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Solaris

I was impressed by the perfect alignment of the Sun and the strong reflection along the shinning surface of the ramp pavement, creating unexpectedly long shadows. it was closing time though, a vigilant already pushing me out, so i had just two or three tries and no way of experiencing with different technical choices. In the end I really liked the technical imperfections.

 

Solaris reminds me of the Portuguese word for Sun: Sol. Somehow I thought this image could also illustrate the idea behind Stanislaw Lem's book and the two movies it originated, the large space creating a sense of loneliness, the shadow being the anguish and guilty concerns expressed in an human form, the self-aware planet studying our responses to its psychological experiments.

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Uploaded on July 28, 2010
Taken on July 19, 2010