Yesterday’s lesson in umbrella-twirling motion blur:
I asked the lovely Erin to pose with her umbrella and twirl it so I could get the motion blur. I was trying to get the shutter speed down low enough for the blur and aperture high enough to expose her face properly, but I hadn’t manually set my ISO [...]

Another post on the fly…
My 2GB memory card saw some major action today: cows, pigs, turkeys, snails, ponds, flowers, a cemetery, scantily clad bodies, a helicopter, wings, crowd, a pug-beagle dog, transvestites, and all manner of things in between. Between last night and today (shooting from 9am to about 7pm), I took about half the [...]

I shot an engagement session on Saturday night, and while I was waiting for my couple to arrive, I observed another photo shoot going on right in front of me — a wedding that probably took place at St. James’ Cathedral.
Wedding season is in full summer swing!
The engagement session went really well, I think. I [...]

It’s probably a good day to leave Toronto — all this humidity turned into summer downpour!
I saw Ruth, from Ireland, off at the train station this morning. I hosted Ruth for two days, and she’s making her way west to Vancouver and all around the U.S. by rail. She’s a lovely girl, I hope to [...]

Now that Germany’s in the final on Sunday against Spain, I can only imagine the mania that’s been building since I left on Monday.
Last Friday, the night before the wedding, there was a barbecue for all the guests who’d arrived at the farm in Wolterdingen. Of course, someone found a way to get a TV [...]

A bunch of people are flying to Cuba so we had a bit of a Cuban-themed evening at the Batcave for them to get a taste of the country beforehand. We watched “Buena Vista Social Club”, drank sangria that I’d been marinating in the afternoon, and ate tapas that Maria whipped up in her kitchen. [...]

I am slowly, ever so slowly, sorting through my photos of this most recent trip. I also have photos to sort through from Chicago (June 6-8), and NY/NJ/PA (May 29 - Jun 2). Also, for those with the password, my upcoming trip details can be found in the Where page. If I didn’t have this [...]

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.
14 months in the making, 42 countries, and a cast of thousands. About Matt.

I had some interesting accommodation on this trip, including a little cabin in Norway and sleeping on a bed of hay in a stable in Germany (”heuhotel”). I’m still picking out bits of hay from my stuff!
All up, it was:

3 nights on 2 couches (Oslo, Hamburg)
2 mattresses on 2 floors (Oslo)
3 bunk beds (Norway: [...]

RIP George Carlin
May 12, 1967 - June 22, 2008