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 #523
February 24, 2008
This is another picture from the Christmas Day sledding. After a few runs down the tree-lined path, we moved to a hill a few hundred metres to the East, and kept on sledding there. If you’ve never tried to go down a hill on a baking pan or a big, metal bowl, O Reader, let me assure you that you’ve missed something…unique. It’s surprising how fast those metal bowls can go, especially.
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This is one of Grace’s sisters coming to a rather…abrupt stop on the hill (hence the large amounts of flying snow). I had to wait a fair bit for this shot, and getting into position certainly kept me…cool (given that I was stretched out prone on the snow). As was the case with the previous picture, I just love the action in the shot — I think it makes the picture.
Edit-wise, I didn’t have to do as much to this shot, as I’d remembered to reduce the ISO setting on the camera by this point. I did have to do some highlight reduction, and I boosted the red and green saturations a bit (and the green luminance) to bring out some of the background details. Still, I’ve always been pleased with how well Canon cameras conduct themselves in outdoor conditions, and one of the great joys on my old PowerShot A70 was shooting outdoors in winter. The same holds true on the EOS 350D, I can assure you.
