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Dubai skyscrapers poke through a carpet of fog at
night in dramatic images taken from 800ft up in the air.
The world tallest building - the 2,700ft-high Burj Khalifa - can be seen
bursting through the dense fog banks which descend on the city in March
year year.
In other pictures, the lights from Dubai's shops and apartments
illuminate the fog from below at sunset.
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Ian Powell, from Brighton, has been documenting the growth of the city
for eight years. The 36-year-old developer uses site visits to some of
Dubai's tallest buildings to indulge his passion for photographing the
skyline.
He said: 'Watching the fog from this high is beyond reality. The Dubai
skyline is such a wonder - I watched 80 per cent of the buildings being
built over my eight years here.
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'I wake up most mornings around 4am to look for the signs and smells of
fog - you can smell and feel it in the air.
'That morning I wasn't expecting anything but within 15 minutes I was
surrounded by it.
'We get fog twice a year when the seasons changes. The moisture in the
morning cools and the fog start to appear.
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'It reminds me of the cloud planet Coruscant with its Cloud City in Star
Wars.
'Every time I see the fog it acts and dissolves differently, it's never
the same experience.'
Fog gathers in Dubai because of a rise in temperature from an average of
25 to 28 degrees Centigrade in March.
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At ground level visibility can drop to just 30ft, sometimes causing
chaos on the busy roads.
Ian said: 'Having working as a developer for the last six years, many
images where captured due to site visits.
'I have also supplied some of the towers I have worked on with images,
so in turn they give me access to their buildings.'
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