Gotham City at Dawn

[dubaiphil]

The Burj Khalifa is visible in the distance, and other skyscrapers line the Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai at dawn this morning

[Mike Buckley]

Absolutely terrific, Phil. Your best architectural image in my mind.

[Donald]

That is a quite outstanding image. Superb photographic skill from start to finish.

[Sergio M.]

Phil, your photography is amazing.

Serge

[CLK]

Incredible, I didn't realize space travel was that advanced. It is hard to believe that this is real. The BW image makes it all the more other worldly and impressive.

[dubaiphil]

Thanks Mike, Donald and Serge. I've been kindly given some access and am just waiting for some fog now. We had a few days of fog last week and there should be some more along soon. That'll make for a cool image or two, from up on high.

[dubaiphil]

Thanks CLK.

This is a 3 shot blend using Exposure Fusion in Photomatix Pro, followed by some Color Efex and Silver Efex in photoshop. I'm trying to get some access lined up on a few other towers along this drag for the next round of foggy mornings

[dje]

Great image Phil. The "geometry" works so well and gives a great sense of depth. And the cloud really gives this image some punch. An excellent composition.

Dave

[Carl in Louisiana]

Wow! It's all be said Phil, still awesome image.

[MilT0s]

That's gorgeous Phill.

It's so nice to see fantastic images of different subjects from you.

[arith]

The Burj Khalifa is visible in the distance, and other skyscrapers line the Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai at dawn this morning

It looks like a filmset; I think it has gone too far into fantasy, but noting that everybody else thinks it is fabulous. Just a little imperfection is needed somewhere to make it perfect.

[Otavio]

Phil, nothing to add to everything that was said above. This is such a superb shot! Hard to believe it is a real world. It looks like an Asimov's idea adapted by J. Cameron in a Sci-Fi movie, if I can describe what I felt when I saw it. Fantastic!
Thanks for sharing!

[dubaiphil]

Thanks guys. I was unlucky that there was no fog, but when I drove to the location I noticed the light clouds, which help the image a lot. You very rarely get a sky like this here so I got lucky. If there are any more early mornings with light clouds and I'll try a 2 shot vertical panorama with my 24-70 and 10stop ND. The price of the filter option for the 14-24 is a little out of my league for the amount of times I'd use it!

[Coinneachmhor]

Wow!