Though my travels are months ago,
2013 ends with many memories,
new and old adventures,
old friends,
and new friends
and a great deal of images...

To end the Berlin series,
I thought of the soaring tower of the bombed out but partially restored Neue Synagogue,
still centred in the heart of old Jewish area around Hackescher Markt.

I thought of it partially as a haunted memory of so much tragedy,
but also,
because it is still there,
and still part of Berlin,
as it moves forward...
Like all of us...

And just being...
In Berlin's urban tapestry.

Nikon D600,  28mm-70mm AFD Nikkor lens.

The Berlin urban symphony,
hanging out, listening, and watching
performing and...
just being.

Image 1, An outdoor Sunday performance by the Berliner Symphony Orchestra  on Unter Den Linden.
Image 2 and 3, Bicycle powered Karaoke performances in front of thousands in Maurer Park.
Image 4, Maurer Park flea market, everything is for sale...
Image 5 and 6, Improvised music performances in Volkspark Friedrichshain, for who ever shows up.
Nikon D600, 28mm-70mm AFD Nikkor lens.

And best of all,
In a city seemly obsessed by order,
there is spontaneous disorder
everywhere...

and just hanging out...
Nikon D600.

Order,
and people starting to screw it up...

Berlin...
Nikon D600, 105mm F2.8 AFD Nikkor lens.

Order...

Image 1, Nazi era Luftwaffe Headquarters, (Now the Ministry of Finance) Wilhelmstrasse, Berlin.
Image 2, Greek arcade (complete with 1945 era battle damage) at the entrance to the Pergamon Museum on Museum Island, Berlin.
Nikon D600, 50mm F1.4 AFD Nikkor lens.

My favourite formal living room...
Berlin's Gendarmenmarkt.

Matching and heavily reconstructed churches the Deutscher Dom and the Franzosisher Dom at either end of the square with the Konzerthaus as it's centre piece.
Nikon D600, 28mm-70mm AFD Nikkor lens.