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👁️ An shadowy arcade leading to a sunlit archway, with a Romanesque stone carving along on wall
📍 Church of Peace (Friedenskirche), Potsdam
📅 7 Mar 2025
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 100, ƒ22, -0.7 ev, 1/5s (long exposure)

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👁️ A statue of a young woman and two small children looks out from the shade behind two weathered stone columns
📍 French Reformed (Huguenot) Church, Potsdam
📅 2 Mar 2025
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 100, ƒ22, -1.3 ev, 1/160s

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ii.

in petrified motion
in the shadows around
and singing her journey
while making no sound.

Through the scents
of budding fruit trees,
I smelled her sweet taste
that wafts from the frieze

in permanent flight
to who knows where,
determination etched
into her beautiful stare.

Her journey’s unending
yet close to her goal
of the path itself being
the pulse in her soul.

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👁️ Brightly painted doors and windows in stone buildings in a steeply sloped pedestrian zone full of tourists and shoppers
📍 West Bow/Victoria Street, Edinburgh
📅 22 Aug 2024
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 500, ƒ3.5, -0.3 ev, 1/400s

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👁️ A magnolia bud opens to reveal a deep red blossom, while other buds are just starting to open
📍 Potsdam
📅 5 Apr 2025
📸 Nikon D5600
⚪️ Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G
🎞️ ISO 100, ƒ3.5, -1.0 ev, 1/400s

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ii.

Through icy trial,
through painful strife,
the buds have kept
the scent of life —
emerging through nails
of rosebush spikes,
overcoming the cold’s
mocking spite.

Five blossoms reveal
their sanguine red
and magnolia again
shall rise from the dead.

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