This is a black and white cityscape photo of the rising sun's sunbeams shining through the high-rise waterfront overlooking Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong (2018).
The lower quarter of the photo is filled with dark and choppy water with small wavelets of about one metre breaking the water's surface. To the left of centre are two ferries, one SeaCat fast ferry viewed nearly in profile and underway from left to right. The other, a standard (slow) ferry, a little more distant and underway from right to left and nearing the left margin. Above the waterline and forming an urban horizon, is a city waterfront filled nearly entirely with high-rise apartment and office blocks, all viewed in silhouette with little fine detail to be seen. The sky above is an early morning tropical haze, with a visibility of just a few km. In the upper right corner is a newly risen sun, just above the skyscrapers. It's brilliant light causing multiple shadows where the high-rise towers block the sunlight. Between these shadows are numerous sunbeams shining through the castellated cityscape behind and onto the water below.
The location: Victoria Harbour and the cityscape is the waterfront of Central District on Hong Kong island.
