To The Fallen.

Good afternoon Steemians :)

Another photograph from me this afternoon this time a mixture of a hand light-painting of the memorial, with a 40 minute star-trail stacked on top.

I shot this in the latter part of 2019 whilst out in Berlin as part of a ‘Light Up Berlin’ light-painting meet up.

This is photographed at The Soviet War Memorial and military cemetery in Berlin's Treptower Park.

It was built to the design of the Soviet architect Yakov Belopolsky to commemorate 7,000 of the 80,000 Red Army soldiers who fell in the Battle of Berlin in April–May 1945.

It opened four years after World War II on May 8, 1949. The Memorial served as the central war memorial of East Germany.

The memorial is patrolled regularly by police who once they knew were were just photographing left us in peace to shoot, however I was saddened to see that on this our second visit (in just a space of two days) someone had obviously graffitied on the memorial:(

I’ve hand lit the memorial with a Klarus torch in white, and finished up then lighting behind the figure with an orange gelled torch to contrast the clear dark blue sky.
Once the light-painting was complete, I’ve stopped the exposure for the light-painting and then set the camera shooting shorter 10 second exposures to capture the movement of the stars.

Both shots then combined in starstax.

Thanks for taking the time to take a look.

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