Oddly, even though this blog has just begun (and it took me so many months to even get to this point), it is only the beginning.

As a DP, and as a filmmaker, I must make a confession. I acknowledge with a certain melancholy that I greatly miss that sweet feeling of completion. What I’m referring to are those moments when you can sit in an audience, sense the reaction of people against the events of the screen unfold, and laugh or be moved with them.

And it’s a feeling of completion, because you were in part responsible for why those people feel the way they do.

I’m only bringing this up now because as I progress through my career, I feel ever more distant from the audience, in that many completed works are making their way onto the internet rather than a movie theater, or I was shooting the next project while the last one plays at the local festival.

This, it seems, will be a pattern for a time to come now.