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 #473

January 5, 2008

In due time, we had to bid farewell to the — Grace freely admits that she could have spent several days on the site, but since we weren’t going to be in Athens for several more days, and because there were other fascinating historical buildings to take in, we elected to move on.

Still, I captured this shot as we were leaving, and it really — I think — sums up ’s enthusiasm for this ancient temple. There she is, pausing to take one last, parting picture of something which has captured her imagination for years, which she has finally been able to see up close.

This is one of the last shots I took before I managed to get the on my camera straightened out again; every once in a while, it’s like my brain refuses to properly process exactly what my eyes are seeing, with the consequence as a result being that the colour balance in the picture is just a bit…”off”. Mind you, it was cloudy that day, so using the ‘Cloudy’ white balance setting seemed like the sensible thing to do. Of course, with all the smog and haze from the recent (well, then-recent fires hanging in the air, the air itself was tinted in such a way as to force the back closer to that of sunlight.

Edit-wise, then, I had to adjust the white balance on this shot, in addition to correcting for a bit of in . Then, in , I once again used the ‘Enhance’ feature to bring the picture out even more, correcting the colour once again and…I don’t know what it is, but that ‘Enhance’ feature really brings out the copper in Grace’s hair.

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