Sig Nordal

Shot during the blue hour (15min after sunset to be exact), looking southwest towards the Burj Khalifa (worlds highest tower), the Dusit Thani hotel can be seen on the extreme left. The Architecture of this hotel symbolises the “Wai”, a typical Thai greeting where both hands are placed on each other in a prayer like fashion.

I was particularly attracted to the complementary colours, blue and yellow and fascinated by the extreme dense traffic going towards Dubai, with an almost empty Sheik Zayed road going the other way. There is something to be said about the contrast of the mad rush downstairs and the calm on one of the rooftops; a place where I could easily have stayed much longer!

The large spiderweb of roads in the foreground is called “Defense roundabout”; a crossing that used to consist of a small roundabout, but that has changed drastically over the last 10 years.

Image details:
Fujifilm X-T1 with the Fujinon XF10-24 f4 lens
Main image: ISO 200, f11, 10.5mm (16mm full frame equivalent), 28sec
RAW development in Lightroom CC
Photoshop CC to blend in a darker image (same settings but 3sec only), and obtain more detail in some of the light-panels
Nik Software for a final optimisation of contrast

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