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English: The Shard , taken from the Sky Garden atop the " Walkie-Talkie ". A window is open, which allows a crane to lower a box that holds the window cleaners. The people walking at the bottom of this tower are approximately 170 × smaller than the building.
Photographer's notes: The image is stitched from 28 landscape-orientation frames in three columns. The viewpoint is the balcony of the "Sky Garden" at the top of the Walkie-Talkie . This is approximately halfway up the 306m Shard and 750m distant. A Sony A77II camera was used with Sony 55-300mm lens at 160mm. The exposure was f/5.6, 1/1000s and ISO 200. The camera has hand-held and, although the balcony is "outside", the view is behind glass that appears to have a slightly blue tint. These factors necessitated some downsizing of the final stitch to achieve a high quality image.
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Camera location 51° 30′ 39.09″ N, 0° 05′ 00.71″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap. View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap info
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The Shard in April 2015

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14 April 2015

51°30'39.08999"N, 0°5'0.70800"W

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