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:
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
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That said, this is not the end of Time Immortal. My wife Grace 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.
Pic of the Day #468
December 31, 2007
We spent, as I may have previously mentioned, several hours at the Parthenon site, just taking in the beauty of the structure. Grace absolutely loves the Parthenon, and is fascinated by it. I’m wasn’t quite as transfixed by it as she was, but I did take a number of photos…and even attempted a panoramic image. Put simply, I just didn’t have the ability, with my 17-85 mm lens, to take a wide-enough angle photo to capture the structure in all its majesty.
But I did have Hugin.
There are, if memory serves, a dozen images comprising this picture. The pronounced angle is not quite true-to-life, but is not destructive to the image; it’s the result of the particular stitching scheme I selected in Hugin, which maintained the straightest lines possible on the Parthenon itself (as opposed to other schemes which would have introduced unacceptable and ugly curvature to the old temple). And, to be fair, I wasn’t shooting the pictures from straight-on in front of the Parthenon itself.
As usual, the joins are seamless, and I think this image communicates quite nicely just how majestic, and how very larger-than-life, the Parthenon really is. It is such an impressive structure to behold, and humbling too.





