Roger Deakins is my photography hero after seeing The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. His photography for No Country for Old Men was spectacular and amazing too.

The use of light! Damn you! It’s overwhelming how beautiful Jesse James was.

I can’t even get around crafting such perfect images. It’s thrilling and depressing at the same time. The infinitude of possibilities in that one moment. The interplay of light and dark and the subconscious emotional connection forged through their play. Having no idea how to craft any of that.

It’s odd that it’s so rare to see something so amazingly perfect. You don’t get that much in plain old life which is a shame really. Some people claim that everything is rare and beautiful but I think they’re just taking the good drugs and leaving the rest of us to wonder who they know.

Because I spend a whole lot of time in the real world and I’ve only once or twice seen anything as amazing as the simple shots of shadows in a house used underneath the narration in Jesse James.