Neptun over the fence

It would have been possible to go to Wuhlheide, where the narrow-gauge railway season had just opened, but my son expressed a desire to visit Holzmarkt 25, so we headed there first. We didn’t stay long: the place is popular, but small, and even on a cool yet sunny spring day quite a crowd had gathered. We didn’t last long — we walked a bit along the river, I photographed “Marie” by the pier, and the family decided to change locations.

After a short deliberation, we went to Alexanderplatz. My wife and son went into “Tudo” to have some buble tea, while I, without much expectation or hope, took a stroll around the TV tower. Luckily for me, the day had a surprise in store: the Neptune fountain was fenced off, either because of demonstrations that had just taken place there, or due to repairs or construction at the Marx-Engels Forum.

The nude river allegories were hidden from the eyes of onlookers, and one could only glimpse them through the gaps between the fence sections. It struck me as amusing that socially accepted nudity was now, in a way, prohibited, so I took a couple of somewhat voyeuristic shots.

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But Neptune stood above worldly bustle, and it wasn’t possible to hide him from people’s gaze. The sky was clear, the sun was shining brightly, and I shot the sculpture for the cover photo in backlight.

There was nothing else to photograph, so I took a couple more shots for stock, picked up the family from the tea place (not the one with a samovar and bagels, but the modern bubble tea kind), and we headed home. ти.) и мы уехали домой.

PS: Written in Russian first, then translated to English with the help of ChatGPT.