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Artificial Intelligence (AI) can serve as a creative partner that helps people turn personal photographs, ideas, and preferences into polished stationery, notecards, thank-you cards, and other paper goods. A person provides the meaning and direction: the photographs to use, the occasion, the desired mood, the wording, and the details that must remain unchanged. AI can then assist with composition, typography, color coordination, image fading, cropping, spacing, and print-safe placement. It can q…

Die erstaunliche Welt des PLONK Die erstaunliche Welt des PLONK Folge: PLONK lernt Blumensprache (Die Küche versinkt im Mohnblumen-Chaos. Plonk grinst.) KAY: Warum hängen hier siebenunddreißig Blumenbilder? PLONK: Ich lerne jetzt Blumensprache. KI: Zur Klarstellung: Die Blumensprache ist eine historische Symbolsprache des 19. Jahrhunderts. Bestimmte Blumen standen for Gefühle oder Botschaften. PLONK: Ge…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing photography from a process centered mainly on capturing an image into one that also includes intelligent reconstruction, refinement, interpretation, and creative transformation. AI tools can reduce noise, restore damaged photographs, correct lighting, remove distractions, expand backgrounds, improve resolution, and combine images in ways that once required advanced technical skill. AI has expanded creative possibilities. These possibilities include pan…

Every Wednesday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art closes its great doors to the crowds of New York City’s Fifth Avenue. Without footsteps, whispers, or the glow of raised smartphones, the museum seems larger and older. Its corridors stretch endlessly into shadows, its rooms hold their breath, and the painted faces along the walls watch the empty halls with a patience that borders on hunger. During much of the day, conservators roll priceless canvases through hidden passageways, repair fracture…

Help keep our association going. Join the ima team as an Executive assistant. Our current treasurer, Corinne, will be stepping down in less than a year. We are looking for someone to become an executive assistant to Corinne. Are you a Club Member with a love for ipernity? WE NEED YOU! Becoming an assistant to Corinne will also allow you to learn exactly what it means to be our treasurer and for you to consider whether you would like to stand for treasurer next year. Wh…

Museums tell stories that collapse the distance between past and present. Within a single room, centuries can stand side by side. A weathered artifact, a painted face, a fragment of text, or a carefully preserved object can carry visitors into worlds that no longer exist but still speak with remarkable force. Museums compress time by allowing people to move through history not as an abstract sequence of dates, but as a lived human experience. They create encounters between rich stories and t…

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both… The opening lines of Robert Frost’s “ The Road Not Taken ” endure because they capture three of the oldest and most powerful realities of human life: uncertainty, choice, and consequence. Long before writing, the printing press, or the instant communication of the Internet Age, people faced diverging paths and imperfect knowledge. The future has always been partly hidden. What is different now is the speed, scale, and…

Technological innovation occurs at the confluence of knowledge and imagination. Technology then shrinks, merges, and often reappears inside something more powerful. Devices that once dominated homes, offices, and studios fade when their functions are absorbed by smaller, cheaper, more capable systems. Television moved from bulky furniture built around broadcast programming to thin, networked screens connected to streaming, gaming, video calls, apps, and on-demand entertainment. Computers foll…

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TW: Kann erotische Gefühle auslösen. TW: May trigger erotic feelings. TW: Peut provoquer des émotions érotiques. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Als wäre sie das Einzige… Die Küche, Kaffeeduft. Sie steht am Herd — barfuß, die Haare noch ungebändigt. Durch das hohe Fenster sieht…

The next Level: Wie kann Ipernity die Arbeiten von Fotografen für die Zukunft schützen und fördern? DE How can Ipernity protect and support photographers’ work in the future? EN Es reicht nicht mehr, gegen KI zu sein. Wenn Fotografie keinen eigenen Raum mehr bekommt, verschwindet sie – nicht durch Technologie, sondern durch Gleichgültigkeit. **Wie kann Ipernity die Arbeiten von Fotografen für die Zukunft schützen und fördern?** Die Frage nach dem Schutz fotografischer Arb…

Lilith You sit there. Coffee in your hand, you want to smoke, because it’s supposed to help with the restlessness, but you know that isn’t true. Quietly you look through your window at the night, star-clear and cold. In the corner of the room lies something. Something you don’t want to look at. Something you could ignore. But don’t want to. But you don’t move. Because you know: What lies there belongs to you. And you want to keep it. Even if it is wrong. Even if it poisons yo…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, Happy New Year! Let's work together to have a joyful and healthy 2026. 1) Images suggested for groups. We would love to hear from the membership with any thoughts and ideas on the initial roll-out of the following revision. With the effort to clean up groups, it has been noted that groups often have images that do not fit the group's theme/topic. This is more prevalent in groups where images are added without being checked by an administrato…

Claude und ich arbeiten seit einiger Zeit zusammen. An Texten, Ideen, kreativen Projekten. Und dann stellte ich die verrückte Frage: "Was würdest du ChatGPT über uns erzählen?" Die Antwort hat mich zum Lachen gebracht – und berührt.

A warm welcome to our newest club members! Please visit their pages to personally welcome them and see what they bring to our community. Rolf Mahler ← publicly active Andre ← publicly active Jan Stojak ← publicly active Wild_Maddin ← publicly active Tiny Island ← publicly active Gerold ← publicly active Newell Reinvention ← publicly active dacapo ← publicly active Lucien Horne ← publicly active

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Photon festival. We have started an experiment. From September 5 to 7, 2025, we had a booth at the PHOTON Photography Festival in Illingen / Saar, Germany, where we promoted Ipernity. Thanks to Bernhard (Bergfex), who traveled from Austria especially for this event, we were able to talk to visitors at the festival and raise awareness of Ipernity. We'll have to wait and see if this will be reflected in the membership numbers. We also l…

The Ipernity platform functions much like a great rainforest. Each night, shortly after midnight, the servers clear, the systems refresh, and the site hums with renewed energy. In these early hours, Ipernity runs fast and clean, like dry air beginning to gather moisture. As users upload photos, exchange likes, and leave comments, they saturate the digital atmosphere with activity. Gradually, as the hours pass, this accumulated load begins to weigh heavy. Latency creeps in like rising humidi…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Interruptions to our website. As many of you know, we have been suffering recently from slow response times to actual failure to load a page. When this happens to you, please be patient and wait a minute or two before trying to refresh the page, because the site is not offline, just overloaded. This is due to high demand on our system from outside. This has also been causing other types of issues including interruption of daily news emails an…

God has created the Universe the Universe has created Man Man has created the Machine the Universe expands itself infinitely and ignores God Man and the Machine Deus criou o Universo o Universo criou o Homem o Homem criou a Máquina o Universo expande-se infinitamente e ignora Deus o Homem e a Máquina by Armando TABORDA, 2016 (post 1st edition, 2016; 2nd edition, 2023; 3rd edition, 2025)

For a long time I would like to talk to you about a fabulous French artist, Agatha Ukeo, my friend, from my age group but as young as my grandchildren, because her creative mind is airy, colorful, and untimely. She invents characters that seem naïf but they aren't, that resemble comics but they aren't, that resemble fantastic realism and they are. They talk to us, meet the mythology of our dreams, fantasies, and fears. Fill us with pleasure and make us feel the irony and joy of living.…