2008: One Earth Award - Highly Commended
Piers Calvert (United Kingdom)
City descent
'I had been taking pictures since my plane started to cross the English Channel. Looking down as we circled London was like watching a scene from a movie. The vision of a city drowned in cool blue clouds, under a deep pink sky, was like getting a glimpse of a future world, lost to global warming and rising sea-levels.' A steel pyramid caps London's One Canary Wharf, the tallest building in the UK. It dominates the skyline in the capital's financial district, at times poking through the dawn fog. Fog is stratus cloud that touches the ground, dropping visibility for commuters in particularly bad mornings to less than one kilometre.
Canon EOS 5D + 24-105mm f4 lens; 1/100 sec at f4; ISO 1600.
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