Housing Commission: Collingwood

Oh, beautifully done! I have a love affair with these buildings and you’ve captured them better than I ever managed to.

Looks like a wonderful place Paul, very beautifully taken…would love to see you perched on that wall too…for perspective reasons of course, hehe!!

It looks like the villa capri darlink! i love how u hve changed the whole mood
no longer commission housing! very chic
I like the way the heavy granite wall in the foreground anchors the brightness
love this..

Very Hockney! Love the hint of plants at the top of the wall.

These buildings give me the screaming heebie jeebies whenever I visit Melbourne. You’ve managed to make them look far less bleak and depressing :)

Such a great capture…..whilst you were dining….so a man can do two things at the one time!!!!!

like the strong lines

Paul, only you could make a bunch of high rise housing commission look so good!

The view was better than the food! LOL!!
Wonderful filling of the space, atmospheric! :D

A very fresh and beautiful perspective. I love how the little palm trees pop over the top too. They look like little tufts of grass. Gorgeous as always =)

What an amazing view! You have served up a wonderful dish to us here. Tasty light and shadow, as well as special sauce framing and topped with the garnish of wonderful sky.

great style of work. clean and vibrant. fantastic post production work

Love your work, it is always so fresh …

great view

Shame about the food Paul…but you managed to save the day by somehow making housing commission flats look harmonious;)

Nice eye you have there Paul!! Great perspective on another wise dull tower block!!

This shouldn’t work… that big block of dark concrete at the bottom should present a barrier to the viewer, turning them away. And yet for some strange reason it doesn’t. The buildingd in the background compell the viewer to want to take a step closer, to catch a peek over the edge and see the whole picture.

It works. =)

Professor Vanzella stood in front of the hushed auditorium, his hair wild and unkept and half his breakfast still in his scrappy beard. His entire thesis on the organic regeneration of inner cities hinged on this point.

“As ve can see by this time lapse shot, multi-storey tower blocks no longer need to be built, this image shows the growth of them from left to right. Vith the correct preparations of ze ground they vill grow from seeds and vithin six months they reach a height of 24 floors!”

He hoped his accent hadn’t made him sound too much like Doctor Strangelove, he he scanned the room looking for anyone agreeing with him, the bright lights hurt his eyes but the snickering and guffaws heard suggested differently.

sometimes your best image is right under your nose…
The image sublime : The cropping superb.

Love the little church cross on the left. great stuff! M:>

TAFE will never be the same again…...........................

Something beautiful from something so ordinary….lovely image with your usual great tones.

This is fantastic Paul.. your treatment in this is really compelling, looking more like a fine art illustration than a photograph. Its an odd composition with the wall in the foreground blocking the view but one that works so well. Love all the fine detail in this, the windows, the church cross, the cloud.. excellent work!

I love these buildings, strangely. Your photos are always so uncluttered and simple but interesting. Love the way this almost looks like an illustration!!

I agree, totally with TwinkyDinks….............it does look like an illustration….....you are a legend with these simplistic, yet mesmerizing images…........................(“We are not worthy”.......said whilst bowing) ;+)

Nice work – shame about the food

What a shot Paul.
Great angle.
could be one of the backgrounds of a marvel comic.
great treatment.

sorry about the food,I agree the view is wonderful,love the comp,great finish

Yes!

Nice one Paul.

As you say, some of the best photos may be hidden in what we see every day! Love how the pink of the sky lends itself to the buildings making it look as if they are chameleons, slowly taking on the color of their surroundings.

You make the housing commission flats look fabulous Paul. Love the comp and colours

Man those light and colors…what a composition! Love it!

Nice balance, Like the top of the plant, it hints….... —excellent image….

theres a quiet ambiance about this shot, and something that would normally be big looks small I like it

beautiful!

Love the lines and tones! The fact that the plants are poking out of the ugly concrete wall make me want to peek over the wall to see more!

Paul, you have a knack of making the plain and ordinary look great, I am just so jealous of the light you guys have down there

You live in a spacious city Paul, or maybe it’s the condo’s at Chernobyl. However simple, always has your unique style…

I’m a big fan of your minimalist urban landscapes Paul, this is another beauty, well seen, I love the softness of the foliage at left contrasting with the hard lines of the buildings.

another stunning piece .. you make it look so beautiful ..

Another stunner Paul! I love this style of yours :-)

I had to laugh at Andrew Walkers description, but in the end I’m still sitting here in awe of how you can produce such an interesting and compelling image from such traditionally ugly and mundane objects. Love your eye, Paul Vanzella.

Perfection on the page, great image, lovely soft tones. You make them look stunning (commission flats)

visual alchemy…... transforming the mundane into the marvellous

There’s something about this composition that just makes you want to see more – beautifully rendered Paul.

Wow! this looks so good!

it’s the crisp clearness what makes this shot tic. Like it

you dont have to go far to find beauty

such a wonderful capture Paul…. You find very minimalist scenes that on the face of it could look very ordinary and you transform them with the detailing and whatever processing you do to look like stunning art works… brilliant!

very beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!

nice one….

Well at least you got something better than indigestion – pretty cool shot.

ah, the northern metropolitan institute of tafe, now that’s where i studied my photography. a great place to have your office hey! just love that part of melbourne! the view was better than the food! LOL, this photograph depicts that very well. love the treatment used here, it really gives this a real hand drawn feel! ;-)

great composition

all of your work is so outstanding that i can’t decide which pieces i like best…i just love all of ‘em!

Perfect interesting composition! Fabulous:)

reminds me of a hockney painting – has a real british cynicism to it :)

i love this kind from yours…remember me from the famous novel from Aldous Huxley …Brave World..unique pic!

Great job Paul once again, I love the treatment you use on your work.

Hi Paul. I really like this – it reminds me of the work of Australian artist Jeffrey Smart. In fact come to think of it, you and he have a similar ‘eye’ What he does with a brush, you can create with your camera and your magic touch with PS!

brilliant/once again the treatment is a vanzella special/so so unique

Fantastic work well done.!

you always manage to impress me. how you always find the perfect composition to create such surreal atmosphere is amazing. fantastic, paul.

Very minimalist! Great stuff Paul, it continues to suprise me how you find/see so much of this style, though from what I know of Melbourne it would be a great training base for it.

kinda like a cartoon , great work!!!

I had to look twice, that looks like an animated version of collingwood. really interesting!

Yes the colours are slightly surreal. Nice work Paul.

I have been playing with commission housing in the UK. They are infinity fascinating to me. When i go abroad i also look out for these wonderful structures. So much structure and form.

I think you’ve really captured the essence of the place… great stuff!;-)

Soooo jeffery Smart

perfect balanced space and color

BIG THANK YOU to the person who bought this! WOW!!!!