Article snippet: Mike Tauber, a photographer, shoots luxurious homes for architects, real estate companies and developers. Most of his pictures show elegant interiors, but he’ll also turn his back on a sunken living room or paneled library and point his camera out the window. More than 200 of his multimillion-dollar panoramas are collected in “Vista Manhattan: Views From New York City’s Finest Residences,” recently out from Schiffer Publishing ($45). Mr. Tauber, who lives in Rye, N.Y., spoke about his King Kong perspectives, the magic of twilight and the best places to live and look. What will readers find in this book that they can’t see from an observation deck or very high hotel lobby? There aren’t a lot of public places in Central Park where you get to look over the reservoir the way you can from the Ardsley, at 320 Central Park West. There are a zillion places where you see the Empire State Building, but at 845 United Nations Plaza — Trump World Tower — there’s a great perspective where the Chrysler Building and Empire State Building look like they’re the same height because the Chrysler Building is closer. And you wouldn’t necessarily be in any of those places at that magical period 20 to 30 minutes after sunset, when it’s not absolutely dark, and lights are beginning to shine through the windows, and there’s that glow. The time of day plays a large role in how a view looks. After shooting an apartment during the day, sometimes we’ll return to shoot at twilight. With so ma... Link to the full article to read more