I made this image from a moving cruise ship as it sailed out of Rio’s harbor after dark. Rio is visually “branded” by Paul Landowski’s 80 year-old, 130 foot tall art deco statue of “Christ the Redeemer,” which stands atop the 2,300 foot high Corcovado mountain overlooking the city and harbor. Using my spot-metering mode and an ISO of 8000, I exposed for the illuminated statue, allowing most of the city, and the dark mountain to vanish. By such abstraction, I was able to make the statue seem to float ethereally in the sky overhead, allowing the imagination of the viewer to fill in the details.