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 #477
January 9, 2008
The day after we saw the Parthenon and the Ancient Agora, Grace and I set out to see a few more archaeological sites in the middle of Athens. The first place we set out for was an ancient graveyard, and along the way we had to pass down a rather busy, dirty, noisy road.
I couldn’t help but noticing that some of the buildings along the way were in…bad shape.
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We saw it on Crete, and we saw it again here: a lot of buildings in Greece look as though nobody has bothered to repair the bomb damage from World War II. This was just one more example.
That said, I managed to capture the building from a pretty appealing angle. Edit-wise, I had to do some highlight recovery (clouds can make for a very bright background), as well as some fringe reduction. That was all in Lightroom. I then tried to run the iPhoto ‘Enhance’ option on the picture, but nothing really changed. It’s rare when that happens, but when it happens I usually take it as a sign that I got the post-processing almost exactly where it needed to be.
