Faded Glory
Just got back from Munich again, after spending two weeks there, one of them courtesy of the Iceland volcano. This train stop is across from the Olympic stadium. No doubt once a very busy place, it is now abandoned. I had driven past this point many times on the adjacent freeway on previous trips to Munich, and had been wanting to get some shots, but couldn’t find a way to easily get there. This time I was determined to get some photos. Not easy. I spent several hours on different occasions driving around the area, getting no where near it. This time despite a major tangle of freeway ramps behind the shot, and businesses, a school, and construction sites in front, I finally found my way there.
April 26th, 2010 at 6:58 am
Oh-no, glad you are back. It really messed up travel for a while didn’t it? Great photo.
April 26th, 2010 at 7:57 am
Awesome photo! Looks like it was worth the effort. The colors in the graffiti are a great contrast to the cold gray concrete.
April 27th, 2010 at 12:26 am
Buongiorno,
molto bella questa foto dove guardando le rotaie si capisce la fine di questa vecchia gloria !
Tristezza e malinconia insieme…
Felice settimana :-)
April 28th, 2010 at 5:47 am
Amazing that gang graffiti seems to be universal. It looks the same there as it would in any neighborhood here in the states. I’m not sure why that surprises me…… as if to suggest that it would have a different look to it…… but it does.
April 29th, 2010 at 7:26 am
I’m always curious about these abandonned places.
May 1st, 2010 at 8:30 am
I know that feeling of trying to get to a place for a photo but it’s difficult to get to. I’ve had it where you go to all that trouble and the image turns out not to be what you were thinking. Not the case here, nice one!
May 21st, 2010 at 6:09 am
Snap! What a fantastic image! I can empathize with the victory, after working so hard to find this, to actually get a shot this great must have been a joy. What a simply brutal edifice, socialist architecture looks amazing when it falls into disrepair. The ruins of the Romans and the Mayan look appropriate when consumed by nature because they were designed to reflect it, but the hellish nightmare of a collectivist’s utopia doesn’t play well with the real world. Let’s get together soon and go shooting.