Lone Woman of Jaisalmer

OMG, Paul – wow!! It reminds me of the Tower of Babel. As always, your processing is just sublime. I can’t stop looking at it!! EASY fave, my friend :))

WOW!!!This so doesn’t look real, what a surreal location, you must have been in heaven… this is fantastic..

I thought it was a sandcastle on the beach in the thumb! OMG A beauty! M:>

Damn, that is a fantastic shot of an unreal place. Had you not pointed out those chairs I would not have seen them but they add a nice touch of modernity to a place dripping with history. Such a nice honeyed glow, too.

What a fascinating place, the stuff of ancient myths & legends.

congrats Paul a stunner

I can’t spit out the right words to say how much I like this.

This is golden, nice capture.

Superb Paul. Only thing wrong with it is that I wasn’t there and I didn’t take it :) Am I jealous – of course :)))

ARTART!

What this is real? This is a delightful place made more amazing with your masterful use of light and dark. it looks like a place which only appears in dreams. Truely a fine detail, I always enjoy your work but with this you have moved to a new level in my book. BRAVO!!

Magical! This looks like an obscure piece of Surrealism, I love the completely mismatched construction of ancient Indian architecture, the straightest line in the whole image is one of the chair legs perched precariously on the balcony. The monsoon clouds in the background really do make the golden colours just that much more striking!

HOLY SHIT, that is amazing!! What a beautiful image Paul and you have really managed to capture that essence that is India. Love it to bits.

That is an amazing place ! its beautifully captured. Love the tones. The woman on her own is a highlight. Just amazing,.

Is there anywhere you haven’t been Paul? This is appealing on so many different levels.

I love the three layers of focus going diagonally across the page
It levels the piece and yet also give a 3D depth to it somehow!
The woman has created such a strange surreal perspective without her in it I could have believed the rocks to have been huge the buildings massive!
and I cant help wondering if “King Artur” had seen this city and created “Camelot” from sandstone to be the golden city as legend proclaimed! [would explain it’s disappearance – English rain would have melted it & winds blown the sand out to sea! lol]
Wonderful shot Sir! (& what was the score?)
Chookas! X♥X

Delightful.

Oh my! Like a stage set! Love the painterly, three dimensional feel to this and the golden tones really resonate with me.

Wow !! This is totally amazing, surreal and beautiful !! Fabulous !!!!!!!!!!!!!! XX
Becca

Amazing work, amazing detail………

Certainly has an unreal quality! Great image, Paul!

I’ve been to Jaisalmer and this is a great depiction… it’s such a magical place and you’ve captured that so well here!!

Amazing picture, like a painting, with wonderful tones.

Wow, that is just incredible Paul. The lighting is sublime and so is the subject.

Aamzing buildings , I can’t believe people were actually living in them , a fantastic capture.

Unreal!!!

fantastic capture Paul

Great shot Paul, looks a bit like Aladin’s play ground! a beautifully captured image!!

wow…thats amazing

Seems divine! You are a great explorer, new columbus in making!!

awesome capture!!!!

Stunning capture, in artistic manner.

Wow mate, just wow!
What an amazing piece of beautiful art!

Looks like an illustration from a book Paul, incredible shot, love the light, you have such a great eye for composition and the treatment again, wow! In awe once again!

Wow this is absolutely amazing. Great capture Paul, love it!

This is stunningly beautiful, Paul – it looks like I image Arrakis, from Frank herbert’s “Dune“would look. Wonderful fantasy feel to it and if you hadn’t said this was an actual place, Iwould have thought it was an extremely fine painting. You’ve captured the wonderful light, colours and mistiness so well – was it taken at sunrise or sunset?

Awesome work Paul, so rich in color and detail, quite an amazing place.

Magnificent, beautiful.

How exquisite!! quite an extraordinary shot!! Love it!!

Wonderful!

Fabulous nothing else to be said, it’s just fabulous

Love ‘N’ Laughter Kriss

Masterful use of light and dark Paul! “Wow” scratches the surface, the golden light is striking against the ominous stormy sky. It has the archtectural qualities of one of Ian Miller’s fantasy art citadels in the painterly finish you have given it – truly awesome piece of art!

I am stunned at this one Paul. Such an unreal feel to this and yet feels like you can walk right into the photo. Amazing work!

agreed – what a place!
in love with this one.

How incredible!! What an amazing place with so many interesting details beautifully highlighted through your superb and skillful processing. Stunning work!!

Wow, yeah, what a place…..Wonderful shot too!

Wow what a view and what a lookout! Not sure I could sit at those chairs!
Despite the apparent age, this image has a very futuristic style and truly looks like it could belong on another planet! Amazing color and detail!

Is this real ? looks like a painting and out of this world

This is the most amazing sight I’ve ever seen! Can’t stop looking! Your images from India caught my eye when I first joined, 2 years ago, but THIS!!! Why have you kept it from us all this time? Magnificent!

Hard to believe this is real! What a magical place! You captured it with such talent… Simply wonderful!

BRILLIANT WORK!!!!!!!!!!!

you have somehow managed to make this magical place even more beautiful than seeing it for real – stunning work!

Like a cross between a remarkable stage set and a phantasmagorical painting. Does anyone else outside of the locals know of this strange place other than you Paul? Never seen anything like it This is pure magic Paul! Wow!

Wonderful capture!!

What a moment so like a dream.. A true capture of life unlike what it seems… The best for sure Paul…
Chuck..

The colours and treatment is amazing, this is a very interesting picture

AWESOME!

Paul this is absolutely extraordinary!!!!!! OOOOO … I have goosebumps just looking at this incredibly magnificent image!!!!!!!!! “WOW” just doesn’t seem to do it … thank you so much for sharing this beauty!!!!! If I could fave it twice, I WOULD!!!!

Wow Paul, barely recognized the planet, much less the country… even less the town!
I love the way you bring us to amazing places and then blow our minds once you get us there.
Amazing work Paul !!

Paul, sorry to be so late joining the long line of admirers of this magnificent work. Strangely, it was your title that drew me in more than the thumbnail presentation. I thought I would have little to say that hasn’t already been said, as it is surreal and dreamy, as well as deep, well lighted, and wonderfully composed. But I did notice that not a one has mentioned the slight haze that seems to be hanging in the upper right corner, slightly dulling the color of those, for the sake of a better word, “parapets.” Speaking of the colors, they are so rich, and despite everything being so close in color, the tone variation is astounding. I can’t say this is better than any of your other fine images, but I’ll definitely have to include this among my favorites. I am sure I’ll want to look at it again.

What a beautiful and stunning image, I love the detail and use of golden colours. A real master piece.

Like something out of a fantasy.

A photograph? It looks like the cover of a science fantasy novel! This is absolutely a wonderful capture!

Great picture of its time my friend!

This is beyond stunning, magical, masterful, fascinating and gorgeously surreal Paul!!!! I can hardly tear my eyes away to comment!!! The soft and deep golden light filtering & layering thru the unbelievable structures, the stormy greys of the sky and your eye and timing in capturing her in this perfect moment make this an absolute masterpiece.
You have the ability to consistently (as in always!) bring out the magic and depth unique to the subject and content of your images. But here, omigod!!!
I have been looking forward to seeing more from your time in India, but this is beyond the beyond Paul Vanzella ;)
Once again, my mind is suitably blown.
A STUNNING & GORGEOUS work of TIMELESS ART!!! wow

Wow this is an amazing work. I hoped to get this level of atmosphere in my own work, one day I will. :) Cheers

BRILLIANT/now my 2nd most favourite photograph

The stories that could be told… This is an amazing scene, sir. Amazingly well seen, too.

Fantastisch!!!!!

this is an epic movie in one frame….love this babe

What a mysterious place! So well done.

What a fabulous place and you caught the golden tones and wonderful textures superbly. Nice one mate …

Incredible work.

This is awesome Paul. Probably one one of the most beautiful I have seen here. Excellent !!!

Incredible Paul, I think I was here in a dream, only this is so much more beautiful than the dream.

hard to add anything new to the above… but your genius in capturing the light shines through once again…. love how it rains down upon the female figure…... brilliant shooting paul…........b

really beautiful, Paul…the light is wonderful!

This is AWESOME!!!! LOVE IT!

the light in this is gorgeous,,, beautiful shot Paul… really love that person standing out on the balcony,,gives it a real sense of perspective,,,, ps,, want to see a pic of you playing cricket!! :))

Beautiful

WOW, it’s fabulous…one could almost step straight into it!! :-)

Beautiful image I just love the warm tones and texture, outstanding love it !

Lovely work.

It looks like a city of gold, really heavenly Paul :)

Sensational capture and beauty, Paul. When were you in India? Well done. An instant fave.

The thoughtful framing and delicate chiaroscuro has produced an enchanting and phantasmagoric image Paul. I must return there one day.

totally surreal, Paul! great light! xoxox

Stunning image the lighting is just perfect!!

This is amazing! Nice work.

Wow. Mind blowingly fabulous.

Excellent capture.

Debra

Well you’ve done it again Paul…superb rich colour. A stunning image!

excellent Paul!

gorgeous, incredible image. like something out of a dream or a story or a memory..

soooo amazing!!

holy Karma.. a dream..I was there.. you make this magnificent as the day it was built..

wonderful hues of gold… great place

Wow..What a beauty…Incredible shot..

This is magical.

incredibly magical…

What a brilliant work, Paul!

Outstanding work, well done,

OMG Paul this is divine!! One of your best and most beautiful works ever imo…...that lighting is superb and the view is one of the most incredible I have ever seen and then there’s the amazing post work….....Astounding image in every way!!

That is so stunning Paul!!!

Paul this is brilliant what a great place, as has been said it’s like a film set.

instant fav

Amazing colors … gorgeous image

nice work

Just amazing what you did here – like you invented the whole scenario and brought it to life with life and deep nuance – mind blowing and brilliant

brilliant

Spectacular!

wow, what a place indeed!
It looks fictitious.

excellent picture, i like it very much !!!!

This is fabulous paul. Instant fave
: ))
x

Wow! So much to see….so much to say….I will do it in one word….Magnificant!

wonderful!

so good!!!

wow this is so amazing!!!!

Beautiful shot Paul. I was there many moons ago.. in fact I ran out of cash in Rajasthan and had to sell my Rollei SLR to get home. It stirs up some fantastic memories. Ta.

Excellent image well done
Cheers
Rock

absolutely beautiful… i love it!

Brilliant image. :-)

Great depth – really draws me in.

great

really love this photograph paul – a real masterwork. the composition, the light, colour, scene… all utterly flawless. wonderful work.

how marvelous!

Paul, this is a masterpiece!

Simply amazing!!!

WOW – and WOW, amazing scene!!!!!!!!!!!!

so wonderful..so beautiful..well done!

brilliant

Amazing golden image!

stunning paul, namaste, i just had 5 years in dear mother india, well caught, tim

An amazing mismatch of architecture which looks extremely precarious in its construction

it has all been said dido.

Tony…..this is TRULY not only Breathtaking but a MASTERPIECE …wow..
I am soooooooooo blown away by this….LOVE LOVE your eye :)) wow!

a magnificent scene Paul, and break from your traditional style though still retaining that unique Vanzella touch!

Amazing image Paul…like a scene from a movie;)

great lighting… magical

Oh, this is so beautiful! Wonderful, Paul…

Love this composition. Color, tone and light are very well done.

this is real??! OMG what an amazing place, and so beautifully captured. (ashamed to say, that after a couple glasses of vino, it took me a moment to find the black chairs.) lol

fabulous image and work!

A definate wow! Totally gorgeous.

You know I could go on and on about this one, just know it’s now my new FAV …brilliant Paul !!

It is enchanting Paul, and so beautiful.

This is beautiful!

Marvelous and magical – Exceptional! – Kent

I am so in awe of this, Paul. GASP…......!

I was in Jaisalmer many years ago, Paul. This brings back wonderful memories of that unique town that just seems to have grown in the middle of the desert and is so much a part of it. Wonderful image, thank you.

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Paul, this completely blows my lid off !!!! Like a piece of fantasy art on steroids!!
and to think this is a photographic image….. Staggeringly good work mate, you have excelled yourself, I’m spitting sawdust…..........

most impressive image. so much to take in. its like one of those seek and find puzzles. gorgeous light process. i’m sure the bigger this gets, the better it looks. cheers!

extraordinary work of art!

Magnificent shot Paul… has a wonderful cinematic feeling.

What a sight!!! Absolutely breathtaking!

ok OK!!! you are doing this too often! lol I mean really – and than you start a description with When I wasn’t playing cricket with the locals O my – there is a novel (Lawrence Darrell style like) in addition to this rich sunny-worm festival of tones from a blue gray and gamma of yellow, ...hint of green nailed it for good.
this gorgeous photo is in C minor

where were you?? love this paul!—chappel

Absolute perfection… THANK YOU!!!!

I thought it was a painting.

Awesome image :)

Fabulous work!

Unbelievably beautiful. I got such a strange feeling of dejavu looking at this image.

This would have to be among one of my most favourite images produced by any artist.

fabulous! I will be in Jaisalmer the first 2 wks of December and simply cannot wait!

What a beautiul image and place!
-Bobbi

Jaisalmer is one of my fav city in India and i just saw this image clicked and processed by you and all i can say is—-WOW WOW and WOW:)

Surreal & so real!

So dreamy. I love it.

Majestic !

Brilliant

Superb!!