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.

Pic of the Day #468

December 31, 2007

We spent, as I may have previously mentioned, several hours at the 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 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 .

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.

Where was this taken?