Fear Of Flying

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

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

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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!

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

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

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

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.

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

Thanks for all of your comments too :)

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

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

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!!

Love it!

GULP !

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???

Mate this is so Great!
i love the color.

Its a whole story! Cant wait for more!

Great stuff again Paul!

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…;)

Well done. Love it.

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!

This is brilliant! I just love your style Paul!

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.

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!)

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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!

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

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

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

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

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

I love your work…v inspiring

As usual…absolutely fantastic work Paul!

Very polished piece of work. Impressive.

yes yes… i’m impressed.

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.

Awesome image and design, love the look of it!

Very cool

I like this design quite a bit.

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

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

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

Usual brilliance Paul.

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…

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’.

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

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

Excellent artwork! And layout! Very impressive

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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

Love the panels.. works really well

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

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

just perfect!!!!

I adore your mind.

Fabulous – i could see this as a CD cover!

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).

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

Nice work, chaotic and calm straight from a dream.

Indeed fear is grounding. Great image and excellent words!

wow this is such a great piece.

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

great work as usual!!!!!

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

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.

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.

interesting concept.

Well done. Love it.

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

just sitting here and watching…I am a big fan

love this – beautifully presented – extremely effective

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!

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.

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

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

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’

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

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

i find this a really interesting and exciting composition

love this image to 10 lil bits.
the graphic and painterly aspects of it are astounding not to mention the colours and tones. ;-) xox

Whoa…...this is great…once again love your work Paul

Oh…very very interesting…Great Concet with Great Result!!! :)

Great composition, lovely moody chaotic landscape!

Wow, this is fabulous Paul! I fly weekly with my job and i hate every second of it. Not on the outside, but on the inside. This shot brings to the forefront everyones deep-seeded fear of being in an air crash, and with that the feelings of a total lack of control over their destiny and lives. It might make a good office xmas gift, haha! Awesome work!!!

excellent work

hmmnn.. i like this pic very much : )

why have i not see this before?
Has my perspective changed?
Was i looking from the wrong angle?
Did i glance past?
Are we there yet?

Beautifully done!

Once again I’m drawn to this….the image, the graphic elements, the legs….just can’t get enough….