The Tiergarten is a five-hundred twenty-acre public park in central Berlin.
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The Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister in the Zwinger Palace provided us opportunity in view masterpieces including those by Raphael, Vermeer and Rembrandt.
Authenticity is important to me and I travel to the places where my stories are set. Wherever I go, I take photographs and, when working on a writing project, refer to them. My pictures draw me deeper into the world I am imagining and studying them helps me parse words and fine-tune the images I want to create for the reader.
My digital camera is always in my shirt pocket and I snap pictures as I amble and stroll. If I have an evening engagement, I tuck it inside a small purse. I bring extra memory cards, two batteries and a charger. My husband also has a camera, memory cards, batteries and a charger. He carries his with him so if something happens to mine, I have his.
Except for a few family photographs, I have taken all of those posted on my website. I am attached to the photograph of the old stone cottage on the cover of my historical fiction, The Inheritance. I took this picture in 2004 during my first genealogical and writing research trip to Calabria, southern Italy. I’d just visited Mottafollone, the mountain village where my Nana Caterina was born when I saw this crumbling structure. Her early life in Calabria from 1897 to 1913 inspired me to pen this tale and the cottage proved to be an ideal representation of the story.
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The photographs in this blog were from a June 2014 trip to Germany. Perhaps one of them will be featured on the cover of a future book. I hope you enjoy them.
Do you have a special photograph? I’d welcome your comments.
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The Zwinger Palace, formerly part of the city’s fortress, is now a museum complex.
Steiff Teddy Bears from the KaDeWe Department Store in Berlin are a keepsake souvenir.
Germany’s National Holocaust Memorial is located in Berlin.
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The River Spree meanders through Berlin and boat cruises showcase the city from a splendid perspective.
World War Two bombing destroyed much of Dresden and the Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady) was rebuilt after Germany’s reunification.
Berlin was designed capital of reunified Federal Republic of Germany in 1991 and the Reichstag is the Parliamentary Building.
