Throwback Dec 10, 2009. View from my back-then office window. Early morning. Originally posted to Facebook.
Throwback Dec 8, 2012. What seems to have been a frosty winter morning. The building on the right, socialist modernism in slow decay, back then only contained a bunch of smaller stores, a walk-in laundry service and a carpenter workshop. And disappeared a couple of years later, making room for a discounter superstore and parking lots. Time passes, and structures change, not necessarily for the better.
Throwback Dec 7, 2014. Most likely on the St. Nicolas Christmas Market that used to happen once every year in Dresden, at least until the pandemic struck. (Initially posted to Facebook. Interesting to browse through the old comments, nine years later, and the profiles that left them. Seems at some point everyone over there turned into a quiet left-open account and public sink for annual birthday wishes but without further activity or interaction.)
Throwback Dec 4, 2014. On the road, Berlin. Lunch break during a business trip. Somewhere near Treptower Park I guess. Poor quality again compared to most of todays cameras and shots; back then again it was more "instant" point-shoot-send. And usually immediately ended up in shorter communications with locals asking or recommending things. This strange kind of interaction was unique to "early" Instagram days and seems missing on virtually any other network ever since.
Throwback Dec 1, 2012. Stars. Originally posted to Instagram in my early months there, still embracing that idea and possibilities of immediate pictures and permanently carrying a usable camera.
