Voyage

When travel meets craft, light takes journey. The first soft light of dawn Heralds the spark of an idea As big and bright as the world. On this distant summit A rhythm of patient footprints. Every second counts towards a lifetime’s study. A blank sphere pendant To be garbed by tectonic plates Longitude and latitude. Pathways of ink and paper Water unfolds across the whole With finite precision. To weave horizons and knit continents As if by accident, exactly formed. Suspended in wonder Kin to the passage of time A master on its axis turns. Picked out in perfect order Flowing air and ocean vastness A thousand cities carefully rendered. Mountain stillness and river threads Celestial patterns writ large in stars. This is a new perspective on the skin of our earth Preserved in balance to spin eternal Caught to consider its fragile surface. We become passengers and stewards Witnesses to passing light That in time gives way to shadow. But never turns its face from day to night. Director | Sim Warren DOP | Jim Petersen 1st AC | Jerome King Sound Mix | James Locke-hart Words | Dan Crockett VO | Chris Lake Producers | Matt Buck & Corinne Brooking Made for Conde Nast Traveller. There are some 35mm BTS images by the very talented Jerome King that can be viewed on my website: http://www.simwarren.com