Road Trip, Part 4

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Shooting from the hip^H^H^Hcar

After two days of pretty intense conferencegoing, I spent a bit of time sorting out some of the photos from the drive to Albuquerque. They aren't in any particular sequence, but here they are. All of these were taken with my tiny little Panasonic/Leica/Lumix/whatever DMC-FX07, hand held. The outdoor images were taken from a moving car, mostly through the windscreen. I have to say, I am extremely impressed with the image stabilisation in this thing -- no way should I have ended up with results like these.

Truth or Consequences

This is definitely my favourite image from the trip so far, despite being a hand-held grab shot.

Snow in the desert

I arrived in Albuquerque, NM a little after sunset on Tuesday. It was extremely cold, but otherwise clear and dry when I arrived. This is the scene from my hotel room window the following morning. The weather conditions caused the locals a lot of trouble -- apparently, this amount of snow is extremely rare here.

Driving through Joshua Tree National Park

I was driving slowly, holding the camera out of the window with one hand here. I will put up the medium format images from Joshua Tree NP most likely after I get back to Mountain View -- I think there may be a couple of reasonably nice ones.

John & Heidi, my friends from Phoenix, AZ

Many thanks are due to John & Heidi for putting me up on Monday night at short notice when my travel plans went, er, a bit south.