view from my old bedroom in leith

berlin - raw remains

berlin is a formidable place.
it has over-rails, under-rails, light-rails, trams, bike lanes. she bares the remains and debris of her diabolical years. it is an emotional place and i feel very lucky to have experienced berlin, whilst she was blanketed within layer upon layer of silent snow.
in berlin - i fell in love.

I shot these photographs in RAW, which is how i shoot all my photographs when working with digital. i have decided to leave these photos as they where shot - raw being the essence of berlin as i saw it.

A Retort To Eddy

We cannot know his legendary head
with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso
is still suffused with brilliance from inside,
like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low,

gleams in all its power. Otherwise
the curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor could
a smile run through the placid hips and thighs
to that dark center where procreation flared.

Otherwise this stone would seem defaced
beneath the translucent cascade of the shoulders
and would not glisten like a wild beast’s fur:

would not, from all the borders of itself,
burst like a star: for here there is no place
that does not see you. You must change your life.

Rainer Maria Rilke
The Archaic Torso Of Apollo

Cleanliness is Next To Grubbiness - The Tomboy Project