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 #35
October 25, 2006
Today’s picture is actually a semi-redo of a shot I took over a year ago, while wandering through the downtown core of Edmonton. For comparison, here is the original picture.
That shot was taken on my 3.2 megapixel Canon PowerShot A70, and to be fair it’s not a bad shot for a compact camera. The digital noise is more apparent on the older sensor (which is using Canon’s DiGIC processor, not the Rebel XT’s DiGIC 2), and obviously the resolution is lower.
Here’s the shot off of the new camera, and the actual picture for today.
Where was this taken?
It’s hard to produce an exact replica of the original shot, simply because the camera lenses behave in different ways and it’s almost impossible to set the exact same level of zoom. And the lighting conditions are different as well — the Sun is in a different position in the sky in May than it is in October (and then a couple of hours later in the day, if memory serves).
Still, the shot comparison is instructive in showing what’s changed between the cameras. The overall content of the picture is the same, but the level of detail being recorded has gone up by multiples.
