Urban Parks - Berlin (3)

What would Berlin parks be without some walls?

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©2009 Daniel Marchand

©2009 Daniel Marchand

©2009 Daniel Marchand

Urban Parks - Berlin (2)

From the Berlin Zoo, which I think is a great inner city park. I will not comment on the treatment of animals however.

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©2009 Daniel Marchand

©2009 Daniel Marchand

Urban Parks - Berlin (1)

From Tiergarten in Berlin:

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©2009 Daniel Marchand

©2009 Daniel Marchand

©2009 Daniel Marchand

Urban Parks - London (3)

More of Battersea Park

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©2009 Daniel Marchand

Urban Parks - London (2)

Garden adjacent to the Tate Modern in London:

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Pond in Battersea Park, London:

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Parks in Capitals

When we accepted the suggestion of friends to travel to London in November to take in some theatre, I thought of adding a photographic assignment to the journey. We planned a one-week stay in London for which we rented a flat on New Globe Way with this view of St-Paul's Cathedral.

We decided to spend an extra week in Europe and visit Berlin for the first time and end up in Paris for Paris Photo.

For my "photographic assignment" I thought that I should concentrate on landscape and take only a film camera, the new Bessa III 667 by Voigtlander. Actually, I also packed the Holga for the fun of it, and the iPhone for the inevitable snapshots. My goal was to get photos of some urban parks in each of the cities visited and to juxtapose them with photos taken, also in November, in Ottawa. A visual comparison of sort of urban parks in four capitals cities, in the same month of November.

I will be posting some of the photos here over the next few days and weeks and hope to have a complete series ready for my website early in the new year.

Return to film for landscapes

I have neglected using film for my landscape photography recently. I find the 35mm too confining and the 4X5 too cumbersome and too heavy to walk around with. With the arrival of the new Bessa III folding camera, I think I have found a happy medium. Here are some of the first shots I have taken with this medium format camera:

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