When Steerforth put up his
Boring Postcards on Age of Uncertainty, I threatened to upload my photos from my trip to Germany in 1978, which I boasted would surely match, or possibly exceed, the boredom of his postcards. I took four rolls of film on that trip with my Minolta Pocket camera.
The pictures weren't that great, but I learned something. I took many more pictures with that handy Minolta than I ever took with the fancy-schmancy Pentax SLR I owned after the Minolta was stolen from my car glove compartment. Portability and simplicity might make the difference as to whether I actually capture something worthwhile.
We spent most of our two weeks in West Germany, and only a couple of nights in Berlin. I suppose Bowie and Eno were around somewhere at the time. If these snaps are anything to go by, boredom must have been a problem with "really-existing socialism". You be the judge.
Clicking on the
Behind the Iron Curtain link will take you to the whole album of 21 pictures.
2 comments:
Great photos. They certainly loved their appartment blocks in Eastern Europe.
I notice that there is a UFO in the third photo.
Looking at them now, I'm afraid that they fail to be as boring as your postcards. Oh well, I tried.
Yes, I see the UFO, three, actually!
What fun it was to see, years after The Wall came down, the film, Goodbye Lenin!
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