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This article was first published by  dmcityview.com Few things are as fulfilling as going on vacation. Leaving your cares, deadlines, awkward relationships, and everything else at home and travelling to a exciting or relaxing place. As perfect as getting away from it all can be, the gatekeeper to these experiences can be unbelievably frustrating. No, this gauntlet of grief has nothing to do with asking for the time off from work or setting your affairs in order so your time away doesn’t end with a surprise catastrophe at home. The real pain before pleasure comes in the form of booking your travel. You’d think living post-phone vacation booking would be an era of sweet relief; no more calling airline after airline, hotel after hotel, rental car company after rental car company. Thankfully we’ve traded that torture but for something that is an entirely different painful experience. There is no silver bullet in the digital age for booking travel accommodations. The first savior came

This article was first published by  dmcityview.com The mechanically captured still image has been around for over 150 years. In the mid 1840s, the Daguerreotype process was invented whereby a specially conditioned silver-plated copper would lock in an image when exposed to light and shadow. Silver and copper being two rather expensive metals you shouldn’t be surprised to learn the process died out quickly when film based photography started to develop. Jump to today and the pervasive nature of cameras has pushed the artform into what is unquestionably it’s platinum age. To be clear the golden age is considered the midnight 20th century when film cameras were still considered a luxury for everyone to own, and were mostly owned or operated by professionals and artists. I consider today to be the platinum age because the technology and the know-how are nearly neck-and-neck as far as progress goes. More than any feature or function digital cameras provide, the ability to take virtua