Two Card Towers, One Secretly Thick Card

A conceptual tabletop miniature photograph about a quiet bit of cheating. Lighting: a soft, diffused studio source from the upper left, giving crisp paper edges, a gentle warm neutral tone and shallow miniature depth. Each grounded tower throws a soft semi-transparent black contact shadow into the alpha channel, darkest where it touches and fading outward. Cast: a pair of towers made from stiff playing cards, side by side at the center. Backs show a geometric navy-and-cream diamond pattern; faces are plain blank white. - Left tower: straight, tall and confident. Entering from the lower right, a short dealer's forearm secretly slides one thick reinforced blank card under the base. Its edge reads visibly denser and creamier than the thin cards around it. The arm is complete, fingertips through to a cleanly rounded elbow; that elbow floats well inside the frame, with wide empty transparency between it and the right edge, and the limb simply stops in mid-air, touching nothing, cropped by nothing. - Right tower: untouched. It stands on thin cards that bow and sag beneath the weight, so the upper courses lean out of plumb. Exactly five digits visible or anatomically accounted for. Canvas: 1:1 square, isolated on a fully transparent background. Use a real alpha channel with alpha = 0 around the subject; not white, not colored, no checkerboard pattern. The entire arrangement takes up only the middle eighty percent of the canvas, wrapped on every side by a wide, even border of empty transparency. No subject approaches any edge, every subject sits fully inside that border, and the transparency continues to all four edges.