The photographs not taken. [First day of spring edition.]

+ Golden mid-afternoon sunlight streaming through tall, floor-to-ceiling windows, shining through green water glasses, spilling onto a dark wood table.

+The network of veins within a man's cocoa-colored hands. They're strong and elegant, like a piano player's. One finger is adorned with a silver ring with an orange stone in the middle, one wrist is adorned with a thin bronze cuff.

+Another man's upturned wrist, a deep shade of brown, reveals a tattoo that declares "I Am" in bold, black letters. On his forearm, a tattoo of a simple, black crescent moon and star, the symbol of Islam.

+A banged-up, scratched Minolta SX-7 camera resting atop an artfully worn, leather messenger bag the color of cognac.