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The emergence of high-tech cameras made pictures more vivid, more real and more interesting. From filmed cameras to digital ones, nowadays, a lot of people are crazy over DSLRs. I am really hopeful that I can own one too but having one is really costly.

I was once a fan of pictures especially when I joined the site Multiply six years ago. Taking pictures of almost everything around me including all the details makes me happy. Yeah, I think the saying "a picture paints a thousand words" is true. Looking back at all the pictures I took before takes my stress away. I get to reminisce the days when I was at my happiest. Aside from that, some random shots make me appreciate the beauty of the things that was once around me.

I took this picture last New Year while we're on a long drive from Subic, Zambales to Manaoag, Pangasinan in one of my favorite expressway - the SCTEX. We were lucky to be traveling in such a lovely sunny day.

Looking at the picture, Do you ever wonder if the road is really getting narrower as seen in the picture? Or are the light posts shorter as we get farther? When I was a kid, I was actually looking for possible answers to my question but these interesting things are explained through science. These are some of the examples of monocular cues. The road getting narrower is an example of perspective convergence. Parallel lines seem to be closer together as the distance increases. The light post is an example of relative height. The lamps have the same height but they seem to be shorter as the distance increases.

I'm really glad that cameras were invented. Imagine life without cameras. Well, we could live with it but we can't clearly recall all the beautiful things that we saw. The world is beautiful and I'm glad we have eyes and cameras to see it all the time.