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Having taken operational control of the site it is now time for some strategic considerations and decisions.

[EN] Dear members! 1) Certainly many of you have seen already, that the new subscription periods (6 and 12 months) are as well online, as the new IMA prices for the club subscriptions. As soon as we have checked the operational capability completely – particularly with regard to credit card payments – we will give the formal go-ahead for your renewals or subscriptions. 2) We are very pleased, that our efforts to reactivate "Explore" were a complete success. Furthermore we are do…

Immer wieder taucht die Frage auf, wie man ein PiP (Picture in a Picture) macht. Dies möchte ich erklären mit einem Bild, in das zwei PiP eingefügt werden sollen. Die PiP sollen außerdem von anderen Ip-Mitgliedern nur als PiP gesehen werden, und nicht in der Galerie. Man geht so vor: Das Hauptbild und die beiden anderen, die als PiP eingefügt werden sollen, lädt man auf die Ip-Seite. Die künftigen PiP-Bilder werden jetzt nur für den Besitzer sichtbar gemacht durch jeweils Anklicken, so das…

When my brother, Don called me to let me know the temperature in NYC had dropped to –1º F, I had just left church with plans to take a few local photographs. Prior to mass, I had documented a pair of blooming dandelions and several crocuses in the –3º F cold in my neighborhood. Knowing that the temperature had fallen below zero F only a handful of times in NYC during my life (this was only the 7th time to be exact) and it hadn’t done so for a record drought of 22+ years, I decided to race to…

No doubt most of us from pre-digital days have collections of slides and/or negatives, waiting to receive a new digital rendering. I have been asked what process I use to copy these slides and negatives: here's a short summary of what I do and why I do things this way. Over the years I have owned a couple of dedicated slide/film scanners and, frankly, I was never totally satisfied with the results from them. One of the characteristics of the old slide film, particularly Kodak, was that it w…