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[EN] Hello everyone, As we noted in our previous article we are willing to deploy ipernity on social networks starting with Facebook . To do this, we need you ! We created a group to give you the opportunity to share your photos with us. However, there are some rules : The share button must be enabled: check your settings HERE Format: ideally 1024 x 768 pixels; landscape; square No frame (or as thin as possible) Recent or popular images Ideally licensed CC No graphi…

If you're like most people on this site, I suspect you take a few thousand photos yearly. I know I do. I'll be honest, a great many of mine are hardly worthy of a second look, but they accumulate in my computer's hard disk. Maybe a hundred or so yearly warrant that second look. Some, though even fewer, deserve 'historical retention' (for want of a better term). Let's work on the thought that the image of a great sunset, general landscape or flower isn't going to have 'historical retent…

Sometimes photographs give an hallucinated look to the city and we have to learn to keep the lucidity dipped in an sudden and intense unreasonable moonlight that invades our privacy. /// Parfois les photos donnent un air halluciné à la ville et nous avons d'apprendre à garder la lucidité plongée dans un déraisonnable soudain et intense clair de lune qui envahit notre vie privée. /// Por vezes as fotografias dão um ar alucinado à cidade e temos que aprender a manter a lucidez merg…

Je fais partie de ceux qui ont fuit flickr en 2013 pour venir s'installer ici, étant arrivé à la conclusion qu'Ipernity était la meilleur alternative possible sur le marché des sites de partage de photos. Cependant, aujourd'hui, en 2015, j'ai l'impression qu'Ipernity ne fonctionne plus aussi bien qu'avant. Depuis le début de l'année, suite la migration dans le cloud, deux articles seulement ont été publiés par l'équipe, et aucun des membres de cette équipe, à l'exception de Julian, n'a publié…

In 1878, Carl Sandburg wrote: The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. Nearly 140 years later on April 3, 2015, Sandburg’s descriptive poem transcended the paper on which it was written. The words leapt off the pages and a thick blanket of fog rolled across the Long Island Sound on “little cat feet.” For a time, it sat over the water, shrouding Long Island and also the landscape across Larchmont Harbor in…

I probably couldn't articulate why this editorial disturbs me — and why now, when it contains so little that we haven't already sensed about the direction of things. But it does. "Some argue that compact cameras aren’t selling because smartphones take such good images now that there’s no need to carry a dedicated camera anymore — and that’s partially true. "But there’s another force at play here, too: Smartphones have fundamentally changed why we take photographs. "Photographs used to b…

I'd planned a relaxing day with some time for photographic pursuits. After going walking with our dog I wandered off for a brief look at ipernity. Not more than half an hour later, I wandered back through the house and found myself standing in water - warm water! A quick investigation of the source led me to the hot water plumbing connection under the handbasin in the bathroom. It had failed in a big way, with water blasting out. I turned off the hot water system and mains water an…

On the evening of July 23, I lost my beloved dad. During the closing weeks of his life, he demonstrated the kind of dignity, courage, and love that only made him even dearer to us, his children. Even into his final days, he would not let the advancing cancer temper his joy of seeing his children and grandchildren. Although his very youngest grandchildren could not comprehend the situation and behaved as toddlers and infants typically conduct themselves, they still brought a smile to his face.…

I DO NOT KNOW IF WHAT I SEE IS LIGHT OR DARKNESS NOT EVEN IF THE INDEFINITE AND OBSCURE OUTLINE OF THE HORIZON WITHIN MY REACH IS THE THRESHOLD BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH NÃO SEI SE O QUE VEJO É LUZ OU ESCURIDÃO NEM SEQUER SE O CONTORNO INDEFINIDO E OBSCURO DO HORIZONTE AO MEU ALCANCE É O LIMIAR ENTRE A VIDA E A MORTE by Armando TABORDA, 2014 (1st edition, 2014; 2nd edition, 2016)

I feel the sun in the wrinkles of my hands empty of light the shadows are on the fingers rings sparkling the morning. Sinto o sol nas rugas de minhas mãos vazias de luz as sombras são nos dedos anéis que refulgem manhã. by Armado TABORDA, in "PALAVRAS, MÚSICAS E BLASFÉMIAS QUE EN…

The Man is to God as the machine is to Man. If the refrigerator does not know how cold produces for the benefit of Man Man does not know what makes for profit of God. /// O Homem está para Deus como a máquina para o Homem. Se o frigorífico não sabe do frio que produz em proveito do Homem também o Homem não sabe o que faz a favor de Deus. by Armando TABORDA, in "PALAVRAS, MÚSICAS E BLASFÉMIAS QUE ENVELHEÇO NA CIDADE", Ulmeiro Editores, 1996 (post1st edition, 2014; 2nd edit…

The Monarchs and hummingbirds have now departed for warmer climes leaving a kind of sad emptiness in their wake. Despite beauty worthy of a seat in First Class on any of the world’s leading airlines, these elegant insects and remarkable birds must instead undertake their lengthy and perilous journey all on their own. Along the way, they will battle storms, predators, fatigue, and many other challenges. Nevertheless, through heroic persistence and iron-clad determination that would make any triat…