I’ve Moved!

November 20, 2008

So I’m sure that most people have noticed that the site has been offline for a few days. There’s a reason for that, which I will get to shortly. But first, let me just say this:

I AM NO LONGER BLOGGING HERE

In fact, I am blogging at a new site I have just finished setting up: kennethhynek.net. A full explanation for the reasons behind the move can be found here.

That said, this is not the end of . My wife has expressed interest in taking over blogging at this domain, and I am working to make sure that she gets set up here as soon as possible.

Also, my profound apologies for the modification to the site face; the move was not as seamless as I would have hoped, and many of the image files for this theme, and in the gallery, were corrupted during the course of their evacuation from my previous web host’s servers. Until such time as I have repaired them, I’ve put a clean-looking template in place of the previous one.

Update: for the purposes of further traffic shaping, new posts from kennethhynek.net will be excerpted below. Full articles can be read at the new blog.

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Pic of the Day #465

December 28, 2007

The Greeks make it pretty easy for people to tour the archaeological sites for which Athens is most famous. Twelve Euros buys you five tickets that you can use to gain entrance to a number of different historical sites, including the Parthenon. Grace loves the Parthenon — seriously, she is utterly fascinated by it, almost spellbound — and that was naturally the first place we went and saw on her day as tour guide. We also stayed at the Parthenon for several hours, which was also nice. In all honesty, it was fascinating for me to watch her admiring the Greek ruins, to see the intensity of her interest.

But the Parthenon is not today’s picture.

On the south face of the small mountain (or large rocky hill) atop which the Parthenon rests, two theatres can be found — the Theatre of Dionysos, which has not been restored, and the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, which has been fully restored and which is used for performances during the Athens Festival that runs from June until September. Wen walking up to the Parthenon, one gets a reasonable overhead view of the Odeon. And for something this impressive and massive, nothing less than a panoramic will do to capture a sufficient view and level of detail.

This picture comprises three or four shots stitched together in a line with Hugin (so the program didn’t really have to work that hard). Out of the camera, the exposures between each image were pretty evenly matched, and colour was good, so all I really had to worry about was cleaning up any chromatic aberrations and white balance issues.

Where was this taken?
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