I am always looking for “Hopper Light” – the play of morning light and shadow upon old buildings, street scenes filled with the color and geometry that enrich so many of the wonderful oil paintings created by Edward Hopper. I found it here on a Manhattan side street. I stand across the street from this scene, and use a 28mm lens, which allows me to get close enough for detail, yet still retain the scope and scale of the street scene itself. I anchor the scene around a single man who stands alone under an orange awning of his place of work, waiting for admittance. The silent, nostalgic mood that I try to express here is also incongruous – just out of camera range, thousands of people are scurrying to work along Third Avenue. But this man stands here alone, in “Hopper Light.” Only the contemporary design of the awning places him in the 21st century. Everything else – the rhythmic window placement, the green and red colors, the flow of shadows upon the street, could look just as it might have appeared to Edward Hopper himself when he painted “Early Sunday Morning” in 1930 ( http://www.alledwardhopper.com/58/early-sunday-morning-by-edward-hopper )