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            January 3, 2008 Charlotte Observer

DEVELOPMENT

A glimpse of Charlotte, for now

Skyline Photo winner captures city before a few more towers go up

DOUG SMITH

                                                                               COURTESY OF BUREN FOSTER

The winning image of the 2008 Chamber Skyline Photo contest was photographed by Buren Foster.

Take a good look at this photo of the Charlotte skyline.

With so much construction under way -- one developer says he counted 14 cranes -- the view will change dramatically over the next few years.

This image was captured by Buren Foster, the Charlotte Chamber's 2008 Skyline Photo Contest winner.  It will be obsolete, of course, by 2009,

when three more condo high-rises and two office towers are scheduled to be completed.  Center citywide, eight condo high-rises, including two

that will reach 50 stories, are under way and eight are proposed or in some stage of consideration.  More than a half-dozen uptown office buildings,

totaling in excess of 2.7 million square feet, also are under way.  The chamber, which started the photo contest in 1992 as uptown development

was taking off, updates its publications annually with the winning image.  This is the first time Foster, an FBI photographer who also owns

Buren Foster Photography, has competed for the $500 cash prize. It wasn't planned. "I stopped by the chamber to see if they wanted to buy another

one of my pictures," Foster said. "They didn't, but they suggested I enter the skyline contest."  He shot the winning photo at sunrise with a digital camera

looking west from near Charlotte-Mecklenburg police headquarters off East Trade Street.  Foster said he was aiming for a nontraditional angle at a

time of day when lighting is ideal and haze usually isn't an issue.  The chamber judges said they chose the photo from among 50 submissions because

it featured Charlotte Bobcats Arena and other buildings that weren't as visible in past contest winners.  The prize money is spent already invested,

Foster said, in equipment for his business.  The chamber will use the image for $10 posters and $35 signed, limited-edition prints, available at Info!Charlotte

in its building at 330 S. Tryon St.  Foster, a 19-year FBI employee, is a Stafford, Va., native who has lived here since 1999.  At the FBI his work includes

crime scene photography. At his studio (http://www.burenfosterphotography.com/) Foster's services range from sports action to wedding photography.