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 #469

January 1, 2008

Taking a brief break from the Greece pictures, I’d like to post something a bit more relevant to the dawn of the new year, 2008. Last night, Grace and I went to see the fireworks in ’s , in the heart of the downtown core. The city just won the title of Cultural Capital of Canada for 2007 (whatever that means), and put on the largest-ever pyrotechnic display in the history of the city’s downtown area to celebrate that fact.

Just one of several good shots of the fireworks that I managed to get — and I was freehanding, as has become custom for me. Oh, if I really wanted to make an issue out of it, I’d go and get my tripod back from my brother…but then, when one is standing in the middle of a few thousand people, a tripod is kind of a liability. And there really isn’t space to set it up in the first place.

Edit-wise, I did some fringe reduction in and around the brighter sets of sparks, as well as noise reduction (this was shot at ISO 800, after all) and the usual colour calibration that I apply to all my photos. And as the reader can see, it turned out just nicely. I used to be just terrified of shooting things like this without benefit of tripod; thanks to the stabilizer, I’m much more at ease with the idea now.

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