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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were • Alberta, Canada... or somewhere else...
May 17, 2009 • By Lorien

Imagination... I have it in abundance, sometime even too much (according to Joe). So there's no problem in this department. But I've found a long time ago that the most rewarding feeling comes from freedom to run with one's imagination and create something new, something that lives not in the real world. Today's post is that something.

Somewhere on highway 564 going east (Alberta, Canada), this next photo was taken. We stopped on the side of the highway, on top of a hill, and I took few photos of the fields. This is the first photo I picked up for this imagination game. It is SOOC (straight out of camera).

Bethlehem Lutheran Church (Dalum, Alberta Badlands, Canada) was another place on that same day trip we stopped to take photos. This next one is SOOC too.

Now, I brought both raw photos into Photomatix and asked the program to generate HDR photo from them. The next photo is what I got. Amazing fusion of 2 photos which are totally different, not something Photomatix was meant to do. The part I love best is how the roof disappeared, and the fields seem fused with the building.

At this point I started playing with the photo (brought the roof back), until I got what you see up there. It was pure fun to experiment with, and pure joy to see the outcome and like it *s*.

The title I've chosen for this fusion of photos is part of a quote from Carl Sagan : "Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere".

And just in case you're one of those who believe in pure photography, and hates post processing, I want to quote another famous person. George Bernard Shaw said: "You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?".

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