Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: fp4

I took this on Lotte-Lenge-Bogenstrasse, and until I looked at the full size version of the scan, I couldn't remember why I had taken it. Up on the railway bridge is the answer, however, as this is one of my only photos (and maybe the only one) of a Berlin S-Bahn Zug, or train.

This small memorial is in the old Jewish ghetto in Berlin, on the location where Einstein lived until he had to flee the holocaust. The memorial is all that remains of his house, as the whole area was levelled by Allied bombing.

I almost forgot this yesterday, but this was where my Berlin tour started, as the tour guide wanted to go here first. As in most major mainland European cities, Berlin's mainline, commuter, and urban transit railways are integrated (and were even under Communism, when the Communists were given charge of the railways in both the East and the West of Berlin). In general, the transport network is well unified and functional, unlike in London, where it's been partly privatized and fragmented beyond belief, or in L.A., where it transport means either a 10 m.p.h. traffic jam, or an 80 m.p.h. demolition derby. Here you can see Berlin Zoologicher Garten Bahnhof, which has both mainline and subway trains, in the foreground in a bus stop, and of course there are quite a few bicycles as well.

This building is one of the stranger looking ones in Berlin, although the main reason is the "sail" on the roof rather than the rest of the building. There were rumours when I was in town that the sail was due to be taken down soon, but I don't know if this has come to pass.

I took this on Fasanenstrasse, as the street sign gives away, but I've completely forgotten the significance of this building. Does anybody know what it is?

The Delphi Theatre in the Charlottenburg neighborhood of Berlin was once a centre of Berlin's cabaret scene, particularly before World War II and particularly for the gay cabaret scene, according to the tour guide who was showing me around. It was one of the only buildings in the area to survive the war.

I took this at the National Railway Museum of Britain in York, and the locomotive is the very first of the famous LMS "Black Five" 5P5F Class 4-6-0s. Although some others had lower numbers, like 4767 downloaded right before this, the first Black Five does nevertheless carry the number 5000. Here it's displayed coupled to a period version of the Royal Train, as it would be configured to pull it.

This was more or less certainly not taken in 2000, as I have no record of any trips to York in 2000, so the copyright date is wrong. It's probably like that because I had this photo in with my 2000-2001 darkroom stuff. I do I recall taking it while I was on a research trip to York, after going there had become routine but before I actually started living there (2002-2004).

Although I could have taken this in 1999, when I was actually taking a photography course at the University of East Anglia, I'm fairly certain this was actually taken by me independently, and then developed in the darkrooms of the UEA Photo Society. I'm not sure, though. The year on the poster, of course, is referring to the 2001 UK election, as this poster is ridiculing Cherie Blair's obsession with mysticism and superstition. In the end, of course, Britain was doomed by a weak opposition and voter apathy to 4 more years of Blairite incompetence and corruption, which included the Iraq War, and yet another unsuccessful attempt to get rid of him, so one has to consider this poster as being unsuccessful, if indeed The Times dared to take a political position against Blair. It is a bit of an ethical grey area for many journalists, to be sure, when a serious newspaper like The Times does something this blatantly partisan. I've always thought that this photo was very interesting, though, in that it perfectly captured the mood of the times (no pun intended), and even included a reference to the British Rail Crisis, all in a major railway station! :-)

Here's another one.

Whoops!! I forgot these two. Enjoy. :-)

Here's another oddity that I finished the roll of Ilford with. Maybe it's not as dramatic as the Keighley & Worth Valley stuff, but it is still, I think, a valid use of an FP4 frame.

This one is kind of an oddity that I took at Keighley.

Either this was at the start of the previous run or halfway through the second one, I'm not sure.

Apparently a lot of people had line permits for the weekend, as it was a Steam Gala weekend. I never found out whether they were working for the railway, for a magazine, for themselves, or a combination of things, probably a combination.

I took this out of a train window and over 957's tender at Keighley. I just liked the shot.

Here's a shot of 957 running around at Keighley. In reality, both 957 and 85 ran around, but seperately.

Whenever or in whatever context that I took this (I don't remember) I like it. :-)