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As we gather in the City of Light, consider that everything visible is light. We, color and imaging scientists and practitioners, are masters of light, reproducing light through imaging, creating and utilizing light in our real environment, and augmenting our illuminated reality with advanced displays and optics. Imaging, a core topic of CIC, is about the reproduction of light, which is foremost a question of tone and color reproduction, and we develop and master technologies from reflective pigments to emissive displays. Reality itself is rendered and sensed with light, and as we choose to light our environment with LED illumination, color rendition is a central question for visual quality. Reality and imaging converge in augmented reality – AR – which can insert interactive imagery into our illuminated world. In AR, this mix of real and augmented reveals important questions about adaptation and color perception. Mastering light in real and augmented reality incorporates the newest, evolving technologies, while we rely on the foundations of our predecessors: both the intuitive artists whose paintings we still admire, and the rational scientists whose findings we still trust.