Between the Buildings — Sydney, Australia

Night photograph of the Sydney Opera House and the lit CBD skyline seen through a narrow gap between two dark foreground buildings, framed by silhouetted walls and a palm. — Between the Buildings
Sydney, Australia · June 2018
1D X Mark II, 70 millimetres, f 2.8, 1/4 of a second, ISO 2500

Everyone shoots it from the water. This is from a car park.

There is no shortage of clean views of the Opera House and they all look the same. This one is from a gap between two buildings, using the dark walls to close the frame down to a slot with the shells and the towers sitting in it. The foreground is essentially black, which is fine — it is doing structural work, not decorative.

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