Lighting Observation #12

Saturday, April 26th 2025 at 5:58PM–looking directly at Jason’s Delicatessen on the corner of Polk Avenue and Peninsula Boulevard in Hempstead.
This lighting moment came after a period of intense rain, resulting in sopping wet streets. Even after the rain had stopped, the skies were still covered in dark grey clouds. The sun was nearing the end of its cycle for the day and somehow managed to peek out through the clouds, which created strange Magritte-esque lighting so that the buildings facing West were radiant yellow amidst a background of overcast clouds.
The air held onto a strange, surrealist feeling as there was no harmony found between its two siblings, sun and sky. The Earth had been rampaging through intermittent downpours, and at this particular moment found itself quiet and resting in drenched content. The sky held onto residual resentment, the clouds stagnant in a dark grey blanket, at first stifling the soft amber light that so desperately wanted to poke through. Eventually, the Western gloom had been clawed through, the sun emitting a halo of gold which the houses and trees baked under. A whisper of grief could still be felt at their backs, as their glistening fronts remained in the frame of desolate clouds.

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