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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Ninety-Six: From the Persian Gulf to the Andaman Sea > View from the top, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2016
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30-NOV-2016

View from the top, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2016

I made this image by shooting straight down from the observatory tower at the top of the world’s highest building, the Burj Khalifa. The view from 124 stories above the city is dizzying, and this wide-angle photograph replicates that feeling. The cars at the intersecting streets below us look smaller than ants, and the huge buildings that flank the intersection seem trivial.

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Phil Douglis01-Jun-2017 23:34
"Asphalt noodles!" Wonderful. Only you could coin a phrase so delicious, Rose.
sunlightpix31-May-2017 23:52
A plethora of concrete boxes, steel and glass buildings, and miles of asphalt noodles of roads. A tribute to the triviality of man.
Phil Douglis04-Feb-2017 20:03
Thanks, Marisa. You are right -- this image does look unreal, and very much resembles a three dimensional mock up. It is only when we finally get down to the detail, and see those tiny cars on the streets, that we know this is truly real.
Marisa Taddia 04-Feb-2017 19:57
The enormous height of the building transforms its surroundings into a three-dimensional mock-up. Like those computerized images that make us imagine how a building will remain at the end of its construction. It's almost a feeling of unreality ...
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