Autumn in Louisville, 2012. We don’t see colors like these in Austin.
Laura, Lee and Alexa
FORTY PANES Director Laura Dunn and Director of Photography Lee Daniel outside a poison ivy covered tobacco barn. Have to say, the ARRI Alexa exceeds our highest expectations. What a camera. Cannot wait for next year’s release of ARRI’s documentary-style version, the Amira.
Unharvested Tobacco
Henry County Tobacco field days before harvest.
Laura's Desktop
Scenes from Laura’s desktop.
Farm Auction
Shooting outside of a Kentucky farm being sold at auction.
Light Shafts
Shafts of light breaking through the slits of a Henry County tobacco barn
Panorama inside a Tobacco Barn
La Grange, Kentucky... Shades of Chris Nolan's INCEPTION.
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 Kentucky Pasture Panorama
Marla Quintana
The Unforeseen (Artwork that Never Was)
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.
Hanging Tobacco
Kentucky horse pastures (Panorama)
Panoramic iPhone photo of Kentucky horse pastures.
Shooting unharvested Kentucky tobacco fields with the amazing Arri Alexa Camera
Shooting unharvested Kentucky tobacco fields with the amazing Arri Alexa HD Camera.
Justin Hennard captures sound in a Kentucky soybean field for FORTY PANES
Justin Hennard captures sound in a Kentucky soybean field for FORTY PANES (Now in production.)
Forty Panes - Now In Production
FORTY PANES
Now in production.