I made this image from the deck of our cruise ship, just before we set sail on a 20 day journey from the Persian Gulf to the Andaman Sea. The haze of automotive pollution hangs over the city, abstracting the skyline and making it more symbolic than real. There are two striking incongruities in this image. One structure dominates the skyline. Incredibly and incongruously, it stands nearly twice as high as the normal skyscrapers that flank it. It is the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world. The Burj and its neighbors are six miles away from me, allowing me to compare and contrast them to the miles of low structures that fill the foreground.