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Ok, let's go surreal

Well, the concept is that only feminine grace can save us from sinking and stay abandoned forever. but i'd like to know what this image actually suggests to you all.

And now, let's go tech

The building is an abandoned plant in Turin. I think that, decades ago, it was involved in activities like repairing ship, airplane and train engines. In the near future it will be restructured (as the whole area around) to host a multimedia library, or something like that. The building image is actually a panorama pic, made of 16 pictures (4x4): the goal here was to get a very detailed super-resolution image (the original file is about 28 megapixels), rather than a regular panorama pic. I scaled it down to about 1/2 its size (hence 1/4 its resolution) to work with it without putting my old pc to its knees . Then i further scaled down the final image to display it more easily on DA. I uploaded to my scraps a portion of the 7megapixel image i worked on [link] and a portion of the original 28megapixel image [link]

The five dolphins (yes, there are five in the pic) come from shots i took at the Aquarium of Genova. One more pic from that series was used to texturize the image and get bluish shadowed colours.
I also used, for the same purpose, two or three more pics (sky, metallic surfaces, air sparkling in water) I took time ago.
The words come from a couple of kitchen recipes of my grandmother's.

But not all the images which take part to this pic come from my archive: so, last, but absolutely not least, the credits. Thanks to:

for the girl [link]

for the man sitting on the chair [link]

kurtisblow (from SXC ) for the wrecked ship [link]

Full view recommended; please comment.

Update - April 27, 2006

has uploaded a poetry piece called Still deliverance , inspired to this pic. I am pleased and proud, and just can't find the words to thank her. Please take the time to read it, I found that it expresses my thoughts even better than my pic does and I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

Description
Ok, let's go surreal

Well, the concept is that only feminine grace can save us from sinking and stay abandoned forever. but i'd like to know what this image actually suggests to you all.

And now, let's go tech

The building is an abandoned plant in Turin. I think that, decades ago, it was involved in activities like repairing ship, airplane and train engines. In the near future it will be restructured (as the whole area around) to host a multimedia library, or something like that. The building image is actually a panorama pic, made of 16 pictures (4x4): the goal here was to get a very detailed super-resolution image (the original file is about 28 megapixels), rather than a regular panorama pic. I scaled it down to about 1/2 its size (hence 1/4 its resolution) to work with it without putting my old pc to its knees . Then i further scaled down the final image to display it more easily on DA. I uploaded to my scraps a portion of the 7megapixel image i worked on [link] and a portion of the original 28megapixel image [link]

The five dolphins (yes, there are five in the pic) come from shots i took at the Aquarium of Genova. One more pic from that series was used to texturize the image and get bluish shadowed colours.
I also used, for the same purpose, two or three more pics (sky, metallic surfaces, air sparkling in water) I took time ago.
The words come from a couple of kitchen recipes of my grandmother's.

But not all the images which take part to this pic come from my archive: so, last, but absolutely not least, the credits. Thanks to:

for the girl [link]

for the man sitting on the chair [link]

kurtisblow (from SXC ) for the wrecked ship [link]

Full view recommended; please comment.

Update - April 27, 2006

has uploaded a poetry piece called Still deliverance , inspired to this pic. I am pleased and proud, and just can't find the words to thank her. Please take the time to read it, I found that it expresses my thoughts even better than my pic does and I'm sure you'll enjoy it.