Berlin Victory Column During Winter Evening Light, originally uploaded by Chris Abraham.
In the Winter in Berlin getting both perfect light and a blue sky are pretty rare. And, as they say, photography (and videography) is “f8 and be there.”
So, check this out — pretty awesome-looking Berlin Siegessäule.
The Victory Column (German: About this sound Siegessäule is a famous monument in Berlin, Germany. Designed by Heinrich Strack after 1864 to commemorate the Prussian victory in the Danish-Prussian War, by the time it was inaugurated on 2 September 1873, Prussia had also defeated Austria in the Austro-Prussian War (1866) and France in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71), giving the statue a new purpose.
Different from the original plans, these later victories in the so-called unification wars inspired the addition of the bronze sculpture of Victoria, 8.3 meters high and weighing 35 tonnes, designed by Friedrich Drake. Berliners, with their fondness for giving nicknames to famous buildings, call the statue Goldelse, meaning something like “Golden Lizzy”. (via Wikipedia)
