“Vikram was thirty-four and he had been a photographer for twelve years and the twelve years had taught him two things about photography and one thing about life. About photography: first, that the best photographs were taken in the five minutes after you put the camera down and picked it back up, because the putting-down was the surrender and the picking-back-up was the intention, and the photograph taken with intention after surrender was always sharper than the photograph taken with effort alone. Second, that light was not illumination but emotion — morning light was hope, noon light was truth, evening light was nostalgia, and the photographer's job was not to capture light but to identify which emotion the light was expressing and then frame it.”