Photo Competition: Other Worlds - Submissions

Oh i forgot to mention u know those fire hell hole pix on #41 and 45. they are not small they are really huge crater. At first i thought they are small so i research more and found out it really huge and i notices small ppl try stand on edge of crater. geez... i cant imaging that hell hole still fire and not stop.. wow. i wonder how much amt of resource under that crater to keep fire. oh well...

 

Good day to all...
here are my top 3 bets ("entries") for this competition, all taken by award-winner Jim Krause
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Hope you'll like this guys...

 

I'd like to submit these first 3 below:
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From Igor Laptev.
I like the textures and the possibility that something like this could exist in Arkadia.
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From Wchild.
This is a Stal-Laval steam turbine manufactured in 1927. Love steampunk technology and would love to see some implementation of it within Arkadia. The dark mood and grittiness is also a plus.
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From me! In Germany


For Eye candy purposes:
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Also by me.

 

I'd like to exchange my first picture by Igor Laptev
with this picture by michaelanderson.
This beautiful and I think it matches the textures and colors shown in Arkadia pictures.

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Its a picture of the lost city of Machu Picchu in Puru.

 

I do not care if I win or not, I just wanted to share my imagined Arkadia with the others on the forum

 

Hm, thought I could edit the posts but I couldn't... Here is my second and third pictures






Pictures are randomly found on the internet, and I could not find the credit of who has taken them or where I had found them, they where lying on my hdd since a few years IIRC.. THe first picture as a link in the middle called shutterslock? I am not sure, I am slightly color blind and I seem to have a problem reading after the "Shutt" part...

 

Whoa some of them look better than 2 of my pixs. good job guys! Keep coming more pixs... before time end.

 

Aint that right some ppl from game say my pix from post #4 look fake. but it really real. wow.. oh well.. but u know some ppl did comment they know that jasper national park area. so i dont know why ppl think it fake. but that pix look cool for arkadia. so that all..

 

Not my pictures, as my pictures from the trip are either at my parents on the attic, or lost forever.

However, one of the most impressive sites I saw was Arches National park in Utah. It's a huge area with sandstone that got eroded over the millenium, causing parts of the oldest rock to collapse, with the upper layers remaining intact, and resembling arches.

Natural phenomena like the below would be entirely possible, either caused while the planet was initially forming, or later due to the elements.

Below is Skull Arch
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Credit: http://www.planetware.com/i/photo/arches-national-park-utah-ut488.jpg

Another amazing sight, though somewhat morbid, were the Paris catacombs. For those unfamiliar with the story, during the mediaval times, Paris buried its dead just outside the city. As the city continued growing, they found themselves literally living on top of the dead.

And as many were too poor to afford caskets, a lot of the dead would be buried without a casket, causing rotting human remains to contaminate the local water supply. In order to deal with this, bodies were exhumed, and the bones were stored in former mines.

The end result is endless piles of skulls and bones artistically stored.

I can imagine a planet like Arkadia having similar places, as colonists wanted to ensure those who fell during the travels, or while conquerring the planet from the local wildlife would be honored for eternity.

The picture below is of a room called the Crypt of the Sepulchral Lamp:
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Credit: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Catacombs-700px.jpg

My third entry doesn't need an introduction, I think. If this does not look alien, then I don't know...
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Bonus picture: Also from the Utah park comes Balancing Rock:
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Credit: http://twolanett.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/balancing-rock.jpg

 

Well, that did not quite work out as I planned, and I cannot seem to be able to edit *cries*<br>

 

Uhoo ... don hop i make ani sbelling erros then

 

The worst part is I did use that to check my post. Somehow between preview and hitting post, things changed.