Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: agfa apx 100 iso n80 jonsearlesphoto

This was one of the most difficult photos that I took on my whole visit to Berlin, as they wouldn't let me take my tripod into the museum, so I had to wedge the camera between some things, I forget exactly what. Somehow, in spite of this, and in spite of shooting Agfa APX, which is only a 100 ISO film, I managed to get a reasonably crisp shot in lighting that was so dark it was even noticable to the human eye.

This is the Berlin Technical Museum....or whatever that is in German. I've forgotten. :-) The airplane, unless I'm wrong (please someone correct me if I'm wrong) is a Douglas DC-3, which was closely related to the C-47 Skytrains used during the Berlin airlift.

This technically bad, blurred, photo was shot from a train, as this was about the only chance I got to see Tempelhof, and I didn't want to pass it up. As Wikipedia says, "Designated by the ministry of transportation on October 8, 1923, Tempelhof is the world's oldest commercial airport, and the world's first airport being connected to a subway-network in 1927." That's something very impressive to me, especially when you consider that it was also the first with restaurants and shops like modern airports, all 25 years before the first jet airliners. It has long enough runways to take 747 jumbo jets, but aircraft visiting Tempelhof are often expected to taxi under certain overhead bridges in the airport that were constructed long before aircraft got so large, so today most planes using Tempelhof are very small by the standards of modern airliners, and there has been talk of closing the airport. I hope myself that it will survive as a museum, and I would support any such effort to preserve it.

And...here it is, an active rail facility, Bruckenmeisterei Werkstatt, still in existence in a railyard that's been abandoned for so long that trees are growing through the tracks and the whole place has become a park. I wasn't trespassing when I took this, by the way, but rather I found a crack in the door just barely big enough for my lens, and then I had to crop this before I posted it. That train sitting there, by the way, is an old untergrundbahn, or subway/metro train, and I have no idea what it's doing here.

Very oddly, the Bruckenmeisterei shed isn't considered part of the park, and is in fact still occupied.

This is the coal bunker at Bruckenmeisterei shed, and very surprisingly it still has coal in it, although indeed everything is surprising in this yard-turned-park.