Blurring Lines:
Pic 1: This is a nice picture of Emily at Rosenthaler Platz U-Bahn station, along with the train coming onto the platform behind her. The long exposure means a nice blurry train, but also a slightly blurry Emily in the foreground. One of my favourites this time, but perhaps would be better on less grainy Ilford film (as in the last roll).
Pic 2: Rosenthaler Platz from St Oberholz, again with the issue that it was a long exposure and thus slightly blurry overall. The car headlamps streaming across the centre of the picture, and the lines on the road, are a satisfying pattern nonetheless.
Pic 3: Norweger Straße, the street along which the Wall ran. This is more a German-language convoluted joke. That the Wall used to be on this street and that there is a sign stating Keine Wendemöglichkeit is amusing but requires too much explanation here, I think!
I actually like the blurriness of the train picture, and the fact that my hair is being kind of blown forward by the train. Good leading lines, too. Maybe you need a tripod next…
Also, the picture of Rosenthaler Platz is awesome because it seems (to me) that you never really get that view of an intersection… Seems like I never have that high vantage point with enough of a wide angle to really see the whole thing. Anyway, blurry traffic lights are fun.
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