Until recently, Houston’s meandering Buffalo Bayou river had been a camera-ready place—if you were using a long-range lens.

While growing up in Mumbai, India, during the 1970s and ’80s, Abhay Wadhwa had little idea that one day he would helm his own architectural lighting design firm based in New York City, he says.

Poised on the southern tip of Manhattan, just blocks from the World Trade Center redevelopment site, Battery Park is one of New York City’s oldest open public spaces along the Hudson River.

Brooklyn’s Julian Lwin takes a full-spectrum approach to lighting Photography courtesy While the Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood of Williamsburg is now the picture of urban cool, walking toward Marta and Julian Lwin’s loft offers a glimpse of the area’s seedier, not-so-distant past.