Oak Alley Plantation

I love the way the massive old trees frame the view, and what a view. You find the most interesting scenes on your travels, making the mundane so rich and compelling!

Great lighting. Love trhe natural framing …

framing of minimalism… great aspect

Your master of this palette and perspective collapsing is astonishingly ideosincratic Paul. Folks who study cerebral mechanics understand that the neutral look on a human face creates the most mischief in the minds of viewers. Neutrality is a sort of vacuum into which observers are sucked to create stories… and everything about these creations of yours is normally neutral except… except for the slightly askew palette.

How does that resonate? Some might say sinister? Others perhaps, seductive? Foreboding? And the Freudians… well they are feasting upon the way you kick at their ids.

It is a wonderful technique to make neutral into a doorway to everyone’s personal story. Very… very… very… cool.

Very Beautiful!!

Terrific composition and eye—even the framing of the white car is appealing to me. I like the colorization you’ve used, too. It looks like a ‘60s snapshot, and I’ve been seeing more it lately. Care to share a tutorial on this effect?

great image

The framing and composition of this simple scene is exceptional! I love diagonal lines and angles and there are an abundance here converging and leading us further into the shot. I find that your choice of including people in your composition is just a brilliant way of making the work a dynamic entity as opposed to a static landscape. The colors are superb and this is just another great example of the idyllic images you create and are known for!

Extraordinary…..the flat lawns…leading into the arch oaks….

Love your perspective and vision.

Love how you get drawn over to the horizon. What was over that hill?
M:>

Fantastic image Paul. I just can’t stop looking at it! Well done indeed.

what a grand site and sight

That’s it! You have to travel more often!!

Love your minimalist approach. If Smart had done trees I reckon this is how he would have done them.

Everything that Ted Byrne said plus I love the way your images are instantly recognizable from just the thumbnails. Everything about them just screams style, class and talent! :)

superbly proportioned
brilliant interpretation/keep them coming

Love how the eye is lead down the path…............

Brilliant comp Paul, and your processing gives it almost a surreal quality. Love it!!!!

beautiful shot!

Well seen,awesome treatment to compliment the image!! Love it.

Your work has such a smooth, stylized, gorgeous quality – masterfully composed and delicious tones.

This is a neat view. Excellent work!

Wonderful – I love how you achieve a wonderful color palette and sort of flatten it all, and then bring back light details, like on the trees….

I can immediately sense the age of those magnificent trees. They would have been framing and looming over people within that pathway for over a century at least! Can’t you just picture women in their billowy gorgeous 19th century dresses… walking leisurely down the pathway? Or men in their war uniforms on horses…. I can.
It’s almost like the tourists, the car, the fence and even the paved pathways are somehow out of place… like they look too futuristic for the trees and the landscape. The sky and the trees look authentic and as though they belong (helped so much with your gorgeous vintage soft colour treatment) but the image inside the frame seems out of place. Like you’ve got a 2009 photograph inside an antique photo frame. So intriguing.
love it!

Like everyone else, I love your PoV with the trees framing an idyllic scene. The clam neutral tones are surprisingly “alive”, there’s lots of energy in this shot. The couple walking towards you draw the eye in and then behind, to the hill beyond them. In some ways, your treatment of this reminds me of an English painting – no particular one, just an English one – the small signs of modernity break that illusion.

A stunning image!

I absolutely LOVE trees like this. That’s what I love about Hyde Park in Syd leading up to the fountain. The sky line in the bg is perfect in this – I really love your style – so painterly!

love those huge old oak trees and their framing. Marvellous image Paul

Paul…..........the framing in this is image reminds me of when you drive along a road with the trees all forming a canopy, one of my favourite scenes…...and you have captured a similar view so perfectly here…this is outstanding and your tones and lighting are to be commended…....
A vision that only you could reproduce with such amazing illustrative results…..

Great composition. Love all the different elements that simply work so well together.

this is a stunner paul.
its got that 70’s paintings feel to it.
a wonderfull natural frame.
a great eye.
super stuff man.

hell paul.just to let you know.
i keep comming back to this one and i wonder why.

this is one gorgeous pic man

Kind of dream like – an American fundamentalist’s utopian dream perhaps? (Minus the girl hugging the alsatian next to a fruit basket). You have created something special here Paul – and its intriguing ‘cos I haven’t got a clue how.

I feel as tho im looking into a painting, it’s wonderfully proportioned and has a lovely tone

wow amazing trees Paul..the make the perfect frame..and outstanding framing of the tourists..perfect.

Exceptional Paul…...all the elements are there, like in a Rockwell piece!

outstanding work

amazing!

Paul this is Brilliant And I agree with Teds comment above… the Psychological intrigue in your images do let the viewer really imagine and write a story in their minds… and I have to say just a beautiful shot!

your pleasure in exploring new places and in bringing us, the viewers, into your world is apparent in every detail of this image! I’ve never seen trees quite like this and you’ve brought them so beautifully alive here. The shadows they cast and they way they frame the walkways, road and the visitors draws me right into your appreciation of the land & setting. I can’t stop looking at the trees, then the sky & clouds -then back to the people. then I’m drawn right back to the gorgeous, elegant trees! yet another bit of genius here Paul!!!

just BRILLIANT work here Paul…really, very, very good. image construction, perfect. lighting, perfect. mood and ambience, perfect. WWOW…..

a very beautiful and enticing capture and composition Paul, it takes your wonderful work in yet another direction with your distinct touch still present.

fantastic – brilliant style and lighting. you bring a real ‘painting’ quality to your images

It reminds me of Pleasantville. I’m sure this has been asked before – do you have a painting background Paul?
Beautiful piece by the way :)

Excellent work. The colours and the composition is great

look at those gorgeous tree’s surrounding that couple. Almost like they are bowing. Great framing

Paul, what glorious trees and the people add a lovely sense of scale to this shot. Well done.

Oh God… What Ted and Mel said… Love the trees, as always your perspective is fantasic. Wish I knew how to manage colour the way you do it’s so seductive to the eye and mind.

Yes, your colortones are so beautiful everytime. The trees, the tourists, a story, almost a fairy tale… great image Paul.

Wonderful work again paul!

This is so well seen Paul, love the colour.

I just wouldn’t have seen this, really like the the swoosh of the path through the shot and the spacing and balance of the people.

Sensational framing, this appears as a scene from a movie Paul, it is wonderful!

stunning work

Such a different light over there – you have captured it perfectly with those mighty oaks:)

this is wonderful. love the shadows across the lawn. such a feeling of expansive space

Outstanding capture

You sure know how to get that perfect shot Paul…awesome!!!

... I am completely agog over your portrayal of light … ooooo … I have sooo much to learn!!!!

I love those trees! a perfect natural frame for the landscape view :)

this is great my friend.

Are you familiar with Dick and Jane? (The original Dick
and Jane.) I remember reading from their books as a child,
and the “apple pie America” photographs which were so
clean & wholesome (seemingly) branded my brain. (or
scarred it..heh.) Anyway, you’ve mimicked it perfectly!
Seriously….....I’m quite impressed, Paul.
:)

this took my breath away! you are seriously talented!

Beautiful…..

THIS IS what I like!...perfect realistic image without HDR crap.
A true and beautiful image should be realistic and without manipulation for adding dramatic effects.
Outstanding, man!

has a painting like feel. something between hopper and manet . another outstanding one

I like this one… reminds me of the 1960’s National Geographic mags that I really love. ... love it love it love it!