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The IMA have launched CROWDFUNDING ... www.generosity.com/community-fundraising/ipernity-members-association-a-non-profit-entity With a target of $25,000 in "two weeks" - this is to secure the platform whilst the takeover project is planned and achieved. March 2017 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Things have moved on ..... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ADDED - new article from Team Ipernity - 10th January 2017 www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4646844 "New Perspectives" quote snipped…

Update posted by William Sutherland for 27 April 2017: Mr. Christophe Ruelle signed off on the letter of intent confirming his acceptance of IMA's proposal. A copy of this document can be found on the IMA website at: ipernityma.wixsite.com/ipernityma/formal-proposal ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Official from Christophe, all we are waiting for now is signed papers ... www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4659568 Blog post c2030 BST on 26th April 2017 ... 24 hours later - E2A - unfortunat…

My total vists were 182,001 around about 21:25 on 30th May 2024, which is close enough to being right "on the nose" ... The start of metereological summer is 1st June 2024 ! Much better weather here in the last few days, with greater amounts of sunshine, much less cloud / rain, and therefore warmer temperatures. I am sure the local sheep and farmers appreciate the improvement, my garden certainly seems to do so - and I've needed to do several grass cutting sessions. NOTE : Now on BST from 02:00 on 31st March 2024 - so hopefully some sunshine and dry weather cometh ... GMT returns on 27th October 2024, with Samhain, bonfires and winter to follow ... Many Thanks for visiting ! as I really do appreciate all the various interactions with my images, especially the comments & favourites. I'm hoping to be more interactive with other people's images etc in 2024, as well as deal with most of my own image backlog in the next few months. Obviously, the newest albums have the least number of views - currently they are on page 12 of most viewed albums. I have been keeping up with my uploads, with various visits to places of interest featuring quite strongly but the vast majority are still "Private" as I have been busy in the garden and with a range of administration & other activities ... I have caught up with the last of the backdated items in the Cobid-19 album. Also, I am still working away with more of the various backdated images, and I have found some more "missing" images ... this has meant creating more new albums, for those that didn't fit into the existing albums; as well as adding titles, captions and keywords to the actual images. Final stage is unlocking them and adding some to groups. Mostly, I have "tagged" the albums I am working on with *New*,*updated*,*WiP* and *done* as needed, these will stay for a week or three, depending on the status. For my ease of access, I sometimes add the albums I am currently working with into my favourites, so the contents of the "favourite" banner on my album home page may get changed periodically. Currently, SRR have hree vehicles as two new jobs for 2022, their *NEW* albums appeared recently. Backdated coverage is for :- NSR23, MSR62 & 63, plus two ex-Corris vehicles now on the Talyllyn. Also, various "holiday snaps" and visits to places of interest & gala type events. I still have several hundred images to process, and a further backlog of images to upload ... Please stay safe and healthy - keep indoors or follow social distancing rules if you must make an essential trip outside. Wash hands or sanitise them frequently. Cover face - Wear a mask over your nose and mouth when required, please, for not only your own protection but also for others. Make Space ; Stay at least the minimum distances apart (for me, in the UK that is 2m) Ventilation - make sure there is plenty of fresh air That means there have been an average of 1,000 interactions with my photostream each month, so very many thanks to all the visitors and for all the comments and yellow stars. Apologies, all this has been delayed as I have been concentrating on my garden rebuilding project and writing tender documentation. Although I have been doing a lot more of my administration work at home since March 2020. Luckily, I have avoided catching the plague, so far.

Originally........ ~~~I had a paid account on fotopic and when that disappeared into the ether in March 2011 ....... ~~~ I restarted at flickr (having looked at various other image hosting sites) where I had a "pro" account; after the "improvements" on 20th May 2013 and realising that I needed something better............... ~~~ I moved to here, liked what I found; so I have just paid my subscription to "Club Ipernity" and migrated over my images. Now - all I have to do is to re-sort into al…

Another Latest Newsflash from the ima. [EN] version C&P from www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4690900 Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) We apologize that ipernity was temporarily unavailable last Saturday. A recently requested renewal of the website security certificate had not been executed technically. Resolving this problem in the early hours of a Saturday was a big challenge for the team but we succeeded and downtime was minimized. With regard to another dysfunction (concerning t…

William Sutherland posted an article in the IMA Project Group on 11th July 2017. www.ipernity.com/group/2260604/discuss/187672 C&P in full .... Dear members, We are absolutely delighted to share with you that the legal basis of our IMA goal to take the Ipernity platform over is achieved: Ipernity S.A. (represented by Christophe Ruelle) and IMA (represented by Eric Desjours) signed the contract regarding the transfer of the Ipernity platform, the underlying intellectual property and as…

C&P from IMA Project Group, originally posted by William Sutherland. Also posted in Ip Blog here :- www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4675826 IMA Announcement - 1st September 2017 [EN] Dear Members, We are thrilled to announce that we are about to take the last steps of IMA's take-over of the Ipernity platform and service. IMA is now handling the financial aspects of the site. IMA made the first payment to Amazon Web Services for August and will continue to pay the operating costs…

Updated to record the 90,000 visit milestone about 2300 (GMT) on 1st November 2018. 89,000 visits about 1200 (BST) on 8th October 2018. 88,000 visits approx. 8th of September 2018. 87,000 visits about 1300 (BST) on 19th August 2018 86,000 visits by early morning on 26th July 2018. 85,000 visit milestone was passed on the 1st of July 2018 (approx.) 84,000 visits were sometime during the first week in June 2018 83,003 visits just after 0745 on 12th May 2018. 82,000 visits just after 0900 on 17th April 2018. 81,000 visits just before 0930 on 24th March 2018, 80,000 visits around 13:30 on 2nd March 2018, 79,000 visits sometime during 9th February 2018, 78,000 visits around 13:30 GMT on 18th January 2018, 77,000 visits at about 11:00 GMT on 28th December 2017, 75,000 visits to my pages around 08:25 GMT on 15th November 2017. Very many thanks to all my visitors, especially for all the comments and favourites. There is an major update in progress (working in batches ) ... Still playing catch-up with 2017 images, some 2018 images are sneaking into the photostream.

Updates on Pam ( latest - 27th September 2018) lifted from IMA thread, posted by Chris & Peggy - see comments.

The full article in [FR] and [DE] is here ... www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4710588 [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1. Pam's recovery is gradually progressing. Periodical information can be found at Clickity Click www.ipernity.com/home/christine.bentley . 2. On Monday, Oct. 15. 2018, our returnee offer ends. So far it has been accepted by 139 users. More than 277,500 documents are now publicly visible again. The additional contribution margin is 3,543 EUR. Less the mailing c…

In the wee small hours of 7th January 2019, my wonderful father died. May his katra Rest In Peace. ~~~~ Birthday memories ... 23rd March 2024 - where have the past five years gone ? they went past in what seems to have been a brief flash, on waking this morning I didn't feel quite as bereft as I usually do at this time of year. Sleep well Patro, I miss you ! e2aa - Somewhat similar to what happened last year, four years seems to have passed in a brief flash and this morning I felt the loss very keenly. E2A - This morning I awoke to feelings that the last three years seem like yesterday, not that I slept particularly well. [This is a very personal sense of loss and I am not decrying all the suffering and deaths from the pandemic, quite the opposite] I typed my first version of this before dawn on 7th Jan 2022, deleted it and tried again. It would have been his 103rd birthday on 23rd March 2022 (1919 to 2019) and I doubt he would have managed to get to 104 [23rd March 2023] ... Father's Day in the UK on 18th June 2023. Always a sad day, I miss the opportunity to send himself some bad esperanto in an humourous card. ~~~~ this links to an image www.ipernity.com/doc/312383/47955110 in my photos entitled "CAS - esperantist" (which was in the Ipernity Frontpage and What's Hot group on 3rd March 2019)

c&p IMA NEWSFLASH 15th September 2017 from Team Ipernity Blog and IMA Project Group ... [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, tha…

Announcement regarding payments ... [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! Some of you may have noticed that membership renewals via Skrill are not possible any more. We tried everything to keep this payment option. However on 3 January 2018 Skrill made the decision to terminate services with IMA without notice or reason. We believe the decision was made because of volume requirements. It is common that other customers of Skrill suffered the same inconveniences. We are now explor…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! Today we may present the new ipernity homepage for testing. We thank all those who have contributed to its realisation. Above all, we would like to thank the photographers who contributed the pictorial material. The entire collection can be seen here: www.ipernity.com/doc/team/album/1049798 During activation, there may be brief interruptions or slowdowns in operation tonight. We ask for your understanding and wish you a happy Easter! Your…

As Posted by Sami Serola on 4th June 2017. IMA News 4 June 2017 Please share | Partagez ce message s'il vous plait | Bitte teilen = EN = Dear Users, It is estimated IMA will take over the Ipernity platform legally between the end of June 2017 to the end of August 2017. The end of August 2017 is more likely since Ipernity S.A. needs to be delisted from Euronext. Based on the administrator’s statement, he sees no objection to IMA’s takeover and indicates the probability of search…

www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4737428 . Be a part of shaping ipernity's future! . Please read this article on the Team blog [28th January 2022].

Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) After having weighed all requests for changes made by the Community with regard to the new ipernity tariff structure, today we present you a revised proposal. It is intended to make this structure official by November 30, 2018, after a final fine-tuning, if necessary, so that Flickr and Google+ users who are willing to move will be able to find out what to expect from ipernity. [Chart - which can be found here :- https://www.ipernity.com/blog/…

A very close friend has just lost her 92 year old mother to kidney failure, about 0400 on Friday 13th April 2018. I may or may not be on-line for the next few days, as I will be travelling around and otherwise occupied. {Too soon for a funeral date, but sometime in the next two to three weeks, I expect.} updated - the Funeral will be on the morning of Monday, 30th April 2018.

Just the [EN] version of the latest IMA Newsflash; the French & German versions are be found here :- www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4693794 Dear members and friends of ipernity! Since the last newsflash on 26 January 2018 the topics of copyright and intellectual property policies have arisen. As a friendly reminder to all, based on Section 6 of the Terms of Service (TOS), ima/ipernity honors copyright, trademark, and intellectual property protection requirements as stipulated under French l…

Sunday 21st July 2013 - I have just begun adding over 70 images, mostly of recent work and events. These will become visible gradually; as I complete their descriptions, tags/keywords and sort them into albums etc, over the next few hours. As I need to re-take a couple and there are some of the newest progress on NSR127 to capture, this is a bit of a work in progress. Completed just before 2200 BST.....in between various other tasks, been very busy today..... . Please enjoy looking at what has…