‘I was mesmerised by how the fog turned the tower into a monolith’: Derek Zhao’s best phone picture

Zhao was out jogging around Treasure Island, near San Francisco, when he spotted a lonely tower stabbing through the clouds Every morning, Derek Zhao jogs the perimeter of Treasure Island, his home, situated an eight-minute ferry ride from San Francisco.

“It’s an endless source of frustration for me that I can’t bring my cameras with me,” he says. “When the island gifts me its beautiful scenes, I should be grateful that phones have pretty decent cameras, too. ” Zhao works as a machine-learning engineer at Disney California. He relocated from Texas last year to take up…