Contributions of the group Fascination of Technology

Deutsches Technikmuseum

nobody@ipernity.com (bonsai59) — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:30:55 +0000

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Das Deutsche Technikmuseum, bis 1996 Museum für Verkehr und Technik, ist ein 1983 eröffnetes technisches Museum in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
Das Museum sieht sich als Nachfolgeinstitution verschiedener technischer Museen, die es in Berlin bis zum Zweiten Weltkrieg gab, wie etwa des Verkehrs- und Baumuseums (im Hamburger Bahnhof). Seine 26.500 m² Ausstellungsfläche befinden sich auf dem Gelände des ehemaligen Bahnbetriebswerks und Güterbahnhofs des Anhalter Bahnhofs.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsches_Technikmuseum

Industrial Stockholm, Recast

nobody@ipernity.com (m̌ ḫ) — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:35:57 +0000

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Originally, this was a grain mill built in the 1890s for Holmberg & Möller, when Stockholm was expanding quickly and needed large modern facilities to handle food imports by sea. Grain arrived here by ship, was processed on site, and fed directly into the economy of a growing capital.

Now the old mill has a very different life. The main surviving building is the Elite Hotel Marina Tower, while other preserved parts of the former industrial complex have been converted into housing. The wider waterfront around it is now part of a residential district, with public quay space and ferry connections linking it back into everyday Stockholm.

HFF Harbin Manchuria China 20th October 1983

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:53:19 +0000

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Steam on the Chinese main lines was still commonplace way back in autumn 1983 & I spent 3 weeks on a Railway Transport & Photography tour savouring it.

These China Railways QJ 2-10-2 locomotives add their contributions to the general early morning fug hanging over Harbin engine shed as they are prepared for the road.

HFF to everyone. Have a cracking weekend!

Le long de La Veules .

nobody@ipernity.com (Jean-louis Thiaudiere) — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:48:23 +0000

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The Citadel That Refused a Single Reality

nobody@ipernity.com (m̌ ḫ) — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:20:17 +0000

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Hanoi’s citadel has been rebuilt, looted, moved, and partly erased, yet it still refuses to die. It began as a Chinese fortress, then in 1010 the ruler moved his capital there after seeing a dragon omen on the Red River, and it remained Vietnam’s political heart for almost 1,000 years. Later another dynasty shifted power to Huế and reused materials from the old citadel, and the French more or less finished the job in the late 1800s by demolishing most of it for barracks and offices.

What’s left feels like a dignified ruin that knows it used to matter. You can still see the Flag Tower, the cannon‑scarred North Gate, the main gate, the former palace platform with stone dragons, a so‑called “Princess’ Palace,” sections of old walls and gates, and an underground war bunker. Archaeologists nearby keep uncovering palace foundations and fragments, which helped turn the site into a UNESCO World Heritage area, even though at first glance it looks like “some gates, a flag tower, and a lot of empty space.”

This makes my photograph oddly fitting: a real image on historic Orwo film that has survived its own small saga. First the film was mishandled and accidentally double‑exposed, then I mis‑set the film speed on the camera, and in the final act a local lab misunderstood it and developed it as black and white, after which the negative had to be painstakingly rescued, as if it insisted on telling the story anyway. While I was photographing this, I somehow managed to lose my wallet, only for it to turn up later in my hotel’s garage, where I had taken my bicycle before cycling to the citadel, so taking this photo became a miniature version of its history: things get lost, nearly erased, and yet somehow find their way back into the narrative.

Under the bridge

nobody@ipernity.com (m̌ ḫ) — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:26:25 +0000

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A thousand teak logs jammed in ancient mud, 
Recycled from a palace — what a stud. 
The joints don’t need a nail, just faith and fit, 
While concrete neighbors say, “You’re full of… grit.
Eight centuries of footsteps, floods, and fuss
 The bridge still stands. Can’t say the same for us.

More about U Bein Bridge at stickymangorice.com/2023/11/01/u-bein-bridge

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nobody@ipernity.com (Howard Kilgour) — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 17:14:31 +0000

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Driver is giving a peace sign

Modern Bratislava

nobody@ipernity.com (m̌ ḫ) — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:25:09 +0000

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This view from Nivy Tower captures Bratislava’s transformation in one frame. The tall glass tower on the right is Eurovea Tower at 168 meters — when it opened in 2023, Bratislava became the 201st city worldwide to have a true skyscraper. What was an industrial wasteland is now a cluster of high-rises that changed the city’s entire profile. The Mlynské nivy port district had been devastated since 1944, when Allied bombers targeted the Apollo refinery supplying Nazi fuel — 370 tons of bombs killed hundreds as burning oil engulfed their shelters. The contaminated ruins sat abandoned for decades until the 2000s redevelopment finally erased that wartime scar.

Der Maschinentempel

nobody@ipernity.com (Mecklenburg-Foto (Reinhard L.)) — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:04:43 +0000

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Als "Maschinentempel" wird, sicher wegen der Formgestaltung, die Hochdruck-Dampfmaschine des mecklenburgischen Erfinders und Industriepioniers Dr. Ernst Alban bezeichnet.
Zu sehen ist sie jetzt im Burgmuseum in Plau am See.
Weitere Informationen im PiP.

Hertfordshire countryside house of Henry Moore

nobody@ipernity.com (m̌ ḫ) — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 16:02:36 +0000

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Large Reclining Figure is the product of Moore’s fourth and final collaboration with the architect I. M. Pei. In 1976, one of Pei’s most ambitious projects opened in Singapore: a fifty-two storey skyscraper – then the tallest in South East Asia – for the Overseas-Chinese Banking Corporation. Pei had wanted to site a major sculptural commission at the base of the building, but it was several years before a suitable space became available. When Pei approached Moore about the commission, he was fearful of his response. Moore – by now in his eighties - had already told Pei that he was no longer producing monumental sculptures and that he was concentrating on producing drawings for the Foundation. He conceded, however, that it might be possible if the commission were based on an existing work.

Further reading: catalogue.henry-moore.org/objects/14059/large-reclining-figure

Face to Face with the Silent Engine

nobody@ipernity.com (m̌ ḫ) — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:06:44 +0000

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The Deutsches Technikmuseum’s railway halls feel like stepping into a living locomotive depot: restored 19th‑century roundhouses, wooden beams and turntables set the scene for over 40 full‑size locomotives and carriages you can view closely — a dream for photographers and history lovers. The displays mix engineering marvels (steam, diesel, electric and urban stock) with everyday objects — tickets, dining‑car crockery and uniforms — so you understand how railways changed cities, work and daily life.

Importantly, the museum does something few institutions do so plainly: it faces the darkest chapter of railway history by presenting a freight wagon and contextual exhibits about the Deutsche Reichsbahn’s role in Nazi deportations, placing victims’ stories, timetables and maps alongside the machines. That choice is a bold, responsible stance — it refuses to glamorize technology and instead shows how ordinary systems were used for extraordinary crimes, which educates visitors and strengthens public memory.

ARC - I/S Amager Ressourcecenter

nobody@ipernity.com (m̌ ḫ) — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:07:28 +0000

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Amager Bakke (Copenhill) is a striking, angular building whose entire mass is wrapped in a shimmering “brick” façade of stacked aluminum panels, giving it an almost pixelated, industrial sculpture look. Its most famous feature is the sloping roof that becomes a full‑length artificial ski slope with green surface in summer and snow in winter, flanked by walking paths and a dramatic outdoor climbing wall on one side. Large, square openings and a clean, minimalistic profile make the plant read more like a contemporary cultural venue or art museum than a conventional incinerator, especially when illuminated at night. Behind this expressive architecture, the facility works as a combined heat‑and‑power plant, turning the city’s non‑recyclable waste into both district heating and electricity for surrounding households.

Rotating Bench Monday RBM!

nobody@ipernity.com (FarbFormFreude) — Mon, 11 May 2026 06:24:33 +0000

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Ist unser Leben nur noch umhergeschleudert werden ? Auf und ab geschmissen werden ? Sind krampfhaften Festhalten und hysterisches Lachen unsere einzigen Optionen ? Und zahlen wir auch noch dafür ?
Haben wir den inneren Kompass verloren ? Wissen wir nicht mehr, was wichtig ist in unserem Leben ? Überlassen wir uns hilflos der Spaßgesellschaft ?

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nobody@ipernity.com (FarbFormFreude) — Sun, 03 May 2026 11:05:53 +0000

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Way of travelling here

nobody@ipernity.com (m̌ ḫ) — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:39:54 +0000

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A very authentic scene of cramped local transport in Northern Thailand on the road to Mae Salong, with people packed into a songthaew or small minibus — a village perched high on Doi Mae Salong ridge, near the Myanmar border, whose access roads were little more than mountain tracks barely paved in time for vehicles to replace pack horses.

In 2012, the minibus service ran only until early afternoon and public transport remained notoriously sparse, leaving hill tribe communities — Akha, Lahu, Lisu, and the Chinese descendants of KMT soldiers — with no real alternative to squeezing into whatever shared truck happened to be making the climb.

Sitzgitter

nobody@ipernity.com (menonfire) — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:39:18 +0000

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... sind nicht besonders bequem in der U4 Linie zu Hamburg.
HBM werte Fotofreunde und eine gute Woche!

11. IMA-Treffen Hamburg

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nobody@ipernity.com (FarbFormFreude) — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 07:04:31 +0000

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Zubizuri at night

nobody@ipernity.com (Heidiho) — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:16:14 +0000

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ZUBIZURI (baskisch: "die weiße Brücke") ist eine Fußgängerbrücke mitten in Bilbao, die den Stadtfluss Nervion überspannt. Nur 450m flussabwärts folgt die Straßenbrücke Da Silva und das Guggenheim-Museum.

Die von Santiago Calatrava 1990 entworfene und zwischen 1994 und 1997 errichtete Stabbogenbrücke ist 75 m lang und führt ihren 4 m breiten Gehweg in einer Biegung über den Fluss.

Hello

nobody@ipernity.com (m̌ ḫ) — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 07:58:40 +0000

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I was playing with a special cinema lens that I had adapted to my Nikon. The Isco Cinelux 50/1.6, made for professional film projection, turned my small kitchen into a night‑time film set. Late at night, with only the warm lights on, the triple‑glazed window acted like a complicated mirror, stacking reflections of me and the room into one glowing image. The lens turned those reflections into soft circles and swirls of light, so the scene felt half real and half like a dream. Each photo looked less like a simple snapshot and more like a frame from an unknown movie. In the end I sold the lens, but the buyer only wanted the glass, not my homemade adapter. Letting it go left me slightly sad, as if I had taken apart a private experiment in night‑time cinema. I hope he found his own way to use it well.

Spy Satellite Target

nobody@ipernity.com (Robert Swanson) — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:32:00 +0000

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Taken in the desert near Casa Grande, Arizona. These markers are located close to the RV park where we spent many winters.

The "target" is a group of concrete pads in that shape. There is a benchmark in the exact center. The operators of the spy satellites would take photos of these markers, and then check their locations against the exact positioning of the benchmark.

Image taken with phone and processed with GIMP.