If you visit any large city and photograph tall buildings, you quickly understand the problem of perspective. Unless you are about half a mile away (just try that in New York) you have to shoot up and use a wide angle lens to fit it all in. The inevitable result is a building that looks like it's falling backwards. And if you're shooting 2 buildings side by side, it looks like they are going to hug.

For most of my career in photography and commercial printing, the game has always been to come close to the magic of the human eye.

If you're a photographer in training who likes to travel light, how about a nice deck of playing cards that doubles as a cheat sheet for your picture taking. That's exactly what showed up on a Kickstarter funding appeal a couple days ago and made its target of $1122 in 30 minutes.

Every now and then I have to remind myself that photography is nothing more than painting with light. The scene we face is a rich palette of colors from brilliant to drab that we use to excite photo-sensitive camera pixels in one way or another and come up with some interpretation of the scene itself.

This is a little different riff than how Live Photos offers motion eye-candy in the form of loops, bounces and animated GIF's. This is about the same pre-exposure images the can get the smile, the jumping cat, or the bolt of lightning that you weren't quite fast enough to catch.