Real Time View

  Wherever travel takes Margo and me, I often take photos at that location. A reminder of where we have been and a way to start conversations with family and friends. With today’s smartphones, it seems as though we are provided with endless device memory so much so that we can keep on snapping photos indefinitely. When it comes time to review the photos and to perform minor edits – I still cannot seem to capture a straight horizon – some photos don’t make the cut and are quickly deleted. The longstanding problem of trying to keep a foreground in focus while wrestling with the impact from different lighting strengths more often than not leads to barely recognizable photos and are usually the first to be deleted. This was the case when visiting business colleagues and clients but one or two photos that fell into this category had me thinking to the point where I opted to keep the questionable images captured by the smartphone. Maybe software can improve the quality? On the other hand, t