I've gotten myself in a bit over my head, volunteering on a website project for the local County Fair authority, and after getting first purchase on the scope of the job, discarded Wordpress, and later (when I simply couldn't wrap my head around it), Joomla. Drupal, it is. :-)
But in that Joomla phase, I (and they) fell in love with Siteground's theme called Nature Jars -- or at least, it's design, which is an in-set main column well, with a silhouetted nameplate image over a full-bleed background, like so:
http://www.siteground.com/template-preview/joomla25/siteground-j16-23
What I like particularly about this design is that while the nameplate image is actually only the size of the column well, it *looks* like it's part of the top background image. (I'll be using a different nameplate, but plan still to silhouette it. And I'd actually like the inset to be even more pronounces -- the gutters wider -- than that.)
I've been looking through the drupal.org themes library, but haven't been able to find anything for D7 that looks all that much like this; does this design perchance tickle anyone's memory?
It's possible, I suppose, that it could be ported, but I'm already growing grass to get a hamburger; I haven't time to truck in the dirt, as well. :-)
Cheers, -- jra