thank you for your suggestions. i am familiar with jerry uelsmann's work but not sandy skogland, i will check out her (his?) work. i have seen wim wenders films and really like them. i am really impressed with his work .. he seems to be a rare breed of film maker whose every frame is like a still photograph or a painting. i probably should have worded my question a little differently. while i am well aware of the surrealists and the hitchcock / dali dream sequences in film, i guess i was thinking more of a dreamlike or etheral quality that photographic abstractions can have whether they were taken with some sort of funky lens, or printed in a way that makes you look at them and wonder what is going on. thanks again & have a nice new year - john