The sky looked treacherous on this early August 11th morning. The photo editor at the Wall Street Journal suggested postponing the shoot till later in the week. But I liked the the prospect of dodging a thunderstorm to find a break of sun through dark clouds while the rain let up. The day before I had scouted the Upper West Side exterior and I liked the light around 6 o’clock especially when the clouds broke. We kept the shoot as scheduled; the clouds cooperated. The Journal wanted images that were blown out with light—not usually my style, but easy enough to adapt. I rented the new Nikon 14-24/2.8 lens from Alkit Camera. It lives up to all the rave reviews.
The story, “People Who Live in Glass Houses,” written by Sara Lin and published on August 29th, is about hi-rise owners in New York, Chicago, and LA, who have had to find solutions to minimize an over-abundance of light pouring into their living spaces. I covered the New York location at the apartment of Sara Antani, a grad student whose 17th-floor apartment is flooded with western light during afternoons. The story appeared with one photo in the online edition and three (one b/w, one color) in the print edition.
The front exterior of the Upper West Side hi-rise faces the sun over the Hudson River in Manhattan.
Sara Antani uses her laptop in her hi-rise apartment on the Upper West Side.
This year, Ms. Antani had motorized shades installed to control sunlight in her apartment.
Sara Antani looks out into the harbor as the sun descends on a summer afternoon in August.
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