Roberto Ballerini - traveling's articles

  • This is the end, my friends, this is the end ...

    - 7 years ago - 6 comments
    ... as The Doors sang. I'm here since 2007, escaping from Flickr censorship. Before the introduction of groups! ipernity saved my life, in a really dark period of my life. I still have contacts with the first friends I made here. Smiles, laughters, but also grief, for some friends we lost. I feel a big pain inside at the idea that all we built here will be soon a cloud of dissolving bits: it's like experiencing again the flood that three years ago destroyed a big part of my books, photos, v…

  • 190000+ visits

    - 11 Oct 2016
    I'm mostly inactive since mid-2012, but visits continue to sum up. It is a really interesting statistical phenomenon seeing how the group of users that gave birth to the community, escaping from Flickr, seems to still attract visits, while summing up "likes" seems simpler than in the past. Someone can explain it? I suppose the @Team could explain it looking at the connection graph.

  • Wolfgang, R.I.P.

    - 28 Jan 2015
    Really sorry to hear this. Wolfgang was one of the pioneers here on ipernity: http://www.ipernity.com/home/w.jorzik http://www.ipernity.com/blog/w.jorzik/813646 taz.de/In-Memoriam-Wolfgang-Jorzik/!153601/ https://www.facebook.com/papasterbenverboten/posts/609804365830776

  • 150,000 thanks

    - 05 Feb 2014 - 4 comments
    So much has changed from my first steps on ipernity, 6 yrs and a half ago. We were a little community of friends: now we're a big multi-ethnic city. Thank you very much for the 150,000+ page views of my almost abandoned stream! It's always a pleasure to wander through your photostreams and enjoy this variety of styles, idioms, cities and people!

  • Nomad

    - 06 Apr 2013 - 5 comments
    I came here 6 years ago, escaping from Flickr. I was living the worst crisis of my life. Photography and ipernity gave me support for re-taking contact with myself and my emotions. Now, when I'm sad or worried, taking shots and writing are second nature. I lost a big part of the technical knowledge that I learned from my friends, here, but I'm still deeply grateful to them. Having a full time job again, from almost 5 years, trasformed me from a monolith to a nomad. Photography helps me con…

  • Massimo, R.I.P.

    - 13 Sep 2011 - 5 comments
    I'm so sorry to inform you that one of the more talented photographers on Ipernity left us on 6th of September of a cardiac attack: Rest In Peace, Massimo http://www.ipernity.com/home/massimo http://www.ipernity.com/home/159662 http://www.ipernity.com/group/31612

  • What a little world!!!

    - 26 Aug 2011 - 5 comments
    Globalization: finding one of your shots in the website of a Company from Pakistan... From here: not exactly; from here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertoballerini/475782528/ to there: http://azizcorporation.com.pk/index-1.html

  • Buenos Aires

    - 16 Oct 2009
    from 5th to 9th of October

  • And the winner is...

    - 03 Sep 2009 - 1 comment
    ... ou, por mieux dire, la vainqueuse est:

  • Canon 7D

    - 01 Sep 2009 - 2 comments
    ...was showcased today...

  • In leave of absence (again...)

    - 04 Aug 2009 - 2 comments
    Dear friends, as someone of you noticed, my presence on ipernity is very limited. I'm ready to start my vacations: two weeks of mountain views, in Sudtirol, as always. Returning home, the work vortex will bring me to new highs: the Company I work for had a two-fold increase in turnover and I have to run thru Europe to make my share in this increase, promoting and presenting our solutions (please: don't be shy if you have contacts in gas distribution/transport companies! thank you! ;-) ).…

  • ITALIAN BLOGGERS STRIKE

    - 14 Jul 2009 - 1 comment
    On July 14, 2009, Italian bloggers will muzzle themselves in the Web as well as in Piazza Navona in Rome, at 7PM where they will meet to protest against an Italian government bill (the Alfano decree) introducing a number of new rules which will limit the freedom of expression in Italian internet. The so-called "obligation to rectify" imposed to the manager of an information site (blogs, social networks such as Facebook, Twitter etc) clearly appears to be a pretext. In fact such imposition,…

  • List of forthcoming trips...

    - 30 Jun 2009 - 4 comments
    ... because I' like to meet you during my travels...

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