Prague Golden Haze Rooftops Countdown Timer

This one is shot through the leaves of a tree, which is why the frame has these soft dark green shapes at the top and sides, and the effect is like looking at Prague through a gap in a hedge. In the middle of it all is a great green dome, oxidized copper, with a small lantern and a flag on top, sitting above a long red-roofed building and a dark spire. Beyond that the Vltava bends away into a haze so thick that the bridges across it look like they have been painted in watercolour and then left in the rain. The whole picture is gold, that late afternoon gold that Prague specialises in, the light coming across the city at such a low angle that everything goes soft and warm and slightly unreal. I did not plan the leaves. I was on a hill, the tree was in the way, and I shot through it because there was nowhere else to stand. Sometimes that is how you get the frame. The city did the rest, as it always does here, without being asked. I stayed until the gold went off the dome and the haze turned grey.