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Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.
I was using this originally to illustrate the earlier post on HD video... but frankly it wasn't a great spot for that. I still love this video, and the back story.

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

I just got back from 10 days driving around Andalucia, Spain - Seville, Granada, Marbella and Cordoba (plus a little Gibraltar) - over 1200 miles on the rental car. Aside from it being a little unseasonably cold, it was a great time.

This is a rendering, via Google Earth, of the track I drove up Mt. Haleakala in Maui earlier this year. So far, I've been absolutely impressed with the Garmin GPSMAP 60csx, and having the ability to export the data from a drive or hike out to Google Earth is a great bonus when you get home. I've just added the new road and city data to the Garmin (I was able to fit about 90% of the data for the entire United States onto the 1 GB mini-SD card installed in the unit -- sorry, Idaho and Iowa -- and being able to carry all of the US and Canada would only require the puchase of another $40 memory card.) There's a few more renderings up on Flickr -- I also intend to post the drive to Hana some time soon.

It's been around a while, but I've finally gotten around to creating an Indy Jr. map of my recent travel. (It's a work in progress.)

Pohutu Geyser and its hot pools, Te Whakarewarewa Thermal Valley, Rotorua, NZ
(Handheld, D70 with kit lens at 18mm)

To kick off the summer, we did some camping up in the Adirondack Park (upstate New York) on an island at Indian Lake, about four and a half hours from the city. Beautiful, but at times it was a bit chilly - they are still issuing frost warnings in that part of the country. Two days of strong winds, and then a final dead calm morning fogged in completely.

Until things are back to normal, here's one of my photos from the recent trip to Puerto Rico.

Last night I posted a gallery of 77 photos from Shanghai, taken during my trip there last week. Shanghai has some of the most amazing skyscrapers around, since they were mostly all built during the last 5-10 years. Also, since it's not on an island like Hong Kong (or Manhattan) there's more space between buildings, allowing each to stand out on its own.

New in the gallery: if you click on the "Properties" link in each window, you'll be able to see the camera settings and exact time when it was taken.

Tomorrow I have to start the 20+ hour trip from Shanghai back to New York City... amazing that I'll travel halfway around the globe in less than a day... even more amazing that the two cities are so similar. I'll have 100-odd photos to put online when I arrive home, more than I've even taken in a week (thank god for digital cameras, they pay for themselves in the cost saved on developing and prints alone.) Lots to post this week!

Yesterday we visited the Temple of the Town Gods in old Shanghai. I took tons of pictures and also a great deal of video, but uploading the 1600x1200 pictures from China is kinda painful. I'll have to post the rest when we get back this weekend.