Fear Of Flying

Jo O'Brien, about 1 year ago

this is exceptional. every peice you do is different and yet you have such a personalised style. I’m a huge fan

kathleen, about 1 year ago

compelling, and disturbing. I love the hues you find paul and the light!

Chris White, about 1 year ago

The imagery here and the fragmentation are just fantastic, permeated with anxiety.

Delete me really, about 1 year ago

10

kookylane, about 1 year ago

cant help staring at the nude body lying on the ground, quite disturbing. Fantastic Paul! This looks like a cover for a book, v nice!

Steve Axford, about 1 year ago

Why do I keep looking for the Teddy Bear? Great idea and I like the striped effect.

meanderthal, about 1 year ago

this is awesome….. running out the door… will comment again!!

Raul Brzic, about 1 year ago

Great image, whole story is in it.
Where did you find this plane parts?

Paul Louis Vil..., about 1 year ago

Fantastic work Paul. As Jo mentioned you do have a style that’s “signature” even though this is a step to the left your umimitable styling and class shines through.

Ben Rowe, about 1 year ago

This is terrific Paul – you’ve really captured the eeriness here.

Thanks for all of your comments too :)

Christopher Ho..., about 1 year ago

Seriously awesome piece here. Right on target. I especially like the overall design of the image with the separate pieces.

Lost Lost, about 1 year ago

Love it. True to your style. Love the body on the left!

Lindsay Blamey, about 1 year ago

O.M.G. – What a piece of fantastic art! It is thought provoking and challenging… It offers so much more than just a brilliantly crafted piece. So many elements yet so well controlled and designed. Love the type and the layout.. From the thumbnail I thought the vertical bars were created from the boarding lounge windows looking out to the runway. They also create a very tense/anxious mood which I imagine would be part of the fear. The image and treatment is awesome… I feel almost like a shouldn’t be seeing what I’m seeing (like driving past a car crash)... Truly outstanding and inspiring piece!!

Alexander Gitlits, about 1 year ago

Love it!

victor, about 1 year ago

GULP !

sweet, about 1 year ago

Well done, this is a beautiful image, great one for a band to pick up for a unique cd cover…

How much post is involved and only if you are willing to tell of course???

Leviathan, about 1 year ago

Mate this is so Great!
i love the color.

Its a whole story! Cant wait for more!

Andrew Bosman, about 1 year ago

Great stuff again Paul!

Shanina Conway, about 1 year ago

Fear of flying..the vertical slashes make me feel I’m looking out a window …and the body is just the perfect touch…great work Paul,
who was she, how did it happen,why is she nude, ?..So many questions…;)

Amanda J Slack..., about 1 year ago

Well done. Love it.

wellman, about 1 year ago

I will no doubt contemplate this image and meaning as I board a flight tomorrow morning for Adelaide – impeccable timing as this was the 1st image to appear whilst waiting for boarding pass to print….hey, if anything should happen, at least I’ll go down w/ 1 hell of an image fresh in my mind.

Your work is 1 hell of a treat!

Lee Burgess, about 1 year ago

This is brilliant! I just love your style Paul!

Michael Alesich, about 1 year ago

I think I like it more as the the graduation is flowing from the top. I can feel the paranoia.

How did you manage to get to see a landing gear just sitting like that? its not exactly easy to find.

Deborah Hally, about 1 year ago

Hate flying..love this image, wonderfully set up and as with all your work has a sort of dream feel (or in this case nightmare!)

Mel Brackstone, about 1 year ago

• - shudder – *

Paul Vanzella, about 1 year ago

WOW – thanks for your great comments, really appreciate it! Great to get such a great vibe from everyone… As previously mention to David D… here’s a bit of a rationale / background to the image:

Thanks for commenting on “Fear of Flying”… happy to share… I shot the landscape and figure in Italy, the aeroplane door, wheels and junk in California just last month or so… I’ve been thinking of creating a narrative impact piece with the discarded plane wreckage pic for awhile, and just worked in Photoshop to compile the image. I had to strike the right flavour with colour and tone and also wanted to give the image an edge, or context if you will, thusly created the layout design with type and vertical white lines, to give it the feeling of an almost contextual, recordable event. Also the lines help create these visual passages into the image, to explore and delve into it more… the figure on the left adds that slightly surreal and dreamlike context… was it thrown from the plane, is it sleeping, is it a mannequin…. Hope that helps – and thanks for liking the work!

shanghaiwu, about 1 year ago

this caught my eye…..tomorrow i fly…..........!

Thomas Trebowicz, about 1 year ago

loving the stripes,like nothing ive seen before.brilliant image!

Mel Brackstone, about 1 year ago

What an amazing influence you have with your work….its going to make me think before flying again….still makes me shudder!

Heather Meadows, about 1 year ago

this is one of my favs right now – great work, love the color choice as well :)

Jessica Tremp, about 1 year ago

Paul, i especially love the woman lying on the ground to the left of the picture, it balances it out perfectly…great concept

Sharon Hammond, about 1 year ago

I love your work…v inspiring

Ange, about 1 year ago

As usual…absolutely fantastic work Paul!

davoid, about 1 year ago

Very polished piece of work. Impressive.

Jem Selig, about 1 year ago

yes yes… i’m impressed.

Graeme Pettit ..., about 1 year ago

Looking at the icon, it looked like an album cover for an LP (remember them?). Having seen it full, I still think it would be a great one….certainly draw my eye if I spotted it on a CD rack.
Great image, wonderful execution – but thanks pal – gotta fly overseas again shortly – makes me want to swim instead! ;-)
Very effective.

Damian, about 1 year ago

Awesome image and design, love the look of it!

Christopher Mi..., about 1 year ago

Very cool

ohbenbridges, about 1 year ago

I like this design quite a bit.

Flamejob, about 1 year ago

This is very atmospheric Paul – for some reason it reminds me of an album cover.

marieancolie, about 1 year ago

I have looked at this composition several times, and I have always the same feeling..
dreams, fears, nightmares and real life together…
beautiful for book cover or science-fiction video
Love it anyway

Christiaan, about 1 year ago

Wow, very interesting! Great job on the photoshopping Paul! Respect! :)

Adrian Rachele, about 1 year ago

Usual brilliance Paul.

Stephen Mitchell, about 1 year ago

I just like the use of vertical splitters, make each section a photograph in itself. Great concept. And I like the illusion that it’s a record-cover or similar…

Michael Douglass, about 1 year ago

Am at work starving for something of substance so visiting your work, this one’s a bit different for you with the graphic design elements added, is that the same area you’ve shot some other photos? Like how the vertical line binds the text to the image, the shapes created by the manequin and wreckage led me around the image in a circularly motion, wreckage, text, body, wreckage. Nice work.
My fear of flying started when I saw Flying High, ‘We better get them to a hospital fast’. ‘What is it doctor’? ‘It’s a large building with patients but that’s not important right now’.

Paul Vanzella, about 1 year ago

BRILLIANT KALB! Love it! (and thanks for the appreciation of this image)

Terry Cooper, about 1 year ago

This is an amazing piece of digitally mastered photography and editing.

Mugsy, about 1 year ago

Excellent artwork! And layout! Very impressive

Kim Shillington, about 1 year ago

I was at work yesterday showing some friends how much I adore your work and this one in particular. You have been adding some crazy awesome stuff since I went away and I have been wanting to come in and drool. This piece is just amazing. So interesting to see you going more graphic and adding those extra elements to the image, so well thought out and executed Paul. The tones are this series are delicious and like you said to me also, your art direction is wonderful. You certainly have a film based mind also and really know how to put use of the subjects at hand.

Paul Vanzella, about 1 year ago

WOW – great comment Kim – thank you so much… you know I’m a huge fan and this means alot… So happy!

Mel Brackstone, 10 months ago

Tough choice you give us all, Paul, but I bought a card of this….looking forward to seeing it in the flesh, as it were!! India 2 next! LOL

Paul Vanzella, 10 months ago

Wow – thanks Mel, you know I appreciate your support so much, I have one of this card as well… and is a personal favourite, it comes up the best on a white background… Thanks for making so many comments and also for actually buying this. Big thanks!

Mel Brackstone, 10 months ago

Glad you said it comes up best on white, that’s what I chose….can’t wait!

Leigh Ann Pobiak, 10 months ago

love your work! saw your site as well.. beautiful stuff!! very talented :-D

Mel Brackstone, 10 months ago

Got my card today!!! Looks great :) Thanks Paul!!!

Dani Di Cesare, 10 months ago

Love the panels.. works really well

star1, 10 months ago

Your work is fascinating. Some imagery that i wish i could have taken. Unless you’re exposing a trade secret, how do you get that film across your work?
Starlen

Douzy, 10 months ago

Very powerful image, LOVE the stripes, really makes the pic stand out.

studiofascino, 10 months ago

just perfect!!!!

doppelganger, 9 months ago

I adore your mind.

Paul Tait, 9 months ago

Fabulous – i could see this as a CD cover!

Deri Dority, 9 months ago

This is way good!!! Brilliant. I am going to Cancun in 2 weeks and this really caught my eye. (I wonder if I can drive there).

missalyshachri..., 9 months ago

well thank you for your nice comments:)
im an amateur photographer because im quite young so its encouraging to hear nice things like that.
but on to your pictures and how exqusite they are!
very nice work, well done

Peter Coleman, 9 months ago

Nice work, chaotic and calm straight from a dream.

collectiveone, 8 months ago

Indeed fear is grounding. Great image and excellent words!

Alyson Pearson, 6 months ago

wow this is such a great piece.

imageworld, 5 months ago

Hi paul, having flown for the Air Force over here the fear of flying is a real one, though we would tell you that it is safer than driving a car on the roads! this is a graphic image of when things go wrong up there it is greater than your average car prang, do lot’s of flying & the fear goes away, well composed image & a great picture will favourite this 1

Rod Adams, 4 months ago

great work as usual!!!!!

legi0n, 4 months ago

Nice! The body is the icing on the cake. I love your treatment, too!

LoveMy7Cs, 4 months ago

I hate to fly.
Did not need to see this.

The beautiful clean body…hmmmm
Also the feet are resting on the toes, kinda messes with my mind.

Ian James, 3 months ago

Brilliant image where on earth did you go to photograph plane wreckage like that. Super graphical piece I just love the tones and the concept.

shawhouse, 3 months ago

interesting concept.

Rosina Lamberti, 3 months ago

Well done. Love it.

James Stevens, 3 months ago

this is cool! when’s the album out?.... (LOL)...

paulevelin, 3 months ago

just sitting here and watching…I am a big fan

Paul Hamilton, 3 months ago

love this – beautifully presented – extremely effective

Zaldy Infante, 3 months ago

brilliant piece.. love the breakup of the image! a dissection of fear.. and nutting it out one step at a time. great rhythm and visual beat!

Larasolnishko, 3 months ago

The stripes allowed me feel that I still separated from the death, that I am living in different dimention that some one who have that acsedent. Thank you for keeping me safe Paul.

Paul Vanzella in reply to Larasolnishko’s comment, 3 months ago

very insightful comments – appreciate you stopping by….

Mark Richards, 3 months ago

I love the vertical lines emphasing the ‘break-up’ of the aircraft and on that point the life that was within. Nice composure!

Simon Mears, 3 months ago

this is something out of the blue.. really special project – hugely creative and expertly composed.. it gives me more ideas too. thanks!

nodrogart, 3 months ago

Paul, you know I don’t add many images as a Fav, but wow, this is an amazing piece of work. what I want to know is, where did you find the undercarriage from?
it is a wonderful effect, and it looks like you spent quite a while on the ‘tweaks’

Carmelh, 2 months ago

Blown away by your artistic talant Paul…..your images are such a treat to the eyes and senses.

RSart, 2 months ago

I’ve painted something similar ones.. – the body. it works well as a book cover.. or even a film poster. way too good

Christopher Bi..., about 1 month ago

i find this a really interesting and exciting composition