Conceptual tabletop miniature photograph isolated on a fully transparent background, real alpha channel with alpha = 0 around the subject, not white, not colored, no checkerboard pattern, framed as a 1:1 square composition. The whole arrangement occupies only the middle eighty percent of the canvas, surrounded on every side by a wide, even border of empty transparency; no subject approaches any edge.
Two card towers built from stiff playing cards stand side by side at the center, each card printed with a geometric navy-and-cream diamond pattern on its back and a plain blank white face. The left tower rises straight and confident because a short dealer's forearm enters from the lower right and secretly slides one thick reinforced blank card, its edge visibly denser and creamier than the thin cards, beneath the tower's base. The arm is complete from fingertips to a cleanly rounded elbow, and the elbow floats well inside the frame with wide empty transparency between it and the right edge; the limb ends mid-air, touching nothing, cropped by nothing. The right tower, untouched, rests on thin cards bowed and sagging under its weight, its upper courses tilting out of plumb.
Soft diffused studio light falls from the upper left, leaving crisp paper edges, a gentle warm neutral tone, and shallow miniature depth. Exactly five digits visible or anatomically accounted for. Each grounded tower keeps a soft semi-transparent black contact shadow in the alpha channel, darkest at contact, fading outward. Every subject sits fully inside the wide transparent border, and the transparency continues to all four edges.
