I had the great pleasure to have this shot (as well as another one from Singapore, see below) selected by N-Photo magazine to be featured in their May issue (already out).

I also want to thank you all my flickr friends for your constant visits and support, my photostream has recently reached 7,000,000 views .

This is the #10 of my "Veins Of Dubai' series, hopefully I can add some more if I can still get access to cool high places :)

This was shot from the 79th floor, my camera was literally hanging in the void. You really gotta trust your tripod in those moments.

Please check the whole series so far:
View From The Top
The Veins Of Dubai #1
The Veins Of Dubai #2
The Veins Of Dubai #3
The Veins Of Dubai #4
The Veins Of Dubai #5
The Veins Of Dubai #6
The Veins Of Dubai #7
The Veins Of Dubai #8
The Veins Of Dubai #9

Dubai Set | Digital Blending Set | Night Photography Set

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I had the great privilege of having one of my Burj Dubai shot published in the October issue of GEO magazine, German edition. Unfortunately, I have no idea what this article is all about! ;-) May be one of my German flickr friends could tell me! ;-)

And again, great thanks to all my flickr friends for their continuous support!

Update: Thanks to Marianne for the translation!

Burj Dubai - the world's tallest house

Burj Dubai stretches more than 800 meters into the sky over Dubai. Interview with chief engineer Andy Davids who has calculated the static of the tower and who is already planning new records.

When asked if it's possible to build taller buildings, Andy Davids replies that he's already working on the planning for the Nakheel Tower in Dubai which will be more than one km tall.

He doesn't think that's the limit though. He and his team are working on a building which is three times the height of the Burj Dubai. A 120 years ago, the newly Eiffel Tower was almost twice the height of any building built up till then.

With buildings almost two and a half km tall what gives you the largest headache? You'll need an oxygen supply starting at about 4000 meters. The internal air circulation is one of the problems. Also the external effects on the structure. The climate affects the wind so that has to be taken into consideration.

How do you obtain the necessary data? We use the most exact climate models which we get from NASA among others. Furthermore, we use the so called SODAR approach to calculate the wind directions and speeds. The Burj Dubai swings by only about a meter at the top. With taller buildings we have to take different swing widths into consideration. This is a challenge as we have no experience in this or anything to compare to.

Do you see any limits? The limits are not technical but monetary. (He goes on to say that a builder would want to see a return on investment within 10 years and therefore he figures he can build a building about twice the height of Burj Dubai - maybe even three times the height within those 10 years.

When asked how many people work on the design of such a building, he replies that he employs 50 people from all over the world. The team is working on the construction and design of 10 buildings with 100 or more floors contracted by Dubai, Katar, Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia.

The models for this are still made from wood. When the contractor comes with a new idea the model can be changed in a few minutes.

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I had the privilege with 49 other photographers of being selected for the launch of a new iPhone/iPod Touch application soon to be available for free on iTunes and Apple Store.

iFolio will provide a pleasant and smooth user interface to browse through the portfolios of various photographic artists.

While viewing the portfolios of an artist, the user will have a "Contact" button which will allow it to access information about the artist (his photo, his email, his website, a text description, a page news,...

Special thanks to the iFolio creators Hervé Péroteau & Thomas Courant.

As a side note, I won't be able to enjoy this phone & application myself...Those who know for which company I work will understand! ;-)

Sincere apologies to Giueseppe for stealing his idea of presentation for iFolio!

And lastly sorry for not visiting your streams lately, I unfortunately don't have much time for flickr these days.

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First of all, I want to say a big thanks to all of you my dear friends as I have reached today 400,000 Views on my stream (in 2 years and 3 months of flickering). Thanks for those who regularly visit my stream and always leave encouraging comments. Sometimes I am a bit overwhelmed with the number comments I receive and apologize in advance to those I did not have the chance to visit their streams yet.

This shot was taken from Telegraph Island where I did my previous shot. This is the only place during my boat trip where I could get an interesting foreground. Here the transparency of the water makes the foreground! I have a few other shots taken from the boat but they are not very interesting. If only the water was still, then I would get some nice reflections, but this was not the case.

Digital Blending, 4 exposures: one for the foreground with the water transparency, one for the middle part of the sea because it was over exposed, one for the boat and the mountains, and finally one for the sky to complete the Vertorama.

Oman Set | Digital Blending Set | Earth-Water-Sky Set | Vertoramas Set

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Well, I guess it's an early great Christmas present for me! This is my second publication in a specialized photo magazine, PCPhoto (my first publication was in the Ukrainian edition of Digital Photographer in April this year).

I owe it to you my friends, because without your visits, comments and faves, I would not probably get much exposure on Flickr, therefore would not be noticed by photo magazine publishers.

Wish you a great Sunday!

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