To Highway

Paul Vanzella

To Highway

Again, continually obsessed with the Italian signage and autostrades – and then all of a sudden this landscape just cried out to me. It was so perfect, just the way I like it – sparse, remote, golden and with a hint of industry driving past. I waited, risking a small amount of life and death, waiting for the right vehicle to drive past – could not have asked for anything better as this truck with perfect streamlined graphics appeared matching perfectly with the blue sign and all. I’m done!

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To Highway by Paul Vanzella
  • webgrrl

    webgrrl

    You’re good!!! unbelievable capture/timing..etc

  • Lindsay Blamey

    Lindsay Blamey

    Oh Yes!... Perfect!

  • cameron barnett

    cameron barnett

    Congratulations..its only when one feels life and death behind the lens that you start to truly appreciate the photos you are taking. So many brilliant photos Paul. Your output is awesome.

  • Hayley Lees

    Hayley Lees

    How do you get that ‘dreamy’ effect with all your work? Setting on camera? Film? Processing?

    I love it, it’s kind of got the lomo with slide film look .. but better!! all your photos are great, they don’t look static, I don’t know what it is … but they all feel like they have an element of movement in them … keep posting

  • Cameron Stephen

    Cameron Stephen

    Love this one Paul, another homage to Smart, this one. Great capture!

  • davecurtain

    davecurtain

    love it paul- very distinctly you!

  • gaylehebbard

    gaylehebbard

    Very nice work.

  • meanderthal

    meanderthal

    mmmmmm tasty!!!

  • Melinda Kerr

    Melinda Kerr

    Just like a Geoffery Smart painting! Great!

  • evodence

    evodence

    very nice shot

  • Christiaan

    Christiaan

    Nice! Have you ever thought of using HDR? I know you would like what you could do with it, and since your photoshop skills are very good you could easily turn the HDRs into very nice images, since a HDR is always still a pretty rough result without the finetuning of Photoshop.

  • Jason Smith

    Jason Smith

    I’ve never seen a sign, truck and road all look so beautiful. Great composition and colors.

  • Mel Brackstone

    Mel Brackstone

    You really do find the most amazing photos out of scenes we’d all drive past! BRavo!

  • noslegof

    noslegof

    really like the blue and the asphalt here

  • Marina Alexander

    Marina Alexander

    Fascinating image, you have turned the banal into beauty!

  • davecurtain

    davecurtain

    paul i have just bought this as my first redbubble print – thanks!

  • Paul Vanzella

    Paul Vanzellafounder

    DAVE – YOU LEGEND! That’s unbelieveable… thank you so much for liking this enough to buy…. really appreciate it, that is so amazing….! THANK YOU!

  • davecurtain

    davecurtain

    all thanks go to you, look forward to seeing more of your work

  • Lost Lost

    Lost Lost

    Beautiful shot. Love the truck in the BG too. You and trucks go hand in hand..

  • Durotriges

    Durotriges

    Great work! It almost looks like an airbrushed background! This is awesome stuff! :-D

  • Andrew  Maccoll

    Andrew Maccoll

    This shot is insane… best thing I’ve seen on Red Bubble so far… it’s the truck placement that throws me

  • ChimpCity

    ChimpCity

    such a striking image… love the colours and that blue sign, can’t get enough of it!

  • Martin Derksema

    Martin Derksema

    Magic picture. Like a road movie catched in one frame.

  • CarlaOsinski

    CarlaOsinski

    This is awesome and captured my attention in the herald/sun this weekend…so good to see Red Bubble being promted out there!

  • Michelle422

    Michelle422

    Paul, I think this may have been the first of your works that I saw after joining Red Bubble. I thought, “Wow, this is good.” It reminded me of my favourite artist Jeffrey Smart.

    But, as I have found, your work is so very diverse. I have tried to view all your works but my dial up Internet is too slow when loading. We are going to get a satellite connection soon so I will really be able to dive in! I have been telling my friends about you as well. Best wishes, Michelle.

  • AidensImage

    AidensImage

    This is a great shot… I really like it. Well done

  • Angella Neary

    Angella Neary

    very nice, this feels like where I’m standing at in my life sometimes :D

  • liak

    liak

    Perfect again.

  • Richard Hariri

    Richard Hariri

    i love the warm glow out of this. plus the contrast between the soft landscape and hard urban scene is awesome

  • ~ Ari  ~

    ~ Ari ~

    this is awesome .. i love that you sat there waiting for the right moment .. and when it presented itself, you caught it :)

  • ellejayerose

    ellejayerose

    makes me think of the intro of the david lynch movie ‘the lost highway’

  • Angel Gold

    Angel Gold

    Very interesting…which way?...I know the arrow shows one which way they should go…but what would happen if they went the other?

    Cool truck by the way…

  • Ciaran O'Hagan

    Ciaran O'Hagan

    lovely golden tones, and ithink the blue sign adds another dimension…intriguing!

  • glenzilla

    glenzilla

    I like this a lot

  • Frank Sartori

    Frank Sartori

    Paul your images are awesome!!
    love the treatment you provide to them, how do you do it??
    great work
    frank

  • Larry  Stewart

    Larry Stewart

    I faved this a few days ago, but failed to leave a comment because of time constraints. However, I have to say this is one of your best pictures. There is so much going on that words do not even do it justice. For you to capture the truck going by with a BLUE stripe (of all things) is simply amazing and really finishes the image off with a bang. Keep up the good work Paul.

    P.S. I wish you sold this as a card.

  • Paul Vanzellafounder replied

    card available now… i have this like 1.5m wide on canvas hanging in my lounge room, and yes, i waited for that truck – good old Italian landscape offered up the perfect colour palette! How cool! : ))

  • Rhana Griffin

    Rhana Griffinvanilla slice maker

    If only life could be so clearly signposted. Our Maker obviously wasn’t Italian ;)

  • Paul Vanzellafounder replied

    ...clever comment Rhana… thank you! (you are so smart) : ))

  • Anette Tyler

    Anette Tyler

    Great capture

  • Pip Gerard

    Pip Gerard

    the fork in the road that we all encounter… the time to make that choice that will effect the direction of our lives. I just love the symbolic nature of this work. It means so much to me – thank you.
    Now is the arrow a temptation or a guide – yet another fork.

    No Smart here – pure Vanzella.

  • animo

    animo

    fabulous image – and stellar timing!

  • Sharon Mau

    Sharon Mau

    ‘Ae! It is so classic and perfect in everyway!

  • Jennifer Woodward

    Jennifer Woodward

    This image is actually making me think, no, I don’t want to go right, purely because the sign is telling me to! Then the other sign in the distance looks like it’s pointing upwards! I want to go that way instead! Excellent composition here, Paul!! :-)

  • AnaCBStudio

    AnaCBStudio

    yeah…you are done…great shot!

  • Daniel  Sly

    Daniel Sly

    Interesting shot, really well done!

  • hangingpixels

    hangingpixels

    interesting image indeed. Hey thank you for the comment.

  • Steven  Sandner

    Steven Sandner

    Cools! apparently italian drivers are as insane as their roads! ...couldnt be as bad as NZ though… ...iv seen a round-about with 2 major roads intersecting and a train like going through the middle of that!

  • Brendan Schoon

    Brendan Schoon

    Great shot, excellent composition!!
    Brendan

  • Braeden Yoncak

    Braeden Yoncak

    thats awesome!
    sweet capture

  • madworld

    madworld

    For some reason this looks like a g string to me??? My brain must be getting addled…great shot by the way.

  • luis ferreiro

    luis ferreiro

    Awesome image!!

  • Cindy Olivier

    Cindy Olivier

    nice image

  • rightasrain

    rightasrain

    What’s a small amount of life and death if you can get a photo like this ;-)

  • Paul Vanzella

    Paul Vanzellafounder

    thank you so much – i just couldn’t believe that visual was right in front of my eyes!

  • Wayne  Pearson

    Wayne Pearson

    Excellent Paul.

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