Lee Daniel and Justin Hennard inside a Henry County tobacco barn.
In La Grange, Kentucky, freight trains pass through downtown no more than 5 feet from parked cars. Twenty times a day. (Shades of Chris Nolan’s INCEPTION.)
Another panoramic shot in a Kentucky horse pasture.
The indispensable Marla Quintana on location in Port Royal, Kentucky.
Originally, our distributor sent us their ideas for DVD covers (bottom smaller images.) We didn’t love them. I had a series of posters envisioned that rhymingly juxtaposed Nature & Development. (Construction Crane vs Butterfly emerging from Cocoon [SHOWN], Spider Web vs Aerial of Subdivision Roads, etc.)
I sent the proposed concept (Big image) for the cover. But distributor firmly wanted a House on the cover. I understood the reasoning, the Subprime Crisis had just started. But I never really loved the Cancer Map vs the Swimming Kid image that became the official cover.
Laura snapped this picture of me, Lee and Justin while we were filming a crew hanging their tobacco in a barn.
Panoramic iPhone photo of Kentucky horse pastures.
Shooting unharvested Kentucky tobacco fields with the amazing Arri Alexa HD Camera.
Justin Hennard captures sound in a Kentucky soybean field for FORTY PANES (Now in production.)
FORTY PANES
Now in production.









