The Cricketers

Nice one Paul… that is SO cricketer to not notice!!

LOL!!!!!!!!

This is fantastic Paul!!!! They look soooooooooooo bored and then you see this tempting siren to the side!! Awesome….. ;-)

Wow Paul, this is fabulous!!! I love the texture in their clothes, and the looks on their faces….the bare arse sets it off nicely! :)

haha… superb… classic… so good

Fab! Well done Paul

I had to look twice…

love this shot….Paul…..you amaze me with every single new image…...

I wondered why you talking about playing cricket Jo…

great shot Paul….........

OMG – I was so busy looking at their faces and the detail, I didn’t notice JO!!

Love it!

I’m sure Richie Benaud would approve. :)

Classic

hmmm i wonder which one is Jo ‘no clothes’..... wait a minute…. no… i’m not sure y’know. Paul, is she the one with the red marks on her trousers from prolonged rubbing of her balls? bet she can’t wear a box with underwear like that on

I have it on good authority that ‘the cricketers’ is the name of a public house in Hampshire where they developed a bat and ball game based on the siege of a castle. never realised that it still was played… tell me is that Ian Botham on the left???

I am sure this would increase viewing numbers!!

original:D

Love the strange and interesting juxtaposition between the subjects; very obviously melancholic (English?) players, versus what I read as a celebratory, victory dancing nude…(Australian perhaps?!) Nice piece Paul.

HA HA!!
Funniest picture i’ve seen on RB!

TOOOO funny…great shot! Love the way it was shot , the eyes are drawn to the center but then you notice that someting extra special…lol Well done :)

Has Warney bought this yet?

Interesting satire. Damn it Darren, you bet me to the gag!! :0)

LOL This is excellent Paul

great one!!

wonderful job with this, all though i don’t know many men who would be bored!!

got me stumped!! they obviously play silly mid on!

hahahaaaaa!! I too was totally wrapped up in their misery…until…!!!! Very funny!

Superb image!
xx Sam

Paul, this is excellent, i have been looking on my laptop at this image with the sun in the top of the screen so i didn’t see the little extra bit of the photo…. until I adjusted the screen… nice touch…

ps Who is the model?

Superb :))))))))

very nice

What a comment. What a shot.

Perhaps it’s not all the fault of our sports men. Perhaps we, society, are to blame too. We thrust them, ill prepared and simple, into limelight and scrutiny. If they win, we cheer. When they fail, we gloat. Perhaps it’s the loss of simple anonymity or the pressures on their families.

Perhaps some of them loathe what they become, what their peers become.

LOL…....., perfext expression…

Very Rockwellian….. i Love the idea that NOTHING can save this day but a tall COLD one or two.
The nature of sports in general-seconds of excitement surrounded by endless moments of banality.
You captured it well!

Exellent Paul…........ Well worth waiting for !!!!

Great work Paul!

Great work Paul. Made me laugh…:-)

wow, almost didn’t notice the naked lady! she practically blends into the wall… well, almost. and once again the highlights and the shadows are superb.

I didn’t notice at first either—awesome!

Cheeky!!! I love – you know this!!! anyone for cricket!
brilliant feel – love the expressions on the lad’s face’s! and i also love the little flecks of light you always seem to get in your shots!

Nice one Paul!
I like it

Super shot….......I dont remember our No.5 Batsmen having an arse like that though. heheheh. Top composition and wonderful treatment.Love the light. I love cricket…..roll on the ashes. I’m not allowed to play anymore now I’m married and a father!

quite cheeky ;-) sometimes you can take sports a little too far. this cracks me up. great humor. very well executed shot.

crickets wikutt paul i dig it

real cricketers would have a tan
cracks me up that there is a chik about to go into bat
has she a box
its a handy piece of protective equipment

...love the expressions on their faces…

Nicely told story here Paul. Slightly dreamlike quality about the image too.

Stylised with that PVZ signature!
Brooding boys in their whites with a touch of cheeky flair to distract the eye!!
Ha! Superb artistic direction…. I look forward to seeing more from this shoot! :D

Ralph magazine would just love it.

You’re a master Paul. Excellent stuff mate!

very nicely done!

Superb work Paul and Jo.

Brilliant piece of ART! The art direction is superb. This belongs in the NGV.

If only I’d known, would’a, could’a, should’a, ought’a, played cricket…..........supurb tones.

love the light in this, very soft, but what is that girl doing there, fab shot anyway.
THE LIGHTING IN THIS IS GREAT. how did you do it. was it done with the camera or the computer. Can not get over the lighting.

as a cricket widow for many years i am sure that this would have made cricket a whole heap more interesting to watch!!

only a cricketer could be so oblivious to such lovely curves! – love the light and treatment – another great composition.

For me this is one of your very bests….

Surreal blueish light….

lol! didn’t see the butt at first and thought it might have been the English team from a distance;)
Love the soft tones Paul and how the light bounces, great shot!

finally uve made cricket FUN!!!

is that blokes waiting for an SMS from warney… look behind U!!

:D

truly brilliant, what lovely piece of…. work

never knew sport was so cheeky

Well – isn’t cricket just TRAGIC.

they’re both thinking of pies and beer

ha ha the Aussie cricket team would think this was a riot.

Also I am with you LOVE the game, roll on summer and the cricket at the G.

if cricketers would look and dress like the one on the left perhaps I too would stay awake watching the game.
Fantastic work Paul as always a pleasure to look at.

Well… cricket has just gained a new fan base! Superb image Paul! Love the capture of the bored looks on their faces, love the processing and the light. Brilliant.

I like quite a few,did not notice the woman in the shot at fist glance,and as a red blooded male i can honestly say,that in this case the image stands perfectly on its own without her,as we are all familiar with “the look” of losing,this image says it to perfection,love everything about it,lighting,pose,processing and mood,well done,as always,Paul.

Ahhh….... can we have a version with the kangaroo, as well,... an’ all ?

This really strikes a humor chord!! Really well done!

Fab

I’ve had to think carefully about this shot. I love the guys and the pensive meloncholy air they are exuding but not that sure it needs the nude. In fact I find her a bit distracting and gratuitous. Not sure it adds that much to what other wise is a great portrait shot.

Didnt she have her knickers pulled down earlier?
Was she feeling a tad exposed lol
Killer Calf muscles

Paul… You’ve done it again! great concept, superb lighting and brilliant execution… well done!

nice work.

Lol I just came back to this shot to tell you I think she should have her knickers on at least, and here she is with them on lol!!! I agree with some of the guys here saying this pic could have stood on hits own without her, but I don’t mind it with the knickers on, a bit less “in the face” but still cheeky.

Ahh… a maiden padding up for another over… who’ll duck?
Deliciously barbed or should I say, pointed.

clever composition Paul, love the disinterested looks on the cricketers faces!

I always knew Steve Waugh had a red handkerchief for luck but I never realised what he wore under his creams as well.

Those knickers have definitely been pulled up. Beaut work, Paul & co.

Another fantastic shot, brilliant work.

wow paul – this looks so smooth! colours – lighting – expressions – almost like a portrait!
great shot (and I don’t like cricket even!)

Wow, interactive Redbubble. Nickers down in the morning, nickers up at night.

So I wasn’t imagining the amazing dissappearing pants. Cricket is such an absorbing game, neither did the cricketers.

Fab lighting effect. Great shot. I would have to assume these are Brits!!!!!!! If that’s what they have on their minds, no wonder they can’t win The Ashes. LOL. I’m a Brit and I’m allowed to say that, I think!

This is so very interesting – a toothy image! There’s so much to it. I love the colors and tones. It has a feeling similar to an Edward Hopper painting, and just a touch of surrealism and moonlight.

lol! that would make it more interesting! damn i would even consider playing cricket under those circumstances!

well done paul, really nice blue tone and great idea, would get me into cricket big time

haha classic!

lol… this is great

Another great image.

LoL, I love this shot, very creative !

excellant image!

Impressive image, I do like that blue ghostly glow. Are they real or are the from times past…...

I love it…

brilliant work again Paul. Very fascintating game indeed! Well done

Gosh darnit ! Will somebody pleeeese tell me, ....what the hell is cricket, where I can sign up, and point me to the locker room!!! I wanna loose a game too, cuz these blokes dont seem to be abl to get their jox off.

Excellent imagery

So this is wht South Africa can never play cricket when they get to Aus. Distractions in the change room.
:)
Excellent shot paul.Love the light on the players.

When I see works of art like this I realise how redundant models are – what you have here are actors. Look at those faces, how emotive they are. And then you step in and create this solemn and slightly surreal world where nothing is as it first appears. The light and texture in this adds so much to the image. Fantastic work.

LOL! This is classic! I love it!

Great, strong image – like all your work. Impressed.

I knew a cricketer once…I would love to have done this to him…...thrown him right of his game
Great shot

Nicely done Wonderful work. You are a master!

Wow love this !! I love this the lighting has created an almost painted feel the comp is fantastic the the tones are great

Excellent work, Paul!

Just brilliant.

haha! brilliant:)

I had to come back and comment again, I think this is the one that I like best out of your Jo series, it just strikes a chord with me. The colours, the positions of everyone, the looks on those guy’s faces, as if they just lost the game and NOTHING else matters….this is priceless Paul, just priceless.

Oh yeah, the cards look great, this blue translates so well!

Great shot!

Great shot!

This is crazy! I am actually mates with the guy in the center of the picture (Perry Klein). I just stumbled upon this picture while checking out your work (which is great by the way!)

Great image! If cricket had been like this when I was at school…...

I like!!! My best friend would love this!!!

i thought cricket couldn’t be made better than it already was….as it happens i like the idea of the dressing room stripper, yano just to calm the nerves

this is so impressive Paul.. I missed this in your collection and decided to make a visit ..something calling.. this gives me a sense of the possibilities of how one may need to concentrate.. by letting go! and the comment by Tom above and your reply makes sense.. your work really speaks and the tones always always I lean from.

LOL, this is brilliant Paul, anyone my brothers spent so many weekends in their “whites”. Just love the treatment, you really are a visual magician!

Absolutely fantastic work! :-)

to be honest paul. my eyes were drawn to the players. took me a few moments with your tones to notice the corner.. and that was only after i read the side! as your light, tones, everything was just puling my eye to the players. esp the middle one.—-chappel

Hah!!!! This is squee fantastic!

lol cheeky but awesome!!!

...Now I know why cricket players rub their balls…

Brilliant, like Earheart my attention was focussed on the players expressions and forlorn body language and those cool blue tones that wash over the image makes it feel almost like a dungeon hence their combined misery, a great contrast to what we expect on those sizzling hot days at the cricket. And I havent even mentioned “those” legs, fantastic work Paul