35mm Film Scans

The private (though publicly viewable) chapel at the estate of one of the old German noble families (Hohenzollern?), near Friedrichshafen. What's especially cool about this particular church is the cieling decoration - it's plaster rocaille (sculpted flowers, leaves, and vines), all in shades of icy gray. It looks a little colorless in this photo, but that's the point - it's not gaudily colorful like other baroque/rococo churches, making it much more dignified and sophisticated looking.

Yeah, yeah...like Ludwig's castles, this is one of those touristy places everyone has to go when they visit Germany. Despite the air of kitsch, it was a pretty neat place.

The new island in the center of the caldera, as seen from Fira. Immediately behind it is Palea Kameni (sp?), and in the distance Aspronisi. To the right is Therassia, and to the left the arm of the main island. Note for scale the ferry, which is the size of a small cruise ship.

The famous circular temple at Delphi, looking in the general direction of "the sea of olives" in the valley below the ruins.

The temple of Apollo at Delphi.

The Corinth Canal at the neck of the Pelopponesian ithsmus, originally begun by Nero but not completed until the 19th century. It's as deep as it looks (a good 200ft down).

The Erechtheion, on the Acropolis in Athens.

As seen from the other major hill in Athens, whose name I forget, on the way towards the Roman city.

Kaiser Wilhelm Gedaechtniskirche, Berlin. It was actually quite well-preserved inside. It's a pity they didn't rebuild it after the war (it's more an eyesore than a memorial in its current state). One of the other Tech interns, Ed, is in the lower right.

The falls on the Rhein at Schaffhausen. Didn't realize until we got on the bus back to the train station and had to pay in Swiss francs instead of Deutschmarks that we had at some point crossed over the border unawares.

The old bishop's fortress on the hill overlooking Wuerzburg.

The bridge into the old town, Wuerzburg.

The courtyard of the bishop's palace, Wuerzburg.

A remaining portion of the Berlin Wall, with the famous protest murals painted on it.

Inside the Berlin cathedral on Museum Island, a stone's throw from the Ballast of the Republik, the Rotes Rathaus, and the Alexanderplatz television tower.

With the quadriga facing the right way. When this was taken in 1995, the gate and the area around it had just been cleared and restored -- but as an open plaza with the gate in the middle. Imagine my surprise (not knowing any better) to see it again in 2002 with buildings build up all around it, including the rebuilt Hotel Adlon.

Four of the other ten interns from Michigan Tech working in Germany that summer, in the Koenigsplatz in front of the Reichstag: from right, Ed, Mary, Alex, and a girl whose name I have completely forgotten. This was no more than a week after Christo wrapped the place, and before reconstruction started to turn the building back into the seat of the (reunified) German Bundestag. See here for a picture of the inside of the new kuppel , which doesn't exist yet in this photo.

The day before I left Essen, I decided I had to find this place that I'd seen in a coffee-table book about the metro area. It was too weird to pass up. It was actually rather difficult to find, but I ended up stumbling across it just as I was about to give up, having walked through way too many garden allotments and gotten too many dirty looks. What this is is a (former) monument to the Freikorps or paramilitaries of the early interwar period, in ways the forerunners of the SA thug squads which Hitler later rode to power. The monument has long since been stripped of its bronze memorial plaques, and is now just a Stonehenge-like ring of brick columns topped with either concrete or stone ashlars. For scale, note the woman sitting on top of the ring, reading (just left of center).