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Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Notes for new members. It was a task for the Moderator to send an ipermail to new members with useful information. This would inevitably not be at the instant of registration. It also required a decision on who to exclude as likely spammers. The text is now available in our 7 supported languages, as item 1.6 in the FAQ section. We view this as an overall improvement, while accepting the loss of the personal touch. This is mitigated by community bein…

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 inde…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Two months until IGA. Sign up for the meeting now. Our annual membership meeting is due to be held on Sunday April 7th 2024, 5pm Paris (16:00 UTC) . "When are the others turning up?" Don't delay, 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. 2) Speaking of groups of animals... Our team advisor, past Club…

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…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, Seasons Greetings! With the coming change of season we are reminded that we are a global community. We are happy that here on our website we are able to enjoy, both the cold low winter light and the brightness of hot summer. What a pleasure to share these moments with each other. We are thankful for this community which shows us how varied our world is. Peace be with you. 1) Statement from our Club President about AI images. We've notice…

Here is a poetry book with a modern and original structure, as if it were a two-dimensional graph of intervals, autobiographical, where the author, with mastery and great beauty, X-rays the remarkable moments of her life. The abcissa of the graph distributes the poem into four chapters/quadrants (endless, unfading, ceaseless, undying), which are divided into twelve months of the year, from Spring to Winter, as if the entire life were nothing more than a tellurian cyclical repetition of the fo…

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…

"the supreme good of writing is the silence" (a taborda) Another book by one of the best Portuguese poetic voices. The author makes her incessant writing a redundant and vital act, in the systematic search for silence that pacifies and puts her to sleep. It's not that her life, that of others, and the environments surrounding her don't add frequent emotions to her skin (the music is recurrent), but the bitterness is perenial, and also the astonishement of still being alive. It's…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Revised Landing Page. The selection of images for the Landing Page has been made, and the software update implemented, see Explore . You will note that the image changes each time the page is refreshed. This is on a random basis, so you might get the same image twice, but most of the time it will be different. We hope that this refresh, suggested by our membership, helps new members engage with the text and our website, and that our current me…

L'amour est n'importe où dans la nature, Il est l'essence de l'esprit et du corps L'être sur cette terre aime les aventures Mais cherche à aimer et être aimé si fort. L'amour est une belle relation sans trêve ! Un refrain, un ballet, une danse et un son Qui sont au fait les sources de nos rêves Des fois pleines de sanglots et de chansons. L'amour ce lien entre hommes et femmes Est la splendeur et la beauté des étoiles Le bonheur, la joie et le plaisir de l'âme Allégeant les…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) World Photography Day - August 19th, 2023. What a great success! For this year's event 70 people captured their photographic day and interests literally from all over the world. From favorite cameras, to the depths of the night sky, from well planned out images to spontanious discoveries, our members celebrated the gift of photography. View all the wonderful contributions in the group here and join in the conversations about why and how th…

World Photography Day is an annual, worldwide celebration of the art, craft, science and history of photography. This year our club’s World Photography Day group will honor the day by accepting photographs taken on Saturday, August 19th, 2023. Each photographer may submit one photo (for 2023 a second photo will be allowed if placed in the description of your first photo). Submissions will be accepted through the end of August to allow time for editing, processing, and uploading. S…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) World Photography Day - August 19th, 2023. Will your photo be out of this world? Get your cameras ready! Our annual World Photography Day celebration is happening soon. Remember that contributions will need to be taken on August 19th. More details will be posted in a news article about a week before the event. 2) Online kindness. iperni…

Apparently it is PayPal and not ipernity. A message from PayPal to another site operator includes, "our engineers are investigating this problem". Please delay your renewal until the blue banner message is changed to signal the ok. If your membership is going to end within a day, then the Donate link in the footer of ipernity pages does enable a payment to be made. It may force you to input the amount in euros, for 1 year standard this is €49.90, and for 6 months it is €24.95 If you use t…

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…

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 rectangle…

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, As the year is ending we are grateful for all the time, energy and kindness you give to our photographic community. Your loyalty and dedication warms our hearts. Thank you so much for being part of ipernity. This year we would like to inv…

EN BIG HUGSSSSSSSSS AND THANKYOU SO MUCH FOR THINKING OF ME ! I WAS DISCHARGERED ON EDNESDAY AFTERNOON... BUT I AM IN HELLISH PAIN AND ALSO NOT BECAUSE OF THE OPERATION..MY SIGHT IS IN A TERRIBLE MESS. . THE STROKE WE KNOW MADE A HUGE MESS OF MY VISUAL CORTEX.... BUT HE CORTEX IS DOING AWFUL THINGS. I NEED TO MAKE APPOINTMENTS WITH H EYE DR SPECIALIST DR PATEL AND THE NEURO DR DR ANDREW BAUER AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. SOMETHING HAS FRITZED IT BADLY MY BACK WOULD MAKE A FENCE…

The Teresa ALVAREZ last book, dedicated "to those who turn words into ammuniton", is organized in "fragments", as if they were the shrapnel of all Ukrainian wars in the world, the destruction, the death, the suffering, the inexplicable aberration that persists in the 21st century a mantle of fear covering the humanity destiny. And amidst the bitterness and war uncertainties, on the "twenty-third day", " a man and a woman love each other" and, "they decide that afternoon not to die". Hope…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Winter is here. Yesterday was the meteorological beginning of winter. We have updated the homepage pictures accordingly. We thank all those who contributed with pictures, as well as those who helped with the selection. You can browse the picture collection, which also contains many new photos, in this album , but also as a slide show on YouTube . 2) Take your camera to snap fresh winter pictures. If you feel the desire to show winter…