The grand hotels and stately buildings in Madrid have to be seen to be believed, and they are often best seen from above the ground floor. This image of the decorative balconies along Madrid’s Gran Via is a composite of eight images—to manage the extremes of the dynamic range—and was made on the fourth floor. Actually, the fifth floor by US designation (here in Europe what we’d call the first floor is floor zero, and one-off discrepancy between the continents).