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... 1001, if someone dies. In nun 57 Lebensjahren bin ich viel herum gekommen in der Welt, und der Hunger ist noch nicht gestillt. Schon als Kind faszinierten mich Reiseberichte aus verschiedenen Zeiten und von verschiedensten Orten. Dabei ist es mir ziemlich egal, welcher auch noch so entlegenster Winkel dieser Welt mir warum auch immer gerade in den Sinn kommt - er ist es Wert besucht zu werden. Und wenn mir heute jemand eine Reise zum Mars anbietet, von der ich wahrscheinlich nie zurück kehren würde - ich würde das Angebot annehmen. Nun ist ein ganz banaler Ort hinzugekommen bzw. hat plötzlich Koordinaten und Adresse bekommen - der Resurrection Cemetery auf Staten Island, New York City. Hier findet mein Cousin Timmy Burke seine letzte Ruhestätte.

... dachte ich mir neulich. Nun ist es so, daß man ein Drucker zu Hause in seinem "Homeoffice" nicht zwingend benötigt. Der PC läuft auch ohne. Trotzdem ist es so, daß man Dokumente oder Bilder gern auch einmal schwarz auf weiß, oder auch farbig haben möchte. Sei es drum, ob das vielleicht ein Dokument für irgendeine Behörde ist, oder etwas für's Album oder einfach nur um es "analog", außerhalb elektronischer Medien, zu sichern. Deswegen ist eigentlich schon immer ein Drucker an meinen PC ang…

Ich muss mal ein paar Worte dem Wilfried widmen, der gestern meinen Kommentar gelöscht hatte und mich danach aus seiner "Freundesliste" nahm. Auch andere wurden gelöscht, wie ich es verfolgen kann. Gerade in der momentanen Zeit, kann ich das nicht so mal stehen lassen.

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Ich schreibe diese Zeilen in unserer alten Wohnung in Weilerswist. Genau drei Wochen sind vergangen seit der Flutkatastrophe im Tal der Ahr – uns hat es glimpflich getroffen, wir sind gesund und die materiellen Verluste überschaubar. Auch wenn wir jetzt vor schwierigen Entscheidungen stehen – wir sind flexibel und haben die Möglichkeiten, uns neu zu sortieren. Viele andere Betroffene können dies, fürchte ich, nicht von sich sagen. Für mich persönlich ist es Zeit, meine Erinnerungen an die Tage d…

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, 1) The summer pictures are now online on our homepage. We would like to thank all the photographers who provided the images. Here you…

Version française : Veuillez faire défiler vers le bas ⬇️ Deutsche Version: Bitte nach unten scrollen ⬇️ [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) We thank you for the patience and sympathy we received during the downtime of the ipernity website. By now the ipernity website has been successfully rebooted. As far as we can see, no data or subscriptions have been lost. In individual cases, however, double uploads may have occurred. Please check your accounts for this and clea…

Version française : Veuillez faire défiler vers le bas ⬇️ Deutsche Version: Bitte nach unten scrollen ⬇️ [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Today we would like to thank Google first of all. As announced on the Google Blog , beginning June 2021 the company will end the distorting practice of offering unlimited free storage space for photos in its cloud. 2) Even more pleasing is the fact that ipernity was mentioned in the specialised media in October 2020…

Version française : Veuillez faire défiler vers le bas ⬇️ Deutsche Version: Bitte nach unten scrollen ⬇️ [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) The ipernity advertising group , in which we are bundling future advertising activities for our club, now has 60 members. We are pleased about the great interest and active participation . 2) The list of photo bloggers , which belongs to this group, already has 45 entries. If you know other photo bloggers, add…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) In the comments to the last Newsflash again many suggestions for improvement were made. We will do our best to fulfill them. However, it is not possible to make changes that require modifications of the database. With a ten-year-old database recording millions of uploads, ratings and comments linked together, the risk of causing critical follow-up problems would be too great. 2) Technical support would be helpful to accelerate the proce…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) Last Sunday the Ipernity General Meeting IGA2020 took place. The attendance ( list of 43 participants ) was significantly better than last year (31 participants). 2) All major activities of the ima team and the progress made were presented in the report of the CEO . Particularly noteworthy is the successful differentiation of the previous unified club membership into needs-based subscription packages with different features. The number of…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) There is currently a problem in the PayPal payment process. Deposits are accepted correctly, but are not automatically booked through. The manual activation of subscription renewals and their confirmation can take up to 48 hours. We ask for patience until the error is corrected. 2) To keep the register of members up to date, we occasionally delete accounts that have not been used for more than three years. If their owners were group adminis…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) For playing video or audio files, ipernity has meanwhile been upgraded to modern, secure HTML5 elements. However, at this time, files embedded in blogs do still need Adobe Flash Player. 2) While this modernization went off without a hitch, another one had an unexpected side effect: In the blog editor, the “Insert a media” option no longer gives access to your content. Until this bug is fixed we recommend an alternative method . We apolog…

I must begin this article by offering my very sincere thanks for the kind messages of support and concern we have received from so many ipernity members. It really has brought home to me that this is a very caring community group, not merely a photo sharing site. The essential point you need to know is that Pauline and I, and our furry friends, are safe and well and apart from being covered in soot and losing power and communications, our property has not been affected by the fires. As at wri…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) To make it easier for you to see what's new in ipernity, there's now a message bar at the top of your main page. After reading you can simply click it away. To make viewing ipernity friendlier for the eyes, the left and right margins have been darkened. Club members with Standard or Plus subscriptions who wish to keep their page margins bright can do so individually via an advanced "Page Color" option menu. Moreover, the page color and the col…

Liebe Fotofreunde, wir schreiben das Jahr 2019. Der Fotokosmos - unendliche Brennweiten. Das Universum der Fotocommunities wurde von heftigen Implosionen erschüttert. Ein unsägliches Schwarzes Loch hat die Flagschiffe Panoramio, Picasa und Ipernity geschluckt (diese Diskontinuität brachte mein stabiles Raum-Zeit-Kontinuum in eine depressive Lage und ich krabble erst jetzt wieder langsam aus dem Holodeck). Ipernity? Nein! Nachdem das Raumschiff am Rande des schwarzen Loches ins Trudeln gerie…

People often wonder how the images become picked to ipernity Explore . And here I try to figure it out and explain, as well as I can. The very first thing one needs to understand is that Explore is more or less an overview on what is popular during last few days. However, popularity is a tricky concept. One should keep in mind that what is popular may not match with any subjective or shared understanding on what is quality . If number of ipernity members like images of fences, or more p…

While New York City, a metropolis of 8.6 million is known for its urban bustle and towering skyscrapers currently with four over 100 stories tall, Central Park with its diverse ecosystems and abundance of flora and fauna provides a hidden view of New York City and a welcome escape from the urban din. “Under the forest canopy of the Ravine , Manhattan’s skyline is hidden and the rushing sound of a waterfall drowns the city noise. When Park designers Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux create…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) A few days ago, ipernity was exposed to a massive attack by Russian spam bots, who managed to overcome the Google Captcha authentication. Despite immediate countermeasures, some intruders managed to open accounts from which iper mails with links to pornographic content were sent to members. But at no time was any personal data or private contents compromised by this bot attack . Please delete any messages delivered to your personal address wi…