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 #472

January 4, 2008

We eventually wandered to the “back” of the (its western face), which is where the Museum is situated. Said museum was closed at the time (pity!), but the old fortifications at the western tip of the mountain were still intact and open to the public.

I took this from that vantage point. It’s a big file on my laptop (10000×1792 pixels), so it is presented here at 1200×215 resolution so that details are reasonably visible in it. That’s a bit wider than the usual Pic of the Day.

Our hotel is somewhere in the middle-right of the image. I very much doubt it’s really visible at this resolution, though.

is a staggeringly massive city, which is odd considering how small it looks from its aerial view. But everywhere in the picture here that is a) white or grey, and b) obviously not sky, is the city in all its expansiveness. And the same view can be found looking out from the Parthenon in every direction.

I can’t remember exactly how many images were woven into this one picture — six or eight, if memory serves (but there’s no counting on that). Edit-wise, I did some basic , fringe reduction, and white-balance adjustment in before attaching all the pictures together. Then, in , I ran the ‘Enhance’ feature on the photo, which really brought out a lot of the detail you’re seeing here. The thing I love about ‘Enhance’ is that it seems to be particularly good at dealing with foreground smog and windows in many pictures…it just brings out the stuff in the background as though the haziness wasn’t even there.

Where was this taken?
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