I made this photograph from a glassed-in roof deck of one of Havana’s luxury hotels in the center of Old Havana. From this vantage point, I was able to look out over New Havana and make this image of a setting sun hovering over Havana Bay. I retain some detail in the shadows, revealing the mostly coarse architecture erected in Havana since the revolution. The single most graceful structure in this skyline is one of New Havana’s most celebrated buildings – the National Hotel of Cuba. Outlined against the hazy sky, it is the building topped by the two small towers at left center of this image. The “Nacional” was built in 1930, and is Cuba’s most historic hotel. Although it’s glory has faded, this now musty hotel once hosted the likes of Winston Churchill, Frank Sinatra, Earnest Hemingway, and the infamous mobster Meyer Lansky. Lansky controlled the National Hotel’s hugely successful casino until Castro shut it down in 1960. The hotel was memorably dramatized in the film “Godfather, Part II.”