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For all your kind comments and wishes for our little son. Today we are now all back home, little Leander does very well and also his mother is on a good way after the Cesarean section last Sunday.

Sorry for not answering each single comment, but last week was too exciting...

Week 33

...and a happy new Year to all of you, my friends!

We're going now on Christmas holidays to Berlin.

See you all next year

Horizontals: Wing

Tomorrow I'll go for two weeks to Santa Barbara. Kind of 'working holiday' :)

Have a good time here!

Exhibition

I'm really happy that I'll have my first real exhibition next week, Thursday 04/17, in Bonn.

So if you're able to come, please join us! The event will be held at an office in the Gotenstraße 27 in Bonn and will start at 5 p.m.

Every one is very welcome :)

...is the new video feature on flickr. Like last year when the safe search filter was introduced an uproar goes through the flickr community with all the same side effects as last year, emotional discussions in the forum and groups, anti-video groups and anti-video pictures.

And hundreds of people claiming that they will leave flickr. Maybe some will really do, but for them ipernity of course is the wrong place, not only that it allows photos and video, it allows all kind of media at the same time... ;)

So this time another page or different pages will gain from the new flickr feature, I fear...

Just noted a strange thing in my archives. Even though I uploaded some pictures in April, the archives page shows no uploads for this month. And when I look at the specific pictures the upload date are really some days in March.

I'm using the greasmonkey script for the picture transfer from flickr to ipernity to upload my pictures. Seems the scripts takes the flickr upload date as ipernity upload date. Is this a bug or a feature?

Anyway it's a little bit confusing, cause the order of the upload dates is different from the order in the photostream...

I'm asking this, cause I do not understand it at all. Compared to my flickr account I get about 10% visitors to my photo stream on ipernity, so I would expect that this roughly holds also for the views on single pictures (as it does for comments or faves). And in the first view days it really does. I got some visits from my contacts and some anonymous visitors. Than the number of daily views drops down. Okay, that's reasonable and I can observe the same on flickr.

But while the number of daily views drops down to something  between  0 and 5  on flickr, I still god dozens of anonymous views on my pictures every day. There are pictures in my stream with almost no comments but 1000 views after little more than one month! On average it's something like 20-30 views per day and picture.

I can't believe that this is real traffic, cause where should that people come from? Of course not from inside ipernity, cause in that case the quota of non-anonymous visitors should be higher (but that's almost zero). And I don't think that they come from search engines like google, cause ipernite's page rank is much lower than flickr's and even on flickr one get  only something like 30% visitors via search engines.

The only thing I can imagine are search robots or just an error in the counters... Anyway it would be nice to have like on flickr a statistic function to see in more detail how people are coming to your stream.

To have pictures from our international meeting in Berlin on ipernity's front page or in the 'what's hot' site, one can expect, but to have one flickrs explore page, is something different. Especially not just one picture, accidentally taken on that day, no, it's a picture of Lea, one of ipernity's team members...

Nottiestyle added some wonderful links to the Japan group. Please go and have a look:

www.ipernity.com/group/japan/discuss/14757

Museum Insel Hombroich

Today I finally uploaded the last picture from my first ipernity/flickr meeting with the Cologne meeting group at the 'Museum Insel Hombroich'. It was a wonderful day and I hope you will like some of the pictures I took there.

I think, now I should start with the pictures from my first international ipernity meeting two weeks ago in Berlin... :)

I just want to say thank you to all people who joined the Berlin meeting last weekend! Really a pleasure to see the faces behind the avatars and talk in real life to you :)

Cause I have no appropriate internet access, pictures will no be here since sometime next week...

...in Berlin!

More infos you find here:

www.ipernity.com/group/meeting.berlin.2008

 

Don't miss the ipernity meeting from February 23-24 in Berlin!

Detailed information you can find in this group: www.ipernity.com/group/meeting.berlin.2008

See you in Berlin!

Hi friends!

Please have a look at nottiestyle's great work in the Japan group:

www.ipernity.com/group/japan/discuss/13803

Since I joined flickr two years ago people were complaining about the takeover of flickr by yahoo. And when people were forced to get a yahoo-ID to keep their flickr account there was a great uproar in the flickr community.

The world was very clear: flickr is good and yahoo is evil. Many people left flickr cause of yahoo, others stayed but never stopped complaining.

And now? Just a few hours ago it was announced the Microsoft wants to take over yahoo and what is the flickr community doing? They're afraid to loose their yahoo-ID's!!!!

The status of yahoo has just changed from evil to at least acceptable, because the real evil has now  entered the scenery...

The same people writing always against yahoo are now defending it and started to fight against Microsoft.

Isn't that crazy?

All this, flickr, yahoo, Microsoft, google and also ipernity is not about good and evil, it's about making money, and therefor, I think, there's no need for discussion on the level of morality...

I think some of you have already sold some pictures for different occasions, so maybe someone could help me with the following problem:

How much money could an amateur like me could take if someone want to use his pictures. Up to know I sold two times some pictures. The first time it was someone who need some pictures as decoration for a restaurant. He offered me 200$ for four pictures. The next time I got 200  Pounds for 10 images  from an tourist agency.  They always  wanted  them  as digital data, not as a print.

I was quite happy about this, but of course I don't know if it was a reasonable prize. At the moment I have two other offers. One is a picture for a book title. No idea how much they should pay me.

There's also someone  who wants to use them on his webpage and offered me a prize like on pages as istockphot.com. It's something like 3$ for a midsize picture. That's not really much money.

At the moment I always ask the people how much they want to pay, but of course, that could be stupid, if they offer a less money as it would be reasonable.

Are there any webpages or other sources to get information about prizes for pictures. Or has someone of you experiences with that and could give me some hints?

 

Hanabi Taikai

I wish you all a happy new year!

May it be as good and successful as the last one :)

Last few weeks I hadn't really much time for all this community stuff, so I was rather quite and almost not looking at your pictures, my friends. Really sorry for that...

Some of the time I spend on setting up my private homepage. It's still far from being finished, but I at least I have started ;)

If you like, just take some of your time and have a short look at it. You can find it here: manganite.net

 

Christmas is coming...

Last but not least I would like to thank the team for putting one of my Christmas pictures on the frontpage. I'm really happy about it :)

And even if it is a little bit early now (but I'm not sure having enough time in the next days...), I'll wish already everyone:

Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year!