Auckland Landmark Icon Photo

Photographer’s Note

Sky Tower New Zealand

The Sky Tower, built in 1997, is an Auckland landmark icon. The Sky Tower, 328 m high, is an observation and telecommunications tower. Upper levels accommodate communications equipment, three circular public observation levels - Sky Deck, Main Observation level, and the Sky Lounge, a revolving restaurant, from each of which you can get a 360-degree view of Auckland.

The Sky Tower is the sixth tallest tower in the world - eight metres higher than the Eiffel Tower. At 328 metres tall Sky Tower stands above any other tower in the Southern Hemisphere and is the 12th tallest tower in the world (taller than the Eiffel Tower in Paris or Sydney's AMP Tower).
It took two years and nine months to build Sky Tower.

Three glass-fronted elevators can take 225 people to the observation levels every 15 minutes. The elevators travel at 18km per hour and the ride takes only 40 seconds.

There are 1,267 steps from the base of Sky Tower to Sky Deck. It would take someone 29 minutes to reach Sky Deck walking at 4km (2.5 mph)

On a clear day you can see approximately 82 kilometres (51 miles) from Sky Tower. That's as far north as Leigh Peninsula, as far east as Great Barrier Island, as far west as the Waitakere Ranges, and as far south as the Bombay Hills.

www.skytower.co.nz

fcuk81, saintclaude, elihesamian, fabEarth, supereira, nwoehnl has marked this note useful

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saintclaude (1398) 2005-05-01 8:59

Under no pretext I want to go one day up there! No, no, and no!!!
Very beautiful sight Janice, beautiful composition, and very beautiful note too.
Thank you!
Claude

elihesamian (26091) 2005-05-01 13:30

Great POV,with managed the view graphicaly,I like it,very informative and thanks for note,Janice!
I like the blue tonalities here,nice colors and contrast,also working with diagonal moves and vertical twers is a nice managing for this great composition,very well captured and well composed,Janice,Thanks for sharing.

Regards
M

fabEarth (253) 2005-05-02 0:37

Nice composition. Line are great!

supereira (9576) 2005-05-03 7:11

Good prespective and DOF.I like the contrast between the buildings and the sky.Good light and sharpness.Good colors and contrasts.Good job!

nwoehnl (120) 2005-05-04 15:56

Hi Janice. Very nice framing you found to present the Sky Tower - the diagonals provided by the surrounding architecture do a lot for your composition, and I think they help to convey the height of the structure much better than a plain straight shot would be able to do. The cloudy sky also works out fine and adds more character than a plain blue one would do. Good photo.

fcuk81 (141) 2005-05-26 15:23

Great compostion. Hope you like my workshop, I think the image works better in B+W.

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Karey (24) 2006-01-01 5:12

Wow. Clever and simple composition of this iconic and well photographed NZ tower. This pic could be on any NZ book cover! Clever use of two parallel lines to 'frame' the tower, repeating circles and squares, and the blue cast, makes this a successful picture in my opinion.