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Global Lunacy


Global Lunacy
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Copyright: Dirk Jansen van Rensburg (xvs1100) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 142 W: 51 N: 132] (958)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-08-30
Categories: Architecture
Camera: Fujifilm Finepix S3500
Exposure: f/2.8, 1/60 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-09-25 8:38
Viewed: 522
Points: 2
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
This image is not supposed to be beautiful or pleasing. It shouldn't be nice to look at or a work of art.

It is a gory monument to the all too common phenomenon of global madness.

It is an underground bunker. Constructed for refugees in the case of a possible nuclear fallout during the cold war in Berlin.

It could house 800 people and was self contained with bathrooms and a kitchen. It came with its own air filtration system and electricity generator.

Accommodation was spartan to say the least, as you can see.

Isn't it utter craziness? Fortunately I didn't have to add it under the Category of "Daily Life".

I cropped the original, filtered through green and B&W and added film grain and adjusted shadows and highlites and added the red frame.
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Hi Dirk,
When you enter a bunker like this, you will never forget the impression it leaves.....
But living through the cold-war years there was all kinds of craziness here in Europe, especially among those people who survived WWII - we had special (I think Jodium) tablets ready in case of nuclear fall-out and an emergency supply in the tiny tiny cellar under our house - yes this sure brings back memories.
Els

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