Sadness

Holy crap this is brilliant with the color and the compostion.
The curtains all opened differently My God this is fantastic Paul

very nice shot Paul. I love the simplicity of the composition. Great shot.

love the contrast between the orange and the beige???

portrays the feeling of Sadness for sure…..........I can relate
thanks for sharing Paul.
xkc

A very emotive capture Paul and yes I felt really sorry for this person as they do look very sad. Love the expanse of the ship, the comp and the colours :)

OMG, I wish I could see how you see

wow u even got a colour rythmn happening, the line dissecting the pic i want to paint this in abtract!!

Stunning.

The rope is an excellent detail, just “makes” it for me for some reason.

WOW – this is spectacular… superb work, wonderful composition, right down to the 2 tiny holes – love the subtle reflection of the water…. this is right up there with ‘The Tourists’ as my fav Vanzella. Just brilliant!!!

Stark, simple and stunning great work.

beautiful explanation. Made me smile sadly at the truth behind it

love the square format and the cropping here !
red rulez !

Once again the image is unmistakeably yours Paul. The lighting has definately been touched by the hand of Vanzella.

The orange shirt, railings and cones are almost too much to be a co-incidence and the composition of it gives both depth in detail and an immense scale which must be difficult to achieve

this is an incredibly moving image – very poignant and thought-provoking. I love the simplicity of it too – the creams with this splash of orange and the lines too – i love the way the line cuts across the picture with the man left in isolation and above, behind teh windows we get a sense of another world going on without him. Like i say – very powerful – and just brilliant.

muted, spare and elegant. you have such a feel for this stylized rendering of the landscape. beautiful work.

Hallmark Vanzella!

This is stunning work Paul. You manage to observe / shoot / present these urban scenes with a magic trademark. Bravo on a gem

Wonderfully spare and expressive..

Another gem mate! The framing and colorisation are just hypnotising!
For me personally, the whole thing is tied in by that beautifully angled rope, I love it! :D

Mrs Vanzella stood there feeling slightly embarassed. How would she explain the appearance of the large grey ship in her family group picture, still it was going to be easier to explain if she managed to get it in focus. Would Paul let her near the camera again? and more importantly where had the kids gone, she had only said step back a bit as a joke!

Paul….what can I say….first of all: The way you framed this shot is SENSATIONAL.
The lines are a treat for the eyes. Your description fits so well….master piece.

great shot

Nice job Paul hard to get i bet well done

this is a mighty strong image

WOW!!!

Love this composition Paul,nicely done.

so very cool. the tone and comp are awesome !! I’d like to shoot like this….maybe someday!!!

BLOODY HELL VANZELLA! This is so freakin good it blows me away! Your framing is impeccable, the tones are sensitive to the subject matter presented… Those little splashes of colour add the right amount of tension to the scene and the portholes… too good for words! what more can i say? loving the Vanzella style as usual!

incredible

Great composition. Every thing’s perfectly placed. Even the rope. Love the diagonal white light-stream.

Paul, what you do with colors, form and composition is absolutely enormous. Congrats on yet another famous work of art!

super composition great image.

nice work Paul!!

Fabulous composition,so perfect and sensitive,impossible to make it better!

Excellent image Paul, the huge space to his right and above gives that feeling of insignificance you spoke of beautifully and the windows or port holes give the answer to the question Why is he so sad. excellent image well done.

wonderful, unique treatment. great control & color choices. Can always count on you for smarts and instinct, my friend… This is right up there with “The Tourists.” And it doesn’t get much better than that. Boy, this is fun to look at. A deceptively simple feast. bravo!

This is pure art. Absolutely love the composition…!

Wow! This is stunning Paul! I love the simplicity of this.. the muted tones contrasting with the orange is perfect… what a composition! I’m guessing that this is a cruise liner, which adds to the story of sadness.. a feeling that there is a sad farewell going on here.. Fantastic work!

great capture. you did well in capturing the sadness.

well done again Paul!

The colors combined with the space keep me looking.
What a story here.

wow..perfect

nice job

Impressive and sharp detailed composition, light and colors all work in beautiful harmony. Bravo!

Superb composition, beautiful light and tonal range!

Incredible shot along with the description, great colors as well.

subtle, poetic, sensitive
a very strong image

this is beutifull and sad. This took me WAY in . love it

Love the composition and colours, well done!

What intense graphic style. Heightened even by recent journeys into a darker realm.

Love this Paul!

Well Paul you’ve done it again. Another superb piece of art. I’m going to have to get a separate favourites page just for my PV images. I adore the vibrant orange in this one. Love it..

Paul, the depth of your work and insight is never ending.. this is awesome..

Great work.

Brilliant, i love the light and tones you consistently achieve. The emotion created in the body language of the lone figure is clear. another wonderful image.

How true. And what a wonderfully shot pic.

Anyone who has had to say g’bye to a loved one knows what this photograph emotes. I like it.

Good shot Paul

The “golden mean”?............................lovely piece well titled. Felt like this yesterday.

amazing picture, really gives a sense of saying goodbye.

Ahh classic Vanzella back again.
This is so enjoyable I’m going to have to retire to the bedroom with it.

This is so good….Those curtains freak me out. ;)

Wow, what an amazing and deeply moving shot. The sense of loneliness in a huge space is amazing. I love the colours of orange and yellow contrasting against the beige background. Such a modern shot but your title and description stir up emotion. Great work….

So simple, yet emotive and sad. Brilliant work once again Paul, love your simple use of colour here too.

great image… this is a theme i try and apprehend in my works… v powerful

wonderful image Paul.
I just love the framing and tone.

Love this shot Paul – to me it says sometimes we can’t see what’s in front of us as we are so wrapped up in our own world. The windows almost seem to be eyes looking down on this sad soul with sympathy….the limited use of colour and composition works very well.

Captured the moment very well Paul.

love the simplicity!

The simplicity of this is wonderful Paul.
You have an amazing abiltiy to invoke great emotion from your work.

Red for Effect. Very nice minimal composition.

fantastic comp love the contrast in size

fantastic….the scale & composition, the touches of colour, it all works so well!

Stunning image Paul!

how surreal – just perfect! lovin’ it.

This shot is Awesome, I like it a lot.
The perspective and composition is perfect.

Mick

I like the industrial setting and feel. The massive ship looks very cool.

I like the repetition of orange in this shot across from left to right.

The warmth communicates something happy to me.

I like the balance of motifs across the lower section of the image.

Super good! i really like this… good composition

Beautiful Paul… Iove how you framed this and with just a few standout elements… It’s a brilliant piece of art… the subtle textures and lines just top it off for me… in awe

well framed shot and the colours work extremely well…! Brilliant!

Very poignant & powerful image!

very nice perspective, nice colors and good compsition too. good work.

As soon as I saw this I thought it must have been one of yours… they are so distinctive.

fantastic photo :)

Sadness of the coming trip,or sadness that its over,or sadness that all three of a us are wearing the same color.!!!
Thoughtfully presented.

AV

this is awesome paul… similar to the tourists in tonality… love the scale

Wonderful emotive you displayed here in your photo. Simple, but yet very effective.

Excellent image.

nice…......the portholes look like lizard eyes…......if u have had enough rum that is lol….....like the concept ciao

Brilliantly composed and well spotted. Love it!

Brilliant photo! Really like to concept and the way this photo was arranged. Great work!

Moving in every way.
Thanks for sharing it..
:-)

It’s beautifully composed. The warm tones seem to go against the sadness, I think that creates an interesting counterpoint.

This is nice picture! clean and fresh image!

the colours turned out amazing! everything tied together, love the windows of this plane? ..very wonderful work!

This is a great image I have looked at all your work you have a great style…........but really liking this.

clap clap clap !!!!
:))
Shine on

brilliant….its all I can say really!

Funny. Well done Paul.

classic vanzella!!! gorgeous minimal photo-graphic-design

great shot and love the whole idea behind it. Its so true, when we are so fucused on the crap that can so often happen all round us, it is so hard to see the amazing goodness and grace!

the scale…the colour…composition…all spot on. Great abstraction

great !!!!!!! superior compo !!!

well done you can feel the sadness of the person, great colors as well

wow-great comp and interesting. I like this. I also like how those cones match his orange shirt!

very well spotted! Your images are a conversation Paul. Love them!

Superb! I love the way you looked and composed this work. very nice view point you have, Paul.
and also, very fine light metering and playing with the tones! the REDs just make the feelings!
Very well done!

wow i love how simple but powerful this image is. I love the orange!

Great image! So to the point…Love your use of colours in this also Paul…

I LIKE ALL your work,excellent creations of art. Fantaboulus.

Stunning work Paul. The rope really ads something to it.

I really like this image. Beautiful contrast.

reminds me of a jeffrey smart painting if your familar with his stuff.

excellent minimal

this is truly incredible paul, you have such an interesting perspective on art.
well done.

Great work Paul! This image is not only sad, but makes me feel so small!

Everything has been said!!!!!!
Wonderful image…..

Very reflective composition, all the elements are perfectly placed.

Fantastic image,love the colour and composition,perfect!

Classic Vanzella, up there with the tourists.

fantastic image! love that rope!

can c why so many comments very beautiful!!

Brilliant in every way. I don’t think I can add to what has been said already.
The composition is just right. One figure, two bollards, three spaces in railing, five portholes etc.
Cheer Neil

Simple and so effective! Great capture.

Simple compostion with a powerful message. Love it.

amazing composition!!!!

Great work!! love the solitude!!

Very nice.

wonderful composition!

Comment no. ???? Compliments. All yours mate. Add another to the list.

well cropped,amazing image:)

wonderful, everything fits!

Wow, this is one impressive composition.

This piece is stunning!

thats an incredible photo.

fabulous composition! excellent shot!

Pure art, and emotion on canvas (looks great printed up large on the easel!!)

Brilliant composition and treatment. Very cool

Perfect graphic shot. Great job !

The sadness is that so many of us don’t even see the glorious world that is there in front of our faces even when we are not sad – but I’m so unsad to have found a place such as RedBubble that aims to show those of us who may have forgotten where to look, the beauty in the world that is out there for all to see :o)

There are so many wonderful elements contained in this shot and yet it is totally pared down.
Lovely and poignant.

Stunning in its simplicity-maybe the bright spots of orange will infuse some warmth and hope into the cool beige sadness.

Stunning, Brilliant, Telling, Moody, Mind Blowing, Melancholic, Descriptive,Numerically Progressive and Perfect are just a very few adjectives and superlatives to describe this image, Paul !! It truly would be a “shrink’s” greatest asset for patients with this condition. Absolutely Awesome !!!!!!

Perfectly captured!! Brilliant :)K

Great composition, this is a great shot! :-)

i really feel this capture. its so real. brilliant

A masterful image,love everything about it!!!

Hi Paul. I normally don’t read the comments, but I love your photos and comments. They both show (the photos more powerfully of course) what an insightful person you are.

Beautiful shot, very expressive!

great image!

The colour palate in your images are fantastic. You have a really nice style.

wow, just great

very poetic words. if you are into picture books at all (im a english language/lit teacher), there is a grand picture book by the aussie picture book guru sean tan who pretty much portrays such visions through his/self made illustrations….please look at his book the red tree and you’ll be very inspired. not that you already lack inspiration. i love this shot.

I just knew this was yours, instantly! Another gorgeous image, Paul.

great just great

reminds me of my old job on cruise ships, lovely

Wonderful shot. Great composition. Love the punches of red against the gold background. Works really well with theme and title. Congrats on making homepage!

totally wild and a great visual

top notch work again.. just fantastic

Excellent composition and colour …

It seems i am just finding out how good you are , super work , you have a fan now Paul :-)
Al Neaimi

I love the photo and the treatment. There is this beautiful glow to all of your photos.

One image like I love : composition, color, intensity ! great one !

Like the piece of the large ship with the tiny insignificant (though brightly dressed) man.

incredible – love the graphic quality throughout your work, and this stands out in particular – great stuff!

you have to be out looking to find things like this to work with. I like the way the white is so full of “stuff” not just white and the orange bits and the rope. it all comes together

This is the first one of your works I opened. WoW! beautifully, elegantly done.

Very Jeffery Smart/Edward Hopper-ish. There’s a new book out with his unreleased paintings. I always thought Jeff Kennett was a fan of Jeffery Smart as many of the construction projects during his time in office ended up looking the work of that artist (such as the big yellow cheesestick)

awesome image; love the light & shadows~

Bugger I was just about to make the Jeffery Smart connection …. I have just found another redbubble art treasure.

i may have commented on this before, there are way too many comments for me to check to see if i have….but anyway…THIS IS FANTASTIC :)

This image has special memories for me, so it’s good to come back to view it again. I think I’m even starting to see a little how you do!

Wonderful work Paul, what a moving image. So beautifully composed.

Beautiful image Paul, not only is it an amazing composition but it takes me right into the mind and heart of the solitary figure

what a potfolio you have..such diversity…awsome concept

Perfect in every way ….

wow, what a cool edgy shot.

Very cool shot! Nice capture!

Thought provokeing image Paul, I like this alot…anna : )

very evocative composition

What a beautiful scene !
The rope, the thin beam of light and the orange little things speaks well to me !
Amazing minimalism

this is beautiful.

Stunning image….......

wonderful composition!

Powerful imagery! The ability you have to make small details work so well – against all the space – is top class.

Great shot Paul

Stunning simplicity.

Wonderful Paul! M:>

wonderfully evocative and balanced image

very excellent

amazing