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flickr: Atomium (vertorama)
this is the Atomium — sort of a symbol of Brussels. except that Brussels itself is not very shiny, or modern, or pretty. but that’s a different story. the Atomium was built for the 1958 World Fair, which, judging by the items sold in souvenir shops, is the one remarkable event in Brussels’ history. some …
flickr: ECOC 2008 conference venue
greetings from the site of this year’s European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) at the Brussels Expo. they put the whole thing into one of the exhibition halls, and instead of the conference rooms that we are used to, they erected these tents inside the hall. that’s a first for me. the whole place has a …
flickr: burned scrap of newspaper
these are some remains of a newspaper that some of the guys used to get the barbeque going. I was just sitting around, playing with my camera when this little guy came flying in, so I took a shot. I thought it was about time to post something different from architecture or JSOVT(MB) pictures again, so …
flickr: Santa Maria del Fiore — the Florence Cathedral (vertorama)
we’re leaving Gubbio (for now) and make a day trip to Florence, in the beautifullest of weathers. it is quite a drive — I think it took about two and a half hours to get there. now by far the largest building in Florence is the Cathedral, so naturally our tour started there. the Florence …
flickr: Palazzo dei Consoli
yes, we’re still in Gubbio, and also still on that same tour through the city as in the previous pictures. this is the Palazzo dei Consoli which houses the Eugubine Tables, a set of seven bronze tablets from the 2nd or 1st century BC. really, really old stuff — more than four times older than …
flickr: JSOVIT(MB) — trattoria bench
I have no idea what the guy thought when I made Julia sit on that bench very briefly just for this shot, but it must have been something along the lines of “what are these crazy tourists up to again?” this is on a small square in front of the Church of San Domenico in Gubbio …
flickr: 21st century version of votive candles
these are electric versions of votive candles (it took me at least 10 minutes to figure out that name) in the church of San Domenico (see this picture). welcome to the Catholic church of the 21st century. no fire hazards in this church, thank you. you are supposed to make a donation into the donation box …
flickr: La Chiesa di San Domenico
there is really not too much to say about this picture, or the church. we were in there only a short while, because the rest of the group became very anxious about dinner by the time. I really like the light in this scene, coming from the very end of the hall, and giving that …
flickr: JSOVIT(MB) — stone bench in Gubbio
in this shot, Julia sits on a bench on the sidewalk around the park in the center of the Square of the 40 Martyrs. there were a couple of “normal” benches, too, but I thought this poor-man’s Stonehenge fitted the ancient town rather well. this was taken at the end of an afternoon walk through …