The Dentist

Oh my….a classic Vanzella here!

Maybe shazza needs to see this guy, she’s always on about the dentist :)

Great one Paul!

beautiful shapes in this one. nicely ordered.

Great clean image. Nice one.

I notice they are green cones.

walks to work?...a dentist?...mustn’t be a very good one… probably the whole point… he misses every chance to take x-rays, perform root canal treatment, etc…..

and by the way Paul, great image with all these incredible shapes

Nice!

Love the green! Your attention to detail is wonderful. Your dialogue is strong as always – love art that gets me pondering :)

haha! It’s Tim Burton on GREEEEENNN!

brilliant setting!!!!

Rob the dentist? Isn’t he only ever preoccupied with his mirror? LOL
Classic style Paul….excellent POV and capture….
Classy image.

Green and serene, just what I need. Repeating patterns of trees and cones, long shadows, and wonderful flat tones all combine to provide a calming and very satisfying scene! You have the most amazing talent Mr V!

He strides like a man committed to his work….agh! ....Love your eye, and the way you handle light;)

just love those shapes….. so bitey in their apparent stillness…..classic image Paul

Dentists frighten me, however this is an endearing image….........vintage PVz

Classic, Vintage Vanzella, as always, Paul !!!! A wonderful blend of lighting, colours, shapes, toning and determination in that stride !!! BTW, hope there aren’t any cops ready to book him for jaywalking, also why is he wearing his uniform outside the surgery? Is he running a ‘sidewalk/carpark business’ or doesn’t hygiene/health laws apply to him? Also agree with Jim – a dentist with no ‘flash wheels’ cant be making too much money !!

Hmmmm… what jumped out at me..is the symetry in this.. the rows of cones..the rows of trees…. Like TEETH! I also noticed that there are no other people around, perhaps they ran when they saw him! I know I would… Dentists scare the hell out of me! It can’t be easy being a dentist… a very interesting peice PV : ) as usual. well done! Wen x

Fabulous lines, Paul – very fifties looking image – well done :-))

BRING IT BACK Paul BRING IT!! ...lol ; )

looks like a set from the film Mon Oncle – Jacques Tati. great image!

What I can`t believe is that nobody`s made the correlation with the teeth… there`s teeth everywhere in this image. And he probably DOES notice them, and feels like pulling those fckin’ green bicuspids out of the ground every time he walks past. In fact, he`s already seen to it that the tops of the trees are filed flat. He likes order in his life… you can see this in hihs stride. In fact, he probably doesn`t want to pull those cones at all. I reckon he`s carefully landscaped the whole scene and it cost him so much he`s had to sell the Merc, which is why he`s walking to work…

Paul, I so love your stuff and how it makes me ponder. You are simply awesome!

sorry… Sweetscent did notice. I should read more than I babble!!!

nature is wonderful

Maybe he had a couple of cones already. Very nice Paul. Strange ambience indeed. Giorgio Di Chirico visits Canberra or something. Amuses me in a disquieting way – like laughing in a police car.

omg you f**ing what? where on earth did you find this? how can you get so much depth of field? wow! :o

you put him where he should be… or found him there….. between rows of teeth … tall green ones .. and short badly spaced greener ones…........ and him in the middle of all that green… love the symbolism i find here…....... b

Hilarious Paul. You have the comic eye of Jacques Tati.

oh the lines
perfect

So PV, love it …

From the fantastic tones & lines to the apparent simplicity- fantastic image

Great work, Paul! Love the story-telling in this image, as always, a thought-provoking artwork with top class composition and post production. :-)

far out, paul, this is frikken great!

good one, Paul…

If I didn’t know better, I’d imagine you were a graphic designer perhaps Paul. Who else could create such an intense sense of design sophistication as you do? The fact that you also do postwork that is the very equal of your design work is almost too much to handle, lol! I still love you even if you’re too good to be true! Great piece!
:7D

Love the neat, crispness of your work, Paul…......this is just great, the sole human being demanding attention slap-bang in the centre between the bottom third and middle third area, the trees like rows of green teeth, and the spiky green cones like rows of green teeth all surrounding him…....... Wonderful sense of isolation.

Great work Paul

He does notice them but keeps it a secret, as he gets off on those erect green pointy cones and those tall slender trees, they give him the sexual high he requires before he reaches his surgery and looks into the mouths of his patients, as there he has to contain his emotions, there is no place for a dentist with a fascination with masturbation using green dental floss.

Wow this is so evocative – I’m seeing all things fifties and sets of teeth everywhere. Very unique are just brilliant!

love this so much…such a unique vision!!

ha ha sweet…. lovin it paul….

yes yes you must have been inspired by the movie mon Oncle, A marvelous journey into fantasy land. This dentist appears to be walking the jaws of death. love it! love the interesting shapes Paul

BF (a dentist) is off to a 5 day conference tomorrow. First thing packed: Golf Clubs!

Fabbo image PV… love the pointy green fang-like shapes all through it… they remind me why I chose NOT to study dentistry! Love ya work! : ))

all dentist’s are…..strange….better not say too much…..they also all play feckin’ golf!! don’t ask me why….it’s a VERY stressful job!

outstanding image great cropping …fantastic.tone, and use of the cones

there is so much to see :) he better hurry up does he not see the no walking sign….brilliant work Paul….LOVE your work!!! :)

okay, I just gotta ask…are those cones for real? or did you put them there. this kinda vanzella work is so classic and so…surreal. You know those beautiful miniature renderings of buildings/streets/malls/airports, etc that Architects use to create 3D images of their plans? Thats what these photographs look like…meticulous, directed, as if everything in the image was placed there with precision and forethought. its fantastically creative.

Love the green cones with the green trees and his purposeful gait. As always, wonderful work.

great work Paul
Reminds me very much of jeffrey smart

As always. Great work. Really like the scale of this.

astounding, and as was noted further up the replies, TEETH everywhere

your work is very reminiscent of a certain DH !

:-)

Love ‘N Laughter

Kriss

The whole image seems to be made up of teeth….. green ones that is,great setting

such a scarey thought!
wonderful lines and colour.

great image. wow. this image will remain in my head forever. stellar work.

Lurve your use of geometric shapes in this Paul, even in his walk…strong imagery

beautifully surreal scene – fits the crisp, clean world of the dentist.

Where do I buy a ticket to Vanzella Land? Your images always have a bit of the surreal. I wonder how one expands the mind as far as you do without enhancers. This is a wonderful image from what seems a different time and space. Thank you for sharing your gift.

Everything.

Killer image.

love all the lines and angles

love it. disneyland?

He apparently didn’t notice you while you took this photograph. :-) I like those cylindrical trees in the background. The cones and the trees create an interesting repeating pattern

lol – quite

I really love this Paul.

ha, this is great makes me smile, yove created a sureal world, well done

He is obviously so used to working with smaller pointy things that he completely overlooks large pointy things :) This is so funny.

he doesn’t notice he’s walking in a yet another perfect vanzella-picture

Hey, it jsut so happens that I am in the dental field,,,,,maybe he doesnt notice because his brain is thinking of all the scientific and technological wonders he can use to give you a beautiful smile and a healthy mouth…..and its is stressful…. have you ever wondered how you would feel if all your clients tell you , every time,, that they’d rather not be there, and they dont like you??
Or,, he could be thinking of the links!!!
Great shot!!

Just superb Paul, brilliant in production, great angles and lines, very geometric, and love the green hazard hats!

looks perfect to me!

oh yeah, thats me. but not really.

Beautiful image mate, well titled! The green witches hats are so unuasual! :)

It always amazes me how you take a really ordinary scene and transform with your own magic touch into a stunning photo!

excellent, love it!!!

he doesn’t notice that he’s walking through a Vanzella dreamscape! :D

surreal

What are the green triangles? Great piece by the way.

OMG are you kidding me this one is killer with that green…......wow what an amazing image you never cease to amaze me

Beautiful. This guy doesn’t walk, he marches.

i love the repetition with a dentist in the mix! :)

I love this. It has an EGGLESTON feel to it, in its straightforwardness, somewhat deliberate, flattened tonal range, and ‘ordinary’ subject matter. Seeing beauty and art in the ‘ordinary’ when most of us see nothing. I think it’s a bold photo, and a hugely successful one.

Great title. The thumbnail really drew me in.