I'm very excited to tell you all that I'm making the leap to HD in a few weeks.  I'm very blessed to work at a facility that has a budget, and trusts me enough to give me the go-ahead.  I realize that many of you may work as freelancers and I have the utmost respect for the fact that you must forge ahead and make your own way, and every piece of equipment you purchase comes at a cost.  But life has brought me in the place I am now.

I will be purchasing the Sony EX1 and a new Mac to support the workflow.  I work at a University and a large portion of what I shoot involves the high performance motorsports industry, which I love.  However, the creative artist in me has been yearning to shoot and edit some more artistic pieces with a distinct style.

I live in beatiful Northwestern Ohio, which has some of the most beautiful scenery in the country.  I have a concept in mind for a short film called "Storm" using a beautiful piece of music from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.  My goal is to tell a short story about a rain storm arriving at the farm my in-laws live at and how it effects the scenery, animals (of which there are many) and the overall mood of the day.  I have had a vision of what this would look like for a few months now, and my goal is to fulfill the vision in my head, which, as you know, is one of the most difficult things about our profession.  I very much believe when a person can take the grand vision in their head and successfully transfer it to video, they have reached a certain milestone in their expertise.  This short film will very much be a mood piece, and I look forward to posting it (eventually).