The Journal

Essays, field notes.

Letters from the director on light, restraint, and the slow craft of weddings.

On Light, & Why We Wait For It

An essay on patience, on shooting at 5:42 instead of 5:40, on the cost of impatience in cinematography.

Why we still shoot on lenses that are older than most of our crew.

A diary entry from a destination wedding shot at Villa del Balbianello.

The case against scale, written by the person who has the most to lose by writing it.