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[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! Our COVID-19 deferral offer from last Friday has triggered an even more ambitious member initiative. Donations were offered to help those who have financial difficulties paying for due subscription renewals as a result of the Corona crisis. We welcome this initiative and make the following arrangement: ▶️ Aid can be granted for subscription renewals that are becoming due, up to no more than 30 days in advance. ▶️ The prerequisite is a…

UPDATED on 25.9.2020 It looks like DownThemAll developers have been busy to get it running with FireFox (Mozilla) again . However, the Metalink format used here on ipernity is not supported ! This is why one still have to either 1) use other methods , 2) use SeaMonkey and an older version of DownThemAll, as instructed below, or 3) wait until one fine day we get the whole ipernity reprogrammed. If the following old versions of Seamonkey and DownThemAll compo is not an option f…

I always try to find new ideas for photography, and pixelation is one of them. Here's a very inspiring artist. Daniel Rozin makes "mirrors" from somewhat any materials and surfaces, and gives a new perspctive on pixelated images. One possibility then is to try find a software that produces different shape of "pixels", other than just squares or dots.

[EN] We currently have a server malfunction. For unknown reasons one of the parallel working frontend servers is obviously looking towards an old version of ipernity. We are trying to fix this problem as soon as possible. Your IMA team [FR] Nous avons actuellement un dysfonctionnement d'un serveur. Pour des raisons inconnues, l'un des serveurs frontaux s'exécutant en parallèle fonctionne manifestement sur une ancienne version d'ipernity. Nous essayons de résoudre ce problème…

Dass anderen unsere Bilder gefallen, freut uns ja immer, und wenn sie sie dann auch noch für eigene Zwecke kommerziell nutzen wollen, fällt ja in der Regel auch noch ein bescheidener Obulus für uns ab. Kürzlich hat mich der Kraichgau Stromberg Tourismus e.V angeschrieben, weil er 5 meiner Fotos für seine Zwecke nutzen wollte und hat mir die folgende Vereinbarung geschickt. Das finde ich nun wirklich dreist, da werden alle Rechte gefordert bis hin zur Vermarktung an Dritte und die Überlassung erf…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity, This morning at 10:09 am the automatic monitoring systems of our website reported a fundamental dysfunction. Many of you have also quickly informed us about this outage. We thank you for that. The problem was that one of the main servers we hosted at the Amazon Web Service unexpectedly stopped. Thanks to the help of Christophe Ruelle, the former director of the ipernity website, normal operation was resumed at 13:05 (CEST). Fortunately, th…

Nachdem "die da oben" im Herbst 2018 wieder gemerkt haben, dass das mit der Zeitumstellung 1980 Unsinn war, haben sie beschlossen, diesen Unsinn rückgängig zu machen (weil über 80 Prozent der Europäer dafür sind). Das soll bereits im Jahre 2021 geschehen - dann haben sie nämlich das Jubiläum für 40 Jahre Unsinn überschritten. Herzlichen Glückwunsch zu dieser schnellen Umsetzung. Es wäre allerdings schön, wenn "die da oben" auch noch beschließen würden, dass der Freitag auf den Donnerstag v…

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Lately I have given a great deal of time and thought for what is commonly called as "street photography". It is more or less a genre of taking images of people one does not know. Usually it is about images of people in urbain area, but it can be any human figure seen anywhere. Please have a look at this Jamie Windsor's video 'Why you SHOULDN'T do STREET PHOTOGRAPHY' and give it a thought. So far street photography that includes human figures have never been my genre, and I guess it…

Updates on Pam ( latest - 27th September 2018) lifted from IMA thread, posted by Chris & Peggy - see comments.

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) After a well-deserved summer break, the ima team is back and would like to thank all users who have enriched ipernity with pictures and other contributions during the summer and holiday weeks. In addition, we would also like to thank those who have internally maintained operations and were available to help with any disruptions or questions. We would also like to thank our IT service provider Qwellcode, who quickly repaired another unforeseen s…

Moin ihr, auch wenn es so aussehen mag, dass ich hier nicht mehr aktiv bin, habe ich soeben meine Ende des Monats auslaufende Clubmitgliedschaft bei ipernity um weitere 6 Monate verlängert. Und ja, es ist in der Tat so - wirklich aktiv bin ich hier im Moment nicht mehr. Das liegt aktuell vor allem an einem Zeitdefizit, denn ich bin beruflich gerade sehr stark eingespannt. Aus diesem Grund komme ich aktuell nicht mehr dazu, zu fotografieren - geschweige denn, mir anderer Leute Fotos oder B…

There are so many fires around Oregon and California that most people are staying inside whenever possible because of the smoke. I bought a good mask over the weekend, so if I do have to go out I'll be prepared. It's also very hot (90° - 105°). So, I've got cabin fever and I am not the only one! There are similar conditions in many places on the globe. I just saw on the news that today, Tokyo was 105°! I have been to Japan and it was more humid than anyplace I've ever been, including W. Afri…

Instructions on how to add a picture in picture notes. A. Go to image which you want to add as a note on another image. Choose 'See all sizes' from 'Actions' menu to get the code . Select the size you want. 500px wide image is recommended. Skip this if you wish to add text only onto the note. B. Go to image where you wish to add a n…

ipernity has a unique and wonderful feature that Flickr doesn't have, which is the ability to put a picture into a note! This can be really useful to show your viewers related images without making them go to another page. Here's how to do it! :) 1) Go to the page with the picture you'd like to put a picture note on. 2) Open another tab, go to your stream on ipernity, and then to the picture you'd like to add as a note. 3) On the right side of the page, there is little bar which i…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) Synchronization problems on our upload servers have affected ipernity's performance since May 8th. In cooperation with Christophe Ruelle, our IT support team succeeded in finding and correcting the cause of the error. 2) We thank you in this context for your patience and your trust, as well as for the many encouragement we received via Facebook: www.facebook.com/pg/ipernity/reviews/?ref=page_internal 3) At the same time the direct link…

Ja, gerade mal reingeschneit... Ein Impuls, weil ich gestern von einem alten Ipernity-Freund (Sternenstaub) gefragt wurde, ob mir Instagram besser gefällt. Das konnte ich nicht beantworten, weil das alte Gefühl nicht mehr da war, Instagram aber einen ganz anderen Ansatz verfolgt und allein deshalb Spass bringt.

[EN] You can finally share your private content outside ipernity with people who do not have an account on ipernity! By private we are referring to content you do not share on ipernity or only with your friends and family. This affects all your content: photos, videos, docs, articles and albums! To share one of your private content, simply click on the new sharing button (see screenshots). We then generate a special link to access your content that you can give out to your guests vi…

We are "social media nomads", not like those who are travelling around the world and keeping their personal blog or vlog about it, but folks who try to survive in the jungle of social media services. We try to find best and cheapest place to share our creativity and hunger for inspiration. And what makes us as nomads is the fact that nothing seems to continue forever, especially not the social media services. Who remembers such communities as Multiply and My Opera? Who will soon remember Pan…

15.08.2017 : Man muss sich sputen mit der Terminplanung, auch wenn's noch 9 Monate hin ist. Rundherum schlagen schon wieder Termine für tolle Fototreffen ein. Hamburg findet natürlich 2018 auch wieder statt, alternativ am WE vor oder am WE nach dem 1 Mai (den man aber vielleicht auch noch einbauen kann). Programmideen gibt es schon, dazu werde ich mich in den kommenden Monaten mit Klaus und Volker beraten. Tragt euch vorsorglich schon mal ein, wenn ihr wieder dabei sein wollt. Den Doodle d…