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 of the spheres house small (photo) exhibitions, while the tubes contain stairs or escalators. the uppermost sphere is the only one we could actually look out of (nice panoramic view) — an elevator in the vertical shaft takes you up (after waiting in line for a while).
this vertorama has been stitched together from three landscape shots, one above the other. the stitching itself was done by regular panorama software after rotating the images into portrait, and then rotating the result back to “normal,” followed by some slight cropping and color adjustments. that’s why some of the tubes look slightly bent, which they are not. it might not look like it, but I was actually pretty close to the thing when taking the pictures — the topmost shot was almost straight up. the sphere at the top of the picture is pretty much right above me, as you can see from its reflection.
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