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I. Im Jahre des Herrn 1240, an Matthäi, besiegte das Volk der alten und stolzen Stadt Marßen das Heer seines Landesherrn, Herzogs Siegbert I. in der Schlacht am Uelemer Bruch. Es bewerkstelligte dies natürlich nicht allein. Der Umstand, dass es bei der besagten Schlacht keinesfalls um eine Auseinandersetzung zwischen städtischer Freiheit und landesherrlicher Tyrannei ging, sollte dem Selbstwertgefühl der späteren Freien Reichsstadt Marßen jedoch genauso wenig abträglich sein wie die vergleich…

We received a bank transfer payment at the end of March without the reference of the ipernity account number, nor could any match be made via the name. If the member who we assume has lapsed to a Guest account, has knowledge of a payment made by E S Kessinger, please contact the team. This case is an example of the delay for the member, and the extra effort by team, when this piece of information is not included.

Deutsche Version : Was ist ein sehenswertes Foto? 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 The answer is simple The answer is actually simple, as we all know such photos. They arouse our curiosity by showing s…

© 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…

Face au drame ukrainien avec mon ami Alain Lefebvre, nous avons voulu participer à l’élan de solidarité en affrétant un véhicule utilitaire pour acheminer de l’aide d’urgence à la frontière Slovaque. Retour sur cette mission humanitaire pleine d’imprévus.

[EN] Jan, 10th, 2018 Meanwhile the mainboard and the CPU in my actual desktop PC are 6 years old. Time to think about an upgrade, the more so as the AMD APU (A6-3650) does not support high resolution monitors and with every new release of Lightroom or Photoshop everything becomes slower. And it should be an AMD CPU again, because the intel world is totally alien to me. Since I wanted to keep my 16 GB DDR3 RAM for cost reasons (latest technology DDR4 RAM would cost me an additional 200…

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…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! Our COVID-19 Help Offer has triggered a great movement of solidarity. To this point we received 48 donations*) with a total volume of 1,692 EUR. After deducting money transaction fees of 58 EUR, a net amount of 1,634 EUR is available for financial help. ▶️ Help can be granted for subscription renewals that are becoming due, up to no more than 30 days in advance. ▶️ The prerequisite is a financial emergency as a result of th…

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…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! For the final realization of the Basic subscription and the Trial subscription (see: summary of subscription options ), it was necessary to adjust the existing booking and payment processes accordingly. All these options are now fully implemented, tested and active . The following applies: 1) A new subscription can only be booked by holders of a Guest account. 2) First of all, only the 3-month free Trial Standard subscription can…

[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…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) Lately there has been a proliferation of copyrighted third party content presented as own creation. Please be reminded, the Terms of Service prohibit the use of content that violates copyright protections. To protect the best interests of our website and photographers, IMA reserves the right to delete content found to be in violation of copyright laws with or without prior notice. To avoid this inconvenience or embarrassment we strongly rec…

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…

Currently on ipernity 'Photos' pages the following notice is shown on right margin: "It is recommended to have GPS data in the meta data (EXIF) of the images before the initial upload." The reason why this recommendation is given is that the Google Maps quota may become exceeded easily if many users search and use it get geolocation for already uploaded images. To avoid this it would help if more people would start to define geolocation before uploading the images. How to do that d…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) In order to make the payment procedure simpler, Rob has further revised and simplified the subscription page . 2) The new FAQ is now also available online in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. The Dutch version is still under development. Use the Help & Contact link in the footer. 3) With the help of our IT service provider Qwellcode, we have succeeded in removing the dormant contents of long deleted accounts fr…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) Our first online General Assembly was a success. As per the statutes, we make the minutes of that meeting available, and choose to make them public, and not restricted to club members. For archive purposes a complete sequence of screen captures of the comments in the discussion was saved in a PDF file which can only be opened by club members. However, the Welcome! discussion can be viewed by all. 2) The subscription page has b…

[FR] Aide à renouveler ipernity ! ./. [DE] Helft ipernity zu erneuern! ./. Dear free user of ipernity, The ipernity website you are currently using was developed between 2009 and 2013. Meanwhile it is ten years old in terms of concept and technology. After 2013, it has grown organically and now consists of more than 21,000 networked html files. Operational reliability is declining steadily. The necessary adaptations to the state of the art are becoming increasingly difficult and…

Sehr geehrte ipernity-Nutzerin, Sehr geehrter ipernity-Nutzer, Die ipernity-Webseite, die Sie derzeit nutzen, wurde zwischen 2009 und 2013 entwickelt. Konzeption und Technologie sind inzwischen zehn Jahre alt. Nach 2013 ist die Webseite organisch weiter gewachsen. Sie besteht inzwischen aus mehr als 21.000 vernetzten html-Dateien. Die Betriebssicherheit nimmt zusehends ab. Die notwendigen Anpassungen an den Stand der Technik werden immer schwieriger und teurer. Es ist deshalb unausweichli…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity 1) We have heard your urgent wish to specify the reprogramming of our website in more details! A corresponding elaboration will be presented to you in the next Newsflash on March 01, 2019. 2) Furthermore, we would like to fulfill the repeatedly expressed wish not to limit our request for financial support of the project to a 5-year offer. We have calculated shorter running possibilities, which we will offer you today in addition and will also s…