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Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Is a group active? In order to support the current efforts by our members to improve the perception of groups, especially to visitors, a new feature has been added to assist them. On a group's homepage, the blue (?) icon beside 'Latest contributions' shows how long ago the most recent image was added to the group. Additionally, this is available via the [ i ] under each image. This is the date that a user agrees to a suggestion, or when a g…

Cela fait du bien, par ce temps maussade automnal, de lire ce texte extrait de "Vieillir, c'est chiant", par Bernard Pivot. "Vieillir, c’est chiant. J’aurais pu dire : vieillir, c’est désolant, c’est insupportable, c’est douloureux, c’est horrible, c’est déprimant, c’est mortel. Mais j’ai préféré « chiant » parce que c’est un adjectif vigoureux qui ne fait pas triste. Vieillir, c’est chiant parce qu’on ne sait pas quand ça a commencé et l’on sait encore moins quand ça finira. Non, ce n…

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…

The photo of the exterior of a store at Cymric, Saskatchewan in the Buildings album says a lot about my province. Cymric is a Welsh word that refers to both the Welsh language and the culture. It reminds me that place names here are derived from so many different sources, from the Indigenous peoples who lived here for thousands of years before European contact, to the people (mostly from the United Kingdon and Europe) who settled here in the 19th and 20th centuries. Place names helped keep alive…

IGA 2024 - Report of the President on 2023 Activity report on the year 2023 IGA 2024 - Rapport du Président sur l'année 2023 Rapport d'activité pour l'année 2023 IGA 2024 - Bericht des Präsidenten über das Jahr 2023 Tätigkeitsbericht über das abgelaufene Geschäftsjahr 2023

[A poem by Wendy Cope (born 1945)] On Waterloo Bridge, where we said our goodbyes, The weather conditions bring tears to my eyes. I wipe them away with a black woolly glove And try not to notice I've fallen in love. On Waterloo Bridge I am trying to think: This is nothing. You're high on the charm and the drink. But the juke-box inside me is playing a song That says something different. And when was it wrong? On Waterloo Bridge with the wind in my hair I am tempted to ski…

Foam Foam skirts agreed decorative collagen fringes in quilted hollow drains linger lingering crusts lips dry access to scrap by backwash teeter brushed pallor cross currents rich will Deliver acts of spume the indulgence of congealing purpose diffuse distance coffee in the middle of the deterioration hole after involuntary stages had bypassed via the window gaps Now packed behind books covered with finger monuments so called languished…

To Night

Much has been said about how creativity works, its secrets, its origins, and what we can do to optimize ourselves for it. In this excerpt from his fantastic 1991 lecture, John Cleese offers a recipe for creativity, delivered with his signature blend of cultural insight and comedic genius. Specifically, Cleese outlines “the 5 factors that you can arrange to make your lives more creative”: 1. Space (“You can’t become playful, and therefore creative, if you’re under your usual pressures.”) 2. Time (“It’s not enough to create space; you have to create your space for a specific period of time.”) 3. Time (“Giving your mind as long as possible to come up with something original,” and learning to tolerate the discomfort of pondering time and indecision.) 4. Confidence (“Nothing will stop you being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake.”) 5. Humor (“The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.”)

To my opinion a lot of photographs get better with diminished detail, call it abstraction if you like. The art of reduction is very interesting. Try for yourself: look for images that you like where reduction or abstraction is an essential part of the image. And then imagine how they would have looked without it. No distraction, no irrelevant details, no deviation, straight ahead. The only problem is the fact that the art of reduction has a steep learning curve ........... You c…

The 50 Images Project - Greenwich Foot Tunnel

Dear members and friends of ipernity, "We’ll take a cup o’ kindness yet, for auld lang syne." - Robert Burns With the ringing in of the new year, we wish our ipernity community a year of joy, laughter, and of course, lots of shared photos and images! The team is grateful for everything we've done together in the past year. May the excitement of what's yet to come fill our website and your lives. 1) Revision for user creating a new group. Relating to item 20 of the 'problems…

This is another of those teetering one-on-top of-the-other Jenga poems about the spidery cracks about the flaws in our armour holes in our hands dry rot black spores x-ray machines white shadows sorrows etc cracks in the ceiling fissures in the floor snowfall in the prefecture of Ishikawa and here are we light-headed walking with a camera through the picturesque Lakes…

Orginally wtitten as a reply to a comment by Homaris on Ipernity which can be found on Ipernity News Dec 1st 2023

Zu diesem verschwundenen Foto: Im Wartezimmer beim Podologen K. Da hat's jede sowas von nötig! Aber oben herum sind sie hübsch anzusehen! Edna Edenkoben: Deswegen sind sie ja auch beim podologen und nicht in der plastischen chirurgie. P. Ein wenig nervös sehen sie aus ... Edna Edenkoben: Ich wollte gerade eine fussmassage vorschlagen, aber dann erscheint es mir doch wiederum fast unmöglich. B.N. Ach herrje, haben die sich beim Shopping die Füsse abgelaufen? Machen…

Pylon the breeze carries traffic sounds across a tractor- scarred farmland... pylons above the bypass reiterate the vantage point of a buzzard...houses with grey blue slates ... nearly rhythmical murmur of the pines and far-heard traffic ... that’s how it always starts ... the engine of the reservoir, the soft light starts the red brick mantles of estates... the woman has her left arm raised to shoulder level and bent at the elbow ... that gesture... this, together with the smile that i…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Bulletin from our club president. On 7 October 2023 we were presented with a claim for monetary damages from a well-established and reputable German-headquartered company that specializes in obtaining compensation from intellectual property theft (e.g. copyright infringements) because of the actions of an ipernity member. He is now a past member because his account was promptly deleted along with the image that had been uploaded without the photog…

Am 23. 09. 2023 eröffnete das Museum Schloss Oberhausen eine umfangreiche Ausstellung über Michel Ende. Gezeigt werden 645 Einzelbilder in fast 200 Rahmen, sowie Marionettenszenarien aus dem Düsseldorfer Marionettentheater, die Michael Endes fantastische Geschichten betreffen. Es sind Kunstwerke, zum großen Teil auch von seinem Vater, Edgar Ende. Im Folgenden zitiere ich den Bericht der Westdeutschen Allgemeinen Zeitung (WAZ) vom 22. 09. 2023

“Never meet your heroes” is what they say. As a young man I had two – the Jaguar E-type (naturally) and the 7-litre, Frua-bodied AC428. Of the latter, only 79 were ever made and, unlike the E-type, the 428 was and remains little-known. Every year I went to the Motor Show at Earl’s Court to worship both of them, and arriving at their respective stands I would almost fall to my knees. I fantasised about speeding along The Hog’s Back in one or the other in a state of euphoria, but never in real…