Taipei 101 - Outside Up

This is Taipei 101 - the tallest building in the world from March 2004, when it was completed, until March 2009, when it was surpassed by the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.  And one of the ugliest, in my opinion, jutting up from the jumble of skyscrapers below like a jagged quadrangular saw blade.  Never liked it.

But from a photographic point of view it offers interesting possibilities.  The interior observation decks occupy the 88th and 89th floors, from which some good photos can be captured on a good-weather day.  The obviously-green glass that you're shooting through requires a bit of color correction in post-capture, but that's easily fixed.  The only consistent problem I ran into was the distortion caused by the glass, shooting at such oblique angles.  In many of the shots of subjects below, one side of the photo would be in pretty good focus while another portion of the frame would be noticeably fuzzy or out of focus.  Not so easily fixed.  Nevertheless, I got some passable shots in with the Big Cahoona.

Below is a similar shot, taken just a few yards over: