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 #471

January 3, 2008

I’ve been mentioning that Grace was just so taken with the , so I suppose it’s only to be expected that I’d capture a picture of her taking in the historical treasure.

Ahh, my beautiful wife. After a certain point, I couldn’t say I was sure what I found more fascinating — the 3,000 year old piece of history that had captured ’s attention, or Grace herself. (In retrospect, though, I think watching Grace brought me more enjoyment — which is saying something considering how very awesome the Parthenon actually is).

When I initially edited this photo, I cleaned up the white balance a bit and adjusted the colour saturation for skin tone (and of course did some de-fringing, given that I was still using the 17-85 mm lens). However, when I selected it for the Pic of the Day, I ran a couple more edits on it, this time in , using that program’s seemingly magical “Enhance” feature. To this day, I’m not entirely sure what blend of algorithims it runs to effect the changes to the image that it produces, but it usually works very well, which is all that really counts in the end. It brought out Grace’s hair a bit more, including the (natural) copper accenting in her hair. And it cleaned up the white balance a bit as well, more so than I had initially.

Where was this taken?
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