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 #489
January 21, 2008
This is a panoramic view of the Roman Agora. As the Reader will note, it sits in the shadow of the Acropolis, visible here in the middle of the frame. The Acropolis is located to the south of the Agora, just for reference.
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As the Reader can see, the Roman Agora is basically just an open market square. There are a few interesting bits of stone relics along the southern side, and the Tower of the Winds is in the eastern part of the Agora. A former mosque — now converted to a storage area — sits in the northern part of the Agora, and I took the photos making up this picture from just south of that building. The Tower of the Winds is visible on the left, behind the trees.
As is usual for my panoramas, I began by editing each photo in Lightroom, balancing exposures and getting rid of any chromatic aberration in the shots. I then exported them all as TIFFs and loaded them into Hugin. After defining a generous set of control points, I rendered the shot and cropped it down too what is seen here. It’s becoming a pretty straightforward, almost “seamless” (pun!) process for me, which I like.
