A world suspended between reality and dream

interview with Dean Haystack | a Second Life Creator story #1

I was looking for images in Flickr to illustrate the posts of the interviews with the women and men who made Blake’s Sea their home.
Strong and engaging images, romantic and adventurous to convey the sense of reality that sailing in Second Life gives to its sailors.
When I found Dean’s images, I immediately had a good vibration. I like how he treats boats in his shots, they give the sense that I was looking for, a mix of reality and a dream involving and believable.
I have always loved photographs that challenge our perception of reality. I think for example of the Italian photographer Carlo Borlenghi who manages to find in his photographs an extraordinary balance that transports us into a world suspended between reality and dream, the same that I found in Dean Haystack’s shots.

Stex — Are you a photographer in real life too, or did you take this profession in second life?

Dean — I’m not a photographer in real life, I never took an interest to it other than take pictures of my pets or the odd interesting thing on occasion. Flower meadow, ruins…

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