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Dear members and friends of ipernity, The implementation of secure (SSL) connection on all of our pages is planned for Saturday 11 May 2024. Starting around 08:00 UTC and lasting maybe a total of 8 hours. But as we have several servers, there should be no down time, as we can check that all is well on one, before committing to the change. But if you experience a slow-down in response, then please just be patient, and know that this is the likely cause. If you do subsequently come across…

Executive Board (elected by the Ipernity General Assembly on March 25, 2023 and April 7, 2024) William Sutherland , United States, President Corinne Pommerell , Luxemburg, Treasurer Rob Stamp , United Kingdom, Webmaster Laura Fletcher , United States, Moderator Executive Assistants ( appointed by the Executive Board in accordance with ARTICLE VII,10 of the IMA Statutes ) Helena-Paule Fitoussi , France (hotline, spam removal) Stefan Roßkopf , Germany (IT) S…

We look forward to the members confirming these appointments at the IGA. In reply to our call for candidatures for the mandates of Vice President and Treasurer, one person has come forward: No one has come forward for Vice-President. Corinne Pommerell - as Treasurer. Current incumbent, standing for re-election The ima team therefore proposes to the General Assembly as candidate: 1) Vice-President - none 2) Treasurer Cori…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1. One month until IGA. Sign up by April 3rd in order to attend. Our annual membership meeting will be held online on Sunday April 7th 2024, 5pm [Correction: 6pm] Paris (16:00 UTC) . Please see Sign-Up Procedure for IGA . For anyone who has not attended previously, a look at the IGA group will give you an idea of how the meeting is conducted online. There are two mandates open for election. 2. Meeting in the real world. We are ind…

New-Delhi (Inde) - La municipalité de new-Delhi a réussi à exproprier la totalité des 2.700 familles d’artistes de rue qui vivaient dans la colonie du bidonville de Kathputli, située à l’Ouest de Delhi. Les artistes ont bien tenté de résister, faisant prendre plusieurs années de retard au projet de modernisation urbaine, mais aujourd’hui, les promoteurs ont gagné.

La région du Dhanbad dans l’Etat du Jharkhand, est la capitale indienne du charbon. Les compagnies minières y exploitent d’immenses mines à ciel ouvert. Entre les engins mécaniques qui ravagent la nature environnante, les mineurs illégaux, qui résident dans les villages à proximité des mines, tentent de récupérer quelques miettes de ce charbon pour survivre. Tous souffrent de maladies respiratoires chroniques ; mais il faut bien vivre et le charbon est à portée de main.

The beginning is brilliant, a remake of "2001: The Space Odyssey", by Stanley KUBRICK, promises a film speaking of the future of a better humanity. But then it touches on many things at the same time, inequality between sexes, consumerism, overspending, love, beauty versus ugliness and intelligence, youth versus aging, life verssus death, it touches on it all, sometimes masterfully, other times hastily. At the end, the idea remains that the movie is honest and pretends to be moralistic, b…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Next season. Summer is around the corner and the summer collection of homepage pictures and accompanying slideshow are online. See the slideshow on YouTube , and without logging out, see the ipernity homepage here. A deep thank you to all members who have added new contributions which keeps our website looking fresh. Keep those suggestions coming! And the team gives many thanks to Bernhard and * ઇઉ * for all the har…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1. Picture-in-picture (PiPs) in lightbox. The full screen 'Lightbox view [z]' now displays PiPs. It does not allow you to edit your own PiPs, but the feature is designed to help you be aware of PiPs when viewing other people's photos. The outline rectangles appear as you move the mouse, and then fade out when you stop moving the mouse. This is unlike the main photo page where they are always visible when the mouse is over the photo. The recta…

Maybe you have already registered that some guys have cool photos which are showing other photos inside by using a note? If not: here are some possible examples (the photo which was used for this article has ten "Picture in Picture" notes and was about Hamburgs Criminal Justice Building ). You could find more of such examples in the group PiP ★ Picture in Picture . Note that you need a club membership to do this, as adding notes to photos is a club-only function.

Dear members and friends of ipernity, Last Saturday, March 25th, 2023 the Ipernity General Assembly 2023 took place. The previous Board of our Association was discharged for its activities in 2022. The following links provide information on the course of the Assembly and the results: ● Agenda of the 2023 IGA ● Participants in the 2023 IGA ● President's report on 2022 ● Treasurer's report on 2022 ● Annual financial report for 2022 ● Minutes of the 2023 IGA…

Agenda of the Ipernity General Assembly 2023 (IGA2023) Ordre du jour de l'Assemblée Générale d'Ipernity 2023 (IGA2023) Tagesordnung der Ipernity-Mitglieder-Generalversammlung 2023 (IGA2023)

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1. Help us select the best homepage pictures for the winter season! Due to the great interest in the trial voting for the homepage pictures in July, voting is now offered again for the upcoming winter pictures. If you would like to take part, follow this link: Vote on the ipernity homepage pictures for this winter . 2. Improve the visibility of your pictures. When browsing the gallery pictures using the Lightbox view, you may have noticed t…

Photography is like writing, you start with an empty piece of paper, then fill it using your creativity. What is in your mind, what is on that paper, do they correspond, do they have connection? Do you start with an idea, then start writing, word for word, sentence by sentence until your story is complete? Or do you put a lot of words on that paper and start telling it is a story afterwards? Next time remember, photography can be a window to the mind! --------------------------------…

For other languages: ipernity club members may use the integrated translator at the end of this article. (Visitors: Please use DeepL Translator or install an add-on that suits your browser.) Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1. This weekend we are celebrating a 5 years anniversary , as on September 1, 2017, we members took over the operation of this website and thus saved it from disappearing. Since then, we have overcome all challenges. We are g…

For other languages: ipernity club members may use the integrated translator at the end of this article. (Visitors: Please use DeepL Translator or install an add-on that suits your browser.) Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1. Summertime is here, and the pictures on our homepage have been updated to the Summer Collection 2022 . Many thanks to the club members who have contributed to this collection. 2. The pictures can also be viewed a…

For other languages: ipernity members may use the integrated translator at the end of this article. (Visitors: Please use DeepL Translator or install an add-on that suits your browser.) Dear members and friends of ipernity, Hamburg Meetup Last week, between Thursday and Sunday, about 30 ipernity members from Germany, Austria and Switzerland (and maybe other countr…

For other languages: ipernity members may use the integrated translator at the end of this article. (Visitors: Please use DeepL Translator or install an add-on that suits your browser.) Dear members and friends of ipernity, Happy Earth Day ! Please take a moment today to honor the earth and to wish for peace. Perhaps today is a good day to take a photo of the natural…

La Leyenda de La Llorona | The Story of The "Llorona" or The Weeping Woman Entre la mitología folclórica latinoamericana, la leyenda de la Llorona prevalece por su presencia: se conoce desde Chile a Mexico con variaciones, pero manteniendo su esencia. A continuación transcribo una recopilación de relatos de diversas personas, de diversos orígenes recordando la leyenda. Algunos textos están en español y otros en inglés, tal como me los relataron, no los edité. Uno de ellos, lo…

[New as of April 2022, latest minor edit to instructions August 2023] Since the native replace feature of our website no longer works for all file types, we are offering you an alternative replace function for photos today. How does it work? Short, summary version: - find the old picture, set it to 'private' and copy the picture number, - upload the new image, set it to 'private', click 'Replace', - paste the number of the old picture and start the process. In detail: ❶…