Abstract Arizona

Stunning capture…there is something unreal about this image. Or maybe surreal…I love the feel of the scene – it is dreamlike to me. P.S. I have just ordered your book…can’t wait to receive it.

excellent use of light, color tones and lines! love the way you composed it; simple and so creative!

Yeah, the Looney Tunes thing is SO big in this… I expect that warehouse is full of Acme gadgets, like a huge boxing glove on a mechanical scissors extension is gonna smack the next guy who’s nuts enough to open the doors!

With this, like your extraordinary book, your style never fails to amaze me. And anyone who doesn’t already have Paul’s book, you need to order NOW while you still can. Priceless souvenirs come and go in a flash…

Excellent Paul, Great image. Very well done.

this is such a clean composition -lines and shadows with just a smattering of landscape in the the distance I like it

The stark differences make it appear to be a composite (which I know it isn’t). Excellent.

Paul you really take photography into a higher hemisphere

yet another wonderful image – you never fail to impress…

i love it, you think it should say ‘acme’ on the side?
texture is awesome

Nice work. Colours are great… I get the cartoon vibe from it as well. The photo has a very ‘flat’ look to it.

mmmmm….we must go here one day Paul, take a small tour group….what fabulous images there are to capture! The tones here are impeccable, and yes, that painted backdrop just awesome!

Love the colours and the fine lines of the corrugated iron….the contrast of shapes and the colour tones gives it a great feel….

yes it does remind me of that…great shot

...a beautifully observed image…the best photography is incredibly simple…it’s an easy thing to say, a harder thing to see, but a very difficult thing to do…but you have an uncanny knack of distilling what you see and converting it into a compelling image…great stuff,Paul

You just have a way of finishing off your work that I love…............ would love to know how you do it.

Great clean lines and colour,,, Outstanding work as always Paul!

Lovin’ Mel’s idea….there’s project for you two :)

Again your talent to make so much out of the every day is on display – just love the vast you create with your images.

u could be inside warner brothers studio’s!

I’m with Billybob. Acme gadgets. :) Beautiful colours and overall tones.

You are so totally right, looks just like a painted backdrop, great find!!!!!!!

great composition, balance of color.

That place is huge it’s right out my backyard…Especially that enormous white NASA plane that they used to put the shuttle in…fun place…Tucson is indeed surrounded by amazing mountains…Very nice photo Paul!

Fabulous Paul! I hope to visit Arizona next year. : )

Fantastic, love the starkness of it with the desert behind. Awesome comp and capture as usual Paul :)

Nice one Paul. So serene, so desolate. Smart color pallette. Clean as a whistle. This is the art of composition the way it ought to be done. Looks almost non photographic in its 2 dimensionality. Cool!

Beautiful find P. The straight lines of the building disappearing into the sky and the hard sandy empty space in the foreground are at complete odds with the magical backdrop…..............Vanzella magic at work again. :))

yes Paul. I also think about what some of the l’ooney tunes’ inside the building might be doing. Building the next secret weapon to intimidate Russia perhaps? I find this image vaguely disturbing – but in a good way.

the tones in this are so spacious !!

epic yet somehow intimate too

love this

ena

it appeals to my inner quest for freedom

xxx

Fantastic geometric/landscape image….

The lines, boxes and sheer size dominating this image, makes me think of our world as we’ve created it. (That is not to imply there is not beauty found in said). I am torn between the feeling of the expansive and wanting to race toward the imperfect, curved mountain range.

Your ability to capture two frames / slices of life in the one image in such a powerfully evocative way always has me sitting back in my seat…..

Excellent!

Wonderful perception of isolation Paul, brilliant shot.

Your book arrived had it for two days before our middle daughter pinched it little so and so looks like she received her Christmas present early lol
Amazing work better than I could have hoped for
Thanks Paul

:) as always

Mmm I just realised I said higher hemisphere which would mean your work belong in Italy or something. I meant stratosphere :)

Surreal Paul – your trademark ‘look’ even in the thumbnail

Love the spaciousness of this piece. The lines running down the wall. How clean everything looks and yet the ground is clearly sandy. Also like the hint of brickwork on the foundation wall.And yes the mountain backdrop is to die for. So many different textures.
Very cool!!!!!!

yes Paul -this spells Looney Tunes for me too. a lovely piece. Love your composition here …half expecting to see some tumbleweed roll in form the right…

A clean uncluttered image. Its beautifull.

c-mon paul this aint anywhere near what you can do so lets be honest theres too many lovey doveys and lol”s out therethat have”nt got a clue what they are looking at in an image. i get lol”s same as any serious person taking pics. this image would have been much better without tops of trees and lamp posts sticking up in the background for me-—-—-no offence paul just honest comments.

Perfectly done ! love every thing about it, Great piece of work !

Love this shot, great composition, colours and lighting, a winner, Paul!

The lines, tones, composition and simplicity make this a top notch view! Love your style

Excellent tones and I like the abstract quality…

simplicity rules…. what else can I say…. well except .. excellent work, again

Great work

Simplicity perfection!

Marvelous….........................

Love the simplicity here Paul ,fascinating tones and shapes.

so simple and just so right….

So nice!

excellent work Paul….

My mind’s seized by a sense of deja-glue. It does seem to tractor-beam back to those others of your works and I realize now the brilliance of this series. Darn, it’s like a profound potato chip… “Bet you can’t eat just one”. Collectors will have to own this series to experience the way you deal with alienation as brilliantly as any photo-based artist working today.

this huge canvas you work on is fab. i love the muted green tones.. its got something that i dont know how to describe. a cross between clinical sterility and serene calm..

Paulie! In some ways, the doors actually look open revealing an immense nothingness. And isn’t this how it is sometimes – you go, you get in, and there’s nothing there? What IS in there? All I know is the way in is stark and beautiful and somewhat haunting, like cartoons on a bad day in some writer’s head. Your eye is exquisite and the composition is spot on – perfection….the treees and such don’t bother ME, at all, and I see no lessening of quality here….without them, this becomes strictly graphic art. And I DO need to add, I am lovey dovey and an LOL, to be sure, but I am all that with a MASTER’S DEGREE in photography, and 25 years experience in it, so I dare say, I have a SMALL idea of that which I speak…..but hell, that’s just me…........

fantastic composition ~ beautiful art !!

I missed this – so surreal even the vanishing points are skewed – if there is any, the perspective and colour almost deceive the eye. Fascinating and the blandness adds to this.

S P E L L B I N D I N G !!!!!

Genious Paul… the framing, the pastel palette, the graphic nature, so little but so much here… Brilliant!

PS. I’m so jealous of your travels/opportunities…

It is uncanny how the background looks like it could be a Hollywood landscape set. Very surreal! Great contrast between the industrial and the natural surroundings. And the capture of light on those doors is something else….

Looney tunes written all over it :)....love the surreal look …great tones…this is so cool !!!! :) :)

Excellent work…love your composition!

The simplicity of the building adds to the abstractness when placed amongst its surroundings. It does not look like a traditional museum and looks basic at best but it looks so great when painted with trademark Vanzella lighting licked across the scene with the perfect elements of light and shadow interplaying with one another.

The backdrop adds to the desolation and isolation of the place which would draw one in further to the museum

Wonderful picture!!!

Oddly I see what you mean by Looney Tunes, something about the light through windows. This shot is simple in shapes yet powerful in meaning and environment. Great work. Ellen

_Looney Tunes cartoons _? I can see that. Imagine Wyle E. Coyote chasing the Roadrunner across the vista in the background – - – No. I sense a great emptiness in this image. It is cartoon like but in a peculiar way.

i love your abstract work babe…and i know what you mean about the looney tunes vibe

This is amazing. Those hanger doors are so perfectly empahsised by the light – it would be too much for me if I were there – I would be drawn to them just as they draw me in this image – I need to see whats behind them. This image will give me no end of frustration today :))))))))

love the soft colour palette~

I love your grand scale of things Paul. Another cracker …

still lovin’ those lines

yes, ok, i came back to have another look. ~not to self: I really must get a hobby ~ :)

A winner every time

I do not know about looney tunes but this is a striking image. The background is lovely.

yep I think you can change style now. You reached the ultimate in this one.

always enjoy your sense of color

Totally mesmerized by this one that color green is so brilliant it holds your eye in the photo.

omg, i thought it was a painting! i ‘get’ the looney tunes thing too…road runner, or those ones ‘set’ on a back lot at warner brothers studios….
love your work;) (and i don’t mean that in a cliche way…i do actually love your work…)

Lovely work! beautiful framing and great compositional skills!

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I love the shape, form and color of this photo!

Nice lines and colours

Great eye to see the potential here Paul…

“It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.”
David Bailey

those two shadows showing from the edge are calling me. I desperately want to know what they are!... but dont’ tell me cause I think I like the mystery of them… but then I’m dying to know exactly what was just outside the frame….... I’d assume planes.. but then maybe not… maybe something totally bizarre…. hold on… no don’t tell me… ok tell me… no wait dont….. :)

too good to be on rb

Very graphic, I love it.

Another beauty!

stunningly surreal shot.

Super cool, I love the simplicity