I.M. Pei's Bank of China dominates a skyline that has few rivals in China. Only Shanghai's new Pudong district is comparable. I shot this film on a gray morning from the window of a moving bus. It is virtually a black and white image, but for the tinge of color reflected back to us in the Bank of China's windows. (The building's sharp angles point at other banks, which is said to create bad "feng shui.") Using a 24mm wideangle converter lens and the flip-up rotating viewing screen on my digital camera, I was able place the camera against the bottom of the window and point it almost straight upwards, which accounts for the powerful distortion which gives this image its thrust and power, echoing the nature of the skyline itself.