Lighting Observation #7
Date/Time/Location: 4/1/22, Hempstead Turnpike, 9:30pm
Objective Description: As I walked back to my dorm in the cold, a flickering streetlamp shone a warm, perfect circle on the sidewalk below.
Subjective Description: The dark sky made for a shadowy, mostly unseen walk home, eerie and frightening. Very few lights shone in the darkness, except for one by the crosswalk to the Netherlands across the Turnpike. Its beam shone straight down, casting a perfectly circular pool of light on the sidewalk below, which I promptly used as a spotlight (just for kicks). Though I was frightened walking home alone, the streetlight guided me out of the darkness, metaphorically and literally.