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A photograph of the reflection of a building in the glass panes of another building. The glass building has a curved surface made up of tall, straight, flat glass planes linked together at an angle to form the curve. This has the visual effect of 'breaking up' any large reflection that would take multiple panels; some panels have a brighter reflection, some are darker or almost cloudy, and due to the angle difference some pieces of the reflected building are jutting up uncomfortably against sky or different parts of the building they don't encounter in real life; it's as if they took the 8 story slate brown building with dark brown walls on the top two floors and cut out various close-but-not-contiguous columnar regions, then re-arranged them into a somewhat flat surface. Note that the distortion/cutout effect is _only_ vertical; any given column of glass panes has the same angle, so the reflection going up from any point is continuous. The building being reflected, in reality, is at an angle here (it's a building on a corner, so it has at least two faces exposed to the street), but it's hard to tell. Various sections of trees are visible in the panels as well; some sections are brighter and others are dark. They have the same cut at random effect as the building itself.

From a summer in Barcelona, the reflection of a building from a curved set of mirror-like windows.

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