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  • Evaluation of the Ambassador Group 2024

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    The Ambassador Images group has now been in existence for three years. The original idea was " ... to show images by our members that are particularly worth seeing and that represent the spectrum of their work in the greatest possible diversity. It is not a 'best-of' group. " It is now time to evaluate whether the group has achieved this goal or whether adjustments may be necessary. The current inventory shows that of the total of 1264 contributions, 533 (42%) come from 81 group member…

  • 7 July 2023 - Club News

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    Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) The ipernity homepage. You can now click on the artist's name to go directly to the original photo. This will pause the slideshow ready for your return, after viewing the original. This new link will hopefully be beneficial to the artist as well as to non-members who will see exactly what our main individual photo pages look like. 2) Group highlight. A group that had lain dormant for many months now has a new admin team. New admin, Roger, w…

  • IGA (ipernity general assembly) 2023

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    Dear Full Club Members of ipernity, The IGA 2023 will take place on Saturday, March 25, 2023 at 6pm CET. Please check your clock for the correct time in your country. Your time zone ============================================================ We encourage all full club members to attend. ▶️ Follow this link to the sign up procedure . The verification of your identity is only necessary, if you are participating for the first time. Otherwise, we only require an email to im…

  • Besser schreiben mit KI (?)

    Besser schreiben mit KI (?)
    Seit Wochen ist in den Medien ein ziemlicher Hype um künstliche Intelligenz (KI) im Gange. Die größte Aufmerksamkeit bekommt dabei ChatGPT , eine neuartige Anwendung mit erstaunlichen Fähigkeiten und beeindruckender Eloquenz. Die Formulierungskunst von ChatGPT ist so gut, dass beispielsweise das Hamburger Landesparlament nicht gemerkt haben soll, dass ein Bürgerschaftsabgeordneter seine Rede vollständig damit erstellt hatte [ 1 ] . Im kolumbianischen Cartagena soll sogar ein Richte…

  • Was ist ein sehenswertes Foto?

    New Article: 'What Is A Noteworthy Photo?'
    English version : What is a noteworthy photo? Version française : : Qu'est-ce qu'une photo remarquable ? © German Federal Archive / B145 Picture-F088809-0038 / CC BY-SA 3.0 DE / Photographer Joachim F. Thurn / Painting: Dmitri Wladimirowitsch Wrubel / East Side Gallery, 1990 / Original Photo: Régis Bossus , Oct 5, 1979 Die Antwort ist einfach Die Antwort ist wirklich einfach, denn wir alle kennen solche Fotos. Sie wecken unsere Neugierde,…

  • What is a good photo?

    What is a good photo?
    © Bernhard Westrup ( Bergfex ) (collage with only own pictures) Three months ago, the administration of the ambassador pictures fell to me. This group is one of the flagships of ipernity, because the pictures in this group are shown to curious visitors from the web when they discover our website and click onto the button: Explore ➽Noteworthy . At this occasion, the co-admin raingirl , who also is a jury member, asked the important question: " What is a good photo? What mak…

  • 2022-11-04 Club News

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    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…

  • Autumn Pictures 2022 - Voting Result

    Autumn Pictures 2022 - Voting Result (1)
    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, For the first time in the history of ipernity, in the last two weeks there was the opportunity to vote on the pictures that will be on our homepage next season. As the supervisor for the homepage, I would now like to present the result t…

  • The ipernity Homepage - Part 1

    Ipernity Homepage since 2020
    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.) Sometimes when we ask our members to submit photos for the ipernity homepage, they answer: "I don't know it at all. I've been a member of ipernity for many years and never visit the homepage." Or: "I'm not interested in our…

  • Be a part of shaping ipernity's future!

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    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, On March 27, 2022, two mandates within the ima team will become vacant. We invite loyal and active club members to join the ima team to continue shaping the future of ipernity:…

  • New Club Members - most recent

    Mireille Marignac-Vinais ← publicly active Thomas Lamp ← publicly active Didier Foulard Katrina Anto Michael Thon ← publicly active ------------------------------- Rajeev Khana Lucus Oliver Wiener Tarockcup ← publicly active Christoph Blau ← publicly active Cristian Cernat Maria Rainer-Giotto ← publicly active Mark Balsiger Beat Loosli

  • 2021-12-24 Merry Christmas

    Merry Christmas 2021
    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, Today, we would like to thank you all for being a part of our community. We are grateful for your loyalty, and dedication as you share your passion for photography with us, especially during this unusual year. We wish you and your families a p…

  • Time for a breath of fresh air

    Dear club members, dear friends, In 2017, when I was asked by William Sutherland and Lutz Petersen to help save ipernity from shipwreck, I had just turned 65. I felt too young and energetic for a tranquil retirement. So I went for it, knowing well that it would be a challenging venture full of uncertainties because no one on the founding team was a qualified IT professional. But volunteering for a worthwhile non-profit project appealed to me, and as a passionate mountaineer I was used to hand…

  • The power of Misused Words

    The power of misused words
    Yesterday there was a deflagration of ether vapour at the chemical institute in Innsbruck (Austria). Such a deflagration is a fast combustion at the boundary surface between the heavy ether vapour and the lighter air above it after ignition. If the ether vapour had been swirled with the air beforehand, there would have been a huge explosion after ignition. But not a detonation . This is because in a detonation, the initial ignition creates a pressure wave that spreads through the expl…

  • 2020-12-24 Merry Christmas!

    Version française : Veuillez faire défiler vers le bas ⬇️ Deutsche Version: Bitte nach unten scrollen ⬇️ [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity, Unfortunately, our IT specialists were not able to repair the disruption of the upload function before Christmas. The cause is that the Amazon cloud no longer accepts the previous data transfer protocol. Solving this problem is extremely difficult, because the ipernity software is very complex, and any documentation is rather limited.…

  • Candidacy

    I would like to apply for the role of CTO, while I am more of an engineer with computer skills than an IT expert. Since my computer science lessons at school over 40 years ago, before Windows, my knowledge today is based on what I have taught myself. Much has grown out of working with Wim Janssen on votingmachines.panoramiogames.com . So I learned html, php, javascript and SQL, which is used there. This allowed me to help with the last small upgrades, but I found that ipernity is much mor…

  • How To Create A YouTube Picture Show Easily

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    At first reading everything might seem to be a little bit tedious. But do not worry. With some practice it goes rather fast. 1. Create a new directory on your PC. 2. Place copies of the images you want to show in the best available resolution . ⚠️ For prac…

  • Reactivation Proposal for Esperanto

    [FR] ▶️ Proposition de réactivation de l'espéranto [DE] ▶️ Reaktivierungsvorschlag für Esperanto [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity, Ten months ago, we had decided to further maintain the ipernity website only in the seven main languages of the western hemisphere. This cut the software maintenance effort in half so we could achieve twice as much with our limited programming capacity. Despite this limitation, we do reach 99.3% of all club members in their native langua…

  • Competitive Comparison of Display

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    1) Flickr Optical impression: ✅ Wide screen (responsive) ⛔️ Disorderly arrangement ⛔️ Little space between the pictures is annoying when viewing, ⛔️ Portrait format images are disadvantaged to landscape format images Information: ✅ Image description ⬜ Image title ( only visi…

  • 2020-06-12 Newsflash

    'What's hot' - 3 columns view, optimized
    [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) The summer collection of Frontpage pictures is now online. We thank all members who have enriched it with new contributions. 2) This morning we successfully exchanged one of our main servers. For this technical operation we had the support of an AWS expert from Innovations ON . He is currently checking our entire server architecture for the optimal balance between adequacy and performance to make sure that our website is running on an up…

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