Sunday, February 23rd at 3:39pm, Home Depot parking lot in Hempstead.
Considering this was outside, the lighting was “natural”. The whole sky was covered by clouds which allowed the sun to disperse its brightness over a large area in a white haze. If you were looking at eye level, you would have been able to see things bright and clear but with a slight gray tinge over everything.
It was unsurprising that leaving Home Depot I would immediately be greeted by a natural light that acted as the store’s counterpart. A sheet of clouds consumed the sky, creating an uncomfortable grey tinge that contaminated everything that lived in its wake. Despite covering the one thing that granted vision to the Home Depot customers, the sun still managed to be unassuming, asking nothing in its translucent white haze. Even in its attempt to conceal what would have been the bittersweet presence of a late Sunday afternoon, the sun persisted to illuminate what light it had left, leaving shoppers to bask in the day’s dusty wistfulness.