In honor of St. Patrick's Day, a pool player at The Swiss wore a green hat.

But it was the beautiful lighting that forced the camera to my eye.

In the back rooms at The Swiss there are large window up high, so when shooting toward the windows with a telephoto, the backlighting puts a thin bright rim on the people.

It also makes for lots of flare. It's one of the rare times when I wish I had a telephoto that wasn't also a zoom lens because with fewer lens elements, it would have a little less flare.

Having lots of flare means more work in PhotoShop to clean it up and build back the contrast that was robbed by that type of flare.

An assistant with a card to shade my lens would also help. That's one of the differences between a big commercial "shoot" and a roving news photographer.