As a photographer, have you ever wished you could bend the laws of physics to your will to get this perfect, indeed this impossible shot? Well, there is a way. All the tools are there to achieve the impossible, and the best thing is: they are free.

A while ago, a little after I first began uploading photos on DT, I ran into the work of amazing digital artists who used state-of-the-art software to achieve photorealistic computer renderings. This may initially sound like a waste of time - why spend hours, sometimes days, creating images nobody could distinguish from a photograph.

But if you ever wished you could take a picture of the earth from space...

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