew that by shooting up into the sky tilting lines would be inevitable, I decided to embrace them and go full Dutch angle. I did some extra Sunday sliding in Color Efex and Luminar Neo to enhance the textures and colours.

Happy Sliders Sunday, Everyone, and have a wonderful week ahead!

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