the swollen-eye shot

Hi Reader You know that feeling. The one where you sit down to work and something in you says not today. Not like this. Wait until you feel more ready. I want to tell you about a shot. It is David Attenborough in the Grand Canyon. 1979. You can barely see his face. His eyes are almost swollen shut. He is allergic to the dust from the donkeys his crew rode down. It is the climactic moment of the most important series of his career, and it is filmed from so far away you cannot make him out....