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 #478
January 10, 2008
Near to the Ancient Agora in Athens is an ancient cemetery in the process of being excavated. Situated just a bit north and west of the Temple of Hephaestus, some of the graves in this cemetery evidently date back a good 3,000 years; there is so much history there that you can even track the changing attitudes in ancient Greek society toward full-body burials vs. cremation.
Also, they have tortoises there.
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Grace and I were just walking along through the cemetery when I glanced down and saw this guy just sitting there. I almost thought he was a statue at first, until he moved. I took a couple of different photos of him, including this one from essentially ground-level.
This was an unaimed shot, as I was holding the camera by my feet at the time and hoping for the best. Fortunately, the best more or less happened, and the tortoise was even obliging enough to stick his head up and out (just a bit) for the photo. Edit-wise, I didn’t have to do much (shooting all of Greece in JPEG mode was such a good idea) to this shot apart from some chromatic aberration correction — the camera handled the saturation and sharpness just fine, and the picture turned out great. I’ve learned to keep the 17-85 mm lens locked at f/8 whenever possible, and this picture demonstrates why for how sharp the details are.
