Monumental carpark

Great work! Great colours!

Awesome…................................extraordinary place, amazing image.

Such an open area .. and the view.. amazing and so well done Paul..

i can see why!

feels like the perfect place for a space craft landing
I love the orange lines in the house ….and is that a person standing beside it?
great shot Paul

wow seriously wow

I’m hearing the silence.

two worlds collide… great concept.. wonderful shot… it’s amazingly still…........... you can feel the quiet…...........b

Oh My God, I am seriously in love with this ♥

WOW… :-0 Beautiful image.

What an amazing landscape. I really love the tones and processing of this image, it really compliments this desolate landscape.

amazing work…2 deserts meet.

Love it Paul….what a treat for the eyes!

Interesting perspective. Love your processing. Great highlighting on the red.

Lovely shot….and fantastic colours…..

Lovely shot….and fantastic colours…..

How mad is this shot….....???? So love what you see young man…...........brilliant eye.

No way – seriously! Delicious like eating an image with your eyes (and yes i am serious).

I can see why. Love the treatment, the perspective and the contradictions. Fabulous.

I love the desolate beauty of this.

It just works so well!!!!

I know its real and an awesome view, but somehow my mind is telling me it is a huge poster on the edge of a car park, on a wall…. Love the colour, detail and the treatment is fantastic…!

I got a similar feeling going across the Nullabor by train – the sense of isolation is very well captured in this shot :)

great title, even better photo. Classic American Landscape.

Wow…..would love to do some shooting there…..when are you going back????

i’m looking at it going “it can’t be real, it just can’t!” amazing stuff :)

What a fabulous shot and place to be….pull in whereever you like and what a view…WOW! Where are you Now?

Fantastic colour and processing looks like a painting almost, you are blessed to have traveled to some of these amazing places.

Awsome shot Paul; as always.
Because of my ~40 trips to the USA, I tend to think of America as one large carpark.
Joni Mitchell summed it up perfectly:

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique and a swinging hot spot

Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

great shot and what an amazing backdrop, well done

Great eye to capture this in such an intriguing way. Well done, as usual :)

Wow, awesome. I have never seen Monument Valley from this location. You sure got some different captures from there Paul. Just love them all

Three buttes, three light poles, and three black concrete filled buffers to protect the poles….as well as everything compressed into the bottom third…..I can see why you were shocked into silence, you’ve done it to me here and now.

Fantastic work! Love everything about it!

Cool! Like it alot!

Great work comment in italics so as not to disturb

Such a beautifully silent image. Your work has such a delicate touch Paul.

wow, can imagine how you felt.
Great shot
Henk (my site: stolkphotography)

Simply stunning view. Love your comp and as always your colours are devine. Very serene image

I love your empty landscapes. I can see the silence. Beautiful places where one can see oneself without distortions. As if this scene is painted on the canvas of your own mind.

Fabbulous framing and I love the contrast between the straight modern lines and the ancient rock.

awesome image,,, well done

Awesome work!

This is great, quite surreal.

great shot…..wish i could find a carpark as empty as that!!

What an eye-catching scene Paul, presented beautifully as usual.

How did you accumulate a million admirers of your work?! (probably because you’re a visual genius!) I love the way you juxtaposed man-made and natural, when most people would step beyond the car-park for an unobstructed view!

That car park is just wrong! By that I mean crikey! A car park like that in a pace like that!
Love this image because it fires my inner environmentalist :)

Breathtaking…thought provoking and visually stunning

how wonderful to see such a site first hand Paul,the landscapeis amazing so is this shot,congrat.

tomg is right (quoting joni mitchell) but the upside is photos like these! I agree with Andy – maybe ‘da camera dont lie’ – but my brain tells me its a poster.

lines
great

Awesome – you always manage to get beautiful light in your images Paul – don’t know how you do it but it’s distinctive and really works.

what can i say but….......

BRILLIANT

I love it! This is awsome.

Hey Paul.
you always have a certain tone to your pictures. Its looks like its your signature. I like it. It give your photo’s something timeless. Especially on this one. It could be the 50’s or the 90’s or whenever. Great. keep them coming

Are you sure this isn’t a drive in. Gold

I really dig the tones and the “atmosphere” of this shot. Well done!

Great work Paul, I like the Tones, nice and warm

Heyyyyyyyyy, now this looks apocalyptic. maybe you were the last guy on earth.

_{if i could only getcha on top of one of those buttes with only a white shirt on railing at the heavens}

What a stunning capture! And an incredible comment on our urban environment! Awesome shot!

Love this! – a Vanzella classic.. the idea of it been a poster is very intriguing… it adds to the surreal quality of the image. I also like Twinkles comment on the juxtaposition.

just love the fact that your sickeningly talented eye roves the carpark for such a magic subject matter. Mere mortals would be reaching for the telephoto or racing up that dirt road for a closer view. Please show us a series on great carparks of the world ASAP

The landscapes there do take your breath away – the red earth, the surreal surprises of the mesas and rock formations, the big sky, and always the light. Love the contrast of the parking lot and the desert., the framing of the mesas in the light poles. Magical!

your work is incredible Paul!! What a sight and the detail is incredible…..love the tones in your images…..Beautiful!!!!!! :)

wonderful image

Jeez H … is this for real?? poah!

what an amazing part of the universe !!!

you manage to convey so beautifully.

Gorgeous framing what a wonderful shot.

looks like a filmset with a painted background
I like that postprocessing you do

sensational again paul

Like a scene out of a science fiction movie….WOW!!

Wow – This place is on my definate wish list to see – i’ve seen so many pictures of it before but never from here. Still instantly recognisable but what a great concept and idea which works magnificently. All of the components add up so well together, the empty car park (this wouldn’t have the impact with any vehicles there), the perfectly positioned and spaced lights, that small clump of grass on the far right of the car park, the pathway leading to that lone hut, the trademark monument valley scape and the large open sky.

Top it all off with trademark Vanzella kissed lighting and there is one truly striking image to boot.

This is magnificent, Paul! A perfect vantage point.

Your choice of tones are of pure perfection as far as I’m concerned. This area looks familiar to me…Arizona???

Just superb, Paul.

another most unusual work, Paul

this would obviously also be beautiful without the the carpark, but the lights and lines just make it that much more interesting!

outstanding work and great tones..love it

the vibrancy in the colours and the surrealism….captures the moment and creates a great mood paul…lovely!

Very cool…... Parking with a view…..

great shot. looks like something from an eery movie

wow – this is two worlds that have collided :)

This is absolutely beautiful – I love the lights in there. What a view!

I want to get off the concrete carpark and get on that dirt road and see where it takes me!

Awesome, looks like ancient giant train carriages, or tombs for massive neanderthals that once roamed the barren landscape.

By putting a carpark in front of the mountains and plains, it is like making the landscape commercially accessible, just like a supermarket (and we can park at the door). It makes a commodity of the land. It is a classic American landscape because America is where all our consumer trends come from—it combines the key components of iconic, awe-inspiring scale, consumerism and the open road. Great work.

...wow funny you should say that… my back was actually facing the supermarket.. THIS IS THE SUPRMARKET’S carpark… wow – love your insight here….

Your composition always amazes me, paul, and I always spend ages looking at your work! it fascinates me in so many ways.

brilliant!!

Marvelous. I frequently find myself in awe of things which are basically crap….. such a view may well be fatal.

I never got this one in my activity feed…..... what a view…..jaw dropping scene….

my mouth is agape too! an unbelievable scene, an incredible capture!

Superb, a lot of people (myself included) would have rushed over to the edge of the carpark to get it out of frame, to the detriment of the shot as it turns out.
Love the epicness, which may be a word I just made up.