When I originally planned a trip to Berlin, I hadn’t thought of going to Potsdam, but after reading a few “day trips from Berlin” sites I added it to trip. I left a few hours early from Wiesbaden (5:00 AM with coffee and sandwiches in hand) and drove to Potsdam. All I had really read was a bit of the tourism website that mentioned Fredrick the Great and his palaces. When I arrived, I parked in an underground garage and started making my way to Sanssouci park. The town was cool and I walked into the park and stumbled upon a few small but very well adorned buildings.

35mm f/4.0, ISO 100, 1/1000 sec

Quite honestly, coming from Houston, TX (where anything more than 20 years old get bulldozed and rebuilt) just about everything I saw in this park was more photogenic than anything I’d ever seen. I got to Sanssouci before a lot of the tour buses so I got to get some pictures without a lot of people in them. This was a photo I took after going around a corner in the park.

35mm f/1.8, ISO 100, 1/1000 sec

Going around another corner I stumbled upon this shot. I did have to kneel for it but the small amount of dirt on the pants was worth it in my opinion.

35mm f/2.2, ISO 200, 1/400 sec

I think this is literally the third or fourth corner I turned around.

35mm f/1.8, ISO 100, 1/800 sec

The building I was walking around was really nice and quite large. Silly me I thought that was the palace I had read so much about……

35mm f/2.5, ISO 100, 1/1600 sec

I think this was corner number five, I was trying to keep people out of my photos but I thought it was important to show the sheer magnitude of the next building.

35mm f/7.1, ISO 100, 1/400 sec

After walking 500 meters forward, I found a bench to have some lunch on and this was my view. Not too bad….

35mm f/4.0, ISO 100, 1/800 sec

This is the “newer” palace in Sansoucci. Again I’ve included people in the photos to show the size of this place. And by people I mean those really small things standing at the bottom of the building.