Speaking of fantasy to reality and back in photography, you might want to take a look at this collection of what is (apparently) now being called photo manipulation, a field indigenous to digital photography, but whose ancestry harkens back to the chemical darkroom:

http://digital-photography-school.com/20-incredible-photo-manipulation-examples

Twenty-first Century versions — in some cases — of what Bosch and Breugel were doing back in the fifteenth...or even Dali and Magritte in our own time.

Leonard