Dear members and friends of ipernity!
1) The new multi-year subscription options are now implemented in the ipernity subscription page. The payment process is now very simple in this respect. There are fewer possibilities for errors, the accounting is relieved.
2) The recalculated contributions for an ipernity standard subscription vary between 3.98 Euro per month (six monthly payment method) and 2.93 Euro per month (five-year payment method) [detailed breakdown]. From our point of view, the discount on long-term payments is not a special offer, but an act of fairness. A long-term commitment on your part enables us to conclude cost-effective long-term contracts with the Amazon Web Service with a good conscience. Everyone benefits from this. Through the bonus, we give back some of the benefit to those who make this possible.
3) Due to the influx of former members of the "stern" VIEW Fotocommunity, the ima team discussed the genre "Erotic Photography" in its last meeting. Because in the German weekly magazine "stern" erotic photography is something quite normal. We know that the founders of ipernity had different ideals and visions. As a result, many good photographers have left ipernity over the years. We can't undo this. But we want to allow the "freedom of art", which has constitutional status in most Western countries, an appropriate scope at ipernity as well. Under the administration of the ima team, an abandoned ipernity group with Erotic Photography was revitalized. We invite you to give your honest feedback to the courageous photographers who publish there.
4) It's now autumn with many colourful outdoor motifs which fill our hearts with a special mood. Therefore we would like to ask all members, who feel like it, to shoot some new seasonal pictures for our homepage. Please note the special requirements to the format and the picture composition! Remember: Good advertising photos don't have to please photographers - they have to attract the attention of fleeting viewers. We are looking forward to your photos, preferably ready edited in the right format!
Your IMA team
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Chers membres et amis d'ipernity !
1) Les nouvelles options d'abonnement pluriannuel ont été implémentées dans la page d'abonnement ipernity. Le processus de paiement est maintenant très simple à cet égard. Il y a moins de risques d'erreurs, et la comptabilité en est allégée.
2) Les coûts actualisés pour un abonnement Standard varient entre 3,98 euros par mois (abonnement à six mois) et 2,93 euros par mois (abonnement à cinq ans) [échelonnement détaillé]. De notre point de vue, les bonus associés aux paiements à long terme ne sont pas une offre spéciale mais plutôt un acte d'équité. C'est un engagement à long terme de votre part qui nous permet de conclure des contrats à long terme plus rentables avec Amazon Web Service, en toute confiance. Tout le monde en profite. Via ces bonus, nous redonnons donc simplement une partie des bénéfices à ceux qui rendent cela possible.
3) En raison de l'afflux d'anciens membres de "stern" VIEW Fotocommunity, l'équipe ima a mis à l'ordre du jour de sa dernière réunion mensuelle le thème de la "Photographie Erotique". Car dans l'hebdomadaire allemand "stern", entre autres et en particulier, la photographie érotique est quelque chose de tout à fait usuelle. Nous savons que les fondateurs d'ipernity avaient des idéaux et des visions différents. En conséquence de quoi beaucoup de bons photographes ont quitté ipernity au fil des ans. On ne peut pas revenir en arrière, mais nous voulons offrir à la "liberté de l'art", qui a un statut constitutionnel dans la plupart des pays occidentaux, un champ d'application digne de ce nom au sein d'ipernity également. Sous l'administration de l'équipe ima, un groupe d'ipernity dédié à la photographique érotique a été revitalisé. Nous vous invitons à donner votre avis franc et honnête aux courageux photographes qui y publient.
4) C'est maintenant l'automne et ses nombreux motifs généreusement colorés, berçant nos coeurs d’une langueur monotone. Nous demandons donc aux membres qui le souhaitent de prendre et/ou de présenter de nouvelles photos saisonnières pour notre page d'accueil. Veuillez tenir compte des exigences particulières du format et de la composition de l'image ! Et souvenez-vous : les meilleures photos publicitaires n'ont pas besoin de plaire aux photographes ! Elles doivent d'abord attirer l'attention des visiteurs éphémères. Nous attendons avec impatience vos photos, de préférence - bien sûr - déjà présentées dans le bon format !
Votre équipe ima
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Liebe Mitglieder und Freunde von ipernity!
1) Die neuen mehrjährigen Buchungsoptionen sind inzwischen in die ipernity-Bezahlseite implementiert. Der Bezahlvorgang ist jetzt in dieser Hinsicht sehr einfach. Es gibt weniger Fehlermöglichkeiten, die Buchhaltung ist entlastet.
2) Die umgerechneten Kosten für ein ipernity-Standard Abonnement variieren zwischen 3,98 Euro monatlich (halbjährliche Zahlweise) und 2,93 Euro monatlich (fünfjährige Zahlweise) [genaue Aufschlüsselung]. Aus unserer Sicht ist diese Reduzierung bei langfristiger Zahlweise kein Sonderangebot, sondern ein Akt der Gerechtigkeit. Eine langfristige Festlegung eurerseits ermöglicht uns nämlich, guten Gewissens kostengünstige langfristige Verträge mit dem Amazon Web Service abzuschließen. Davon profitieren alle. Über den Rabatt geben wir Jenen, die dies ermöglichen, etwas von dem Vorteil zurück.
3) Wegen des Zustroms ehemaliger Mitgliedern der “stern” VIEW-Fotocommunity hat sich das ima-Team in seiner letzten Sitzung mit dem Genre “Erotische Fotografie” befasst. Denn im deutschen Wochenmagazin “stern” ist erotische Fotografie etwas ganz Normales. Wir wissen, dass dieses Genre bei den Gründern von ipernity wenig beliebt war. Sie hatten andere Ideale und Visionen. Als Folge haben viele gute Fotografen ipernity im Laufe der Jahre wieder verlassen. Wir können dies nicht ungeschehen machen. Wir wollen jedoch der “Freiheit der Kunst”, die in den meisten westlichen Ländern Verfassungsrang hat, auch bei ipernity einen angemessenen Raum geben. Unter Administration des ima-Teams wurde deshalb eine verlassene ipernity-Gruppe “Erotische Fotografie” wiederbelebt. Wir laden euch ein, den mutigen Fotografinnen und Fotografen, die dort veröffentlichen, euer ehrliches Feedback zu geben.
4) Unübersehbar ist es inzwischen Herbst mit vielen bunten Outdoor-Motiven die unsere Herzen mit einer besonderen Stimmung erfüllen. Wir möchten deshalb alle Mitglieder, die Lust dazu verspüren, bitten, wieder spezielle jahreszeitliche Bilder für die Startseite zu schießen. Bitte beachtet die speziellen Anforderungen an das Format und den Bildaufbau. Denkt daran: Gute Werbefotos müssen nicht den Fotografen gefallen, sondern die Aufmerksamkeit flüchtiger Betrachter in den Bann ziehen. Wir freuen uns auf eure Fotos, am liebsten fix und fertig bearbeitet im richtigen Format!
Euer IMA-Team
Please be aware, architecture as well as museums often have very graphic works that young children are exposed to as my article shows.
Also, Frank, as an fyi, I'm a Eucharistic Minister at my local Catholic Church and find no conflict with this responsibility as well as ethics and morality when supporting artistic expression that is legal -- for example the images displayed in the "Erotic Photography" group.
And yes the effort is worth it since we volunteer our time and it costs nothing to carry it out.
Human body is beautiful, young and old, man and female...
Human body can by photographed artistically and such shots can be pure joy for eyes.
Provided that models are treated respectfully.
Unfortunately the very word 'erotica' implies the goal of erotically stimulating or sexually arousing prospective viewers. Models are objectified to serve this goal.
That's what I do not like. Not at all.
'erotica' is intimate. Intimate things should be kept private.
I have no problem with nudes. One of my favorite artists here publishes nude shots and some of them are remarkable.
So eventually for me the distinction between nude and erotica goes with intent.
And intent is everything.
Authors subscribing to the 'erotica' genre advertise their intent, isn't it so?
I am not OK with erotica.
Can't we stick with nudes and see how it goes?
I have much experience with erotica and it's effects on humanity. Firstly, not too long ago I was the moderator for thousands of groups and their administrators on the worlds largest art site. A few of the groups were for nudes, and others for erotica. I was part of instilling that in these groups what is acceptable and what isn't, and what can be shared on the front page of the groups - and getting rid of the porn. The owner of the website decided to go with the erotica as long as there was no genitalia visible. And the only reason this happened is because of the pushing of the boundaries by the creators. So I left my position as groups moderator ...
I'm still on that art site, and because they offer my own website attached to my profile, anyone who comes to my site will not be distracted by this content. Otherwise I would leave the site.
I'm glad you shared about your faith, and how we are Catholic Brothers. For almost two decades now, I have been co-founder of a Catholic men's apostolate for a Chicago bishop. I have lost count by the number of men (thousands) who have been overcome by the effects of erotica photography (soft porn). Women are now being affected as well. Short of the long, if you've not heard of Matt Fradd look him up.
When I came to ipernity the first thing I did is to look up the nudes and erotica, and found it was not that active. But now it seems it has full endorsement from the IMA Team. People say that this can't be censored for freedom sake. But if it is under tight watch like it is, isn't that a form of censoring and lack of freedom? Most of the images on ipernity enjoy true freedom without the tight watch that I have seen recently with erotic photography. True freedom to me is not about doing what you want, rather having the ability to do the right thing. Now we have a group who wants to take the nudes and push the boundaries to erotica which causes this thread ... and my experience tells me this will burden the community until it goes away.
More importantly, when you take part in erotica photography then you are causing the eyes of others to sin (sin is doing what we want without God). As a Catholic I don't want that on my hands. When I look at these women all I see is another man's daughter, and wonder if her father knows she did this.
Erotica photography is very destructive, to the point that the new owners of Tumblr say it's not coming back. That there are many other sites to share erotica (soft porn) and porn, so go there. It turns a person photographed into an object of desire, especially women, and not a person with value the way God sees them. Life is God's gift to us, and how we live it is our gift back to Him.
As Marta says, nudes are fine, but erotica is too controversial so I say tell them to go to Flickr. Yes, we see nudes in the Sistine Chapel, but they are not taking part in erotica.
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