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Result of the editorial team voting from June 2025: The number of submitters was 31 (previous month: 36). In accordance with the selection rules (maximum of one picture per submitter and month, 50% of which will be taken), 16 pictures could be included in the group. You will find them in the upper, light blue section of the results display above. In the middle blue section , you see 2 multiple submissions which the editorial team also considered promising, but which could not be included in the group because another picture by the same submitter was adopted. These picture is welcome to be submitted again. The lower, dark blue section contains all submissions that could not be included in the group. The editorial team thanks all submitters for their efforts. Also visit the group: ━ ► ipernity Ambassador Pictures

Result of the editorial team voting from May 2025: The number of submitters was 36 (previous month: 42). In accordance with the selection rules (maximum of one picture per submitter and month, 50% of which will be taken), 18 pictures could be included in the group. You will find them in the upper, light blue section of the results display above. In the middle blue section , you see 1 multiple submission which the editorial team also considered promising, but which could not be included in the group because another picture by the same submitter was adopted. These picture is welcome to be submitted again. The lower, dark blue section contains all submissions that could not be included in the group. The editorial team thanks all submitters for their efforts. Also visit the group: ━ ► ipernity Ambassador Pictures

Héléna-paule Fitoussi HelenaPF Our long time club member and daily ima board supporter as advisor, Héléna-paule Fitoussi, passed away without pain on July 23rd 2025. Below are words about her and her life, as well as some of her best loved and commented on images she shared with us here on ipernity. [Original French - English translation below the French] -------------- Héléna a grandi et étudié en Algérie, d'où elle a dû brutalement émigrer avec sa famille vers la France, à 26 ans en pleine guerre d'indépendance. Institutrice de profession, elle se passionne, en plus du chant choral où elle excelle, pour la photographie puis pour la peinture où elle développe une technique très originale et très remarquée. Sa production acharnée, en marge de sa profession, la conduit à exposer ses œuvres dans une galerie de Bordeaux en 2002. Un certain nombre de ses œuvres étaient visibles dans sa galerie ipernity. Sa technique lui provoque hélas, peu de temps après, un tennis elbow qui la contraint à arrêter définitivement son art. Sa fille Fabienne, qu'elle évoque souvent dans sa galerie ipernity, artiste elle-même et membre d'ipernity également, l'initie alors à l'art numérique par l'intermédiaire d'outils spécialisés. Héléna les adopte relativement vite et y trouve un nouveau moyen d'exprimer tout son talent ainsi que sa grande maîtrise des formes et des couleurs. Ses productions féériques, sensuelles et toujours empreintes d'une profonde poésie nous raviront au sein de ses galeries d'abord Facebook puis ipernity à partir de 2007, donc précocément. Des œuvres toujours accompagnées d'une générosité et d'une grande tendresse qui la caractérisent, ainsi que ses commentaires, et ont fait d'elle une membre appréciée de la communauté, attachante, fidèle et toujours avenante. Sur ipernity, chacun sait qu'elle fut une animatrice invétérée, passionnée et intransigeante d'innombrables groupes sur des thèmes aussi divers que la poésie, la peinture, le jazz et bien d'autres objets de l'art photographique et pictural. Elle a aussi tenu à participer à l'aventure IMA fin 2018 en participant à la modération quotidienne des photos ainsi qu'à la lutte anti-spam, pour tenter de remplacer notre chère amie Pam Johnson victime d'un AVC. Elle s'est acquittée de ces tâches, en collaboration avec l'équipe IMA, jusqu'à ce que la maladie l'en empêche, début juillet 2025. Elle n'a raté aucune assemblée générale de l'association depuis sa première occurrence en 2017. Nous pleurons une amie très chère, admirable, empreinte d'une passion et d'un amour débordants qui irriguèrent ses mots, ses actes et l'ensemble de son art. Nous attendons vos nombreux témoignages, vous qui l'avez bien connue et tant appréciée. Vos condoléances seront transmises à sa fille Fabienne. --- Ma vie comme désert de feu, mon âme en bas-relief sans trop d'ombres portées, demandent à étancher leur soif. Ma gorge et mes lèvres sèches osent à peine prononcer Ton nom Mon Oasis Mon Amour révélé poem by Héléna-Paule ----------------------- Helena grew up and studied in Algeria, from where she was brutally forced to emigrate with her family to France at the age of 26, at the height of the Algerian War of Independence. A schoolteacher by profession, and in addition to choral singing where she excels, she has a passion for photography and then painting, where she developed a highly original and much noticed technique. Her relentless painting production, on the fringe of her job, led her to exhibit her work in a Bordeaux gallery in 2002. A number of her works could be admired in her ipernity gallery. Unfortunately, her technique caused her to suffer from tennis elbow shortly afterwards, forcing her to give up her art for good. Her daughter Fabienne, whom she often mentions in her ipernity gallery, an artist herself and also ipernity member, introduced her to digital art using specialized tools. Helena adopted them relatively quickly, finding them a new means of expressing her talent and her mastery of shapes and colors. Her enchanting, sensual works, always imbued with a deep sense of poetry, will delight us in her galleries, first Facebook, then ipernity from 2007 onwards, which means early in the life of our site. Works always accompanied by the generosity and great tenderness that characterize her, as well as her comments, and have made her such an endearing member of the community, loyal and always approachable. On ipernity, everyone knows that she was an inveterate, passionate and uncompromising admin & moderator of countless groups on themes as diverse as poetry, painting, jazz and many other objects of photographic and pictorial art. She was also keen to take part in the IMA adventure at the end of 2018, helping with daily photo moderation as well as anti-spam, in an attempt to replace our dear friend Pam Johnson who suffered a stroke. She carried out these tasks, in collaboration with the IMA team, until illness prevented her from doing so, early July 2025. She hasn't missed a single general meeting of the IMA (IGA) since its first instance in 2017. We mourn a very dear and admirable friend, imbued with an overflowing passion and love that permeated her words, her actions and the whole of her art. We look forward to hearing from you, who knew and loved her so much. Your condolences will be conveyed to her daughter, Fabienne. --- My life a Sahara of fire, my soul carved on the wall casting shadows, not many, is asking to slake its thirst. My throat and my dry lips just barely dare to say Your name, My Oasis revealed: My Love. poem by Héléna-Paule (translation by Larry Beckett) ==================================== Mes notes se perdent aux larmes de mes yeux Tu me fis présent d'une averse d'étoiles qui depuis éclairent mes nuits, mes cieux vide Najda, celle qui illumine ma vie... & Les amis sont les anges qui nous soulèvent quand nos ailes n'arrivent plus à se rappeler comment voler. A vous tous, mes amis d'Ipernity, avec toute ma tendresse, afin que vous puissiez voir tout ce qu'il y a encore de lumineux dans votre vie et d'y croire encore Mais tu es son rivage au corps de sable chaud Sa crête reviendra s’adoucir sur tes algues ... And Héléna's final posting on ipernity: Ce frémir d'aimer qui n'a pas de mots...

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Result of the editorial team voting from April 2025: The number of submitters was 42 (previous month: 39). In accordance with the selection rules (maximum of one picture per submitter and month, 50% of which will be taken), 21 pictures could be included in the group. You will find them in the upper, light blue section of the results display above. In the middle blue section , you see 2 multiple submission which the editorial team also considered promising, but which could not be included in the group because another picture by the same submitter was adopted. These picture is welcome to be submitted again. The lower, dark blue section contains all submissions that could not be included in the group. The editorial team thanks all submitters for their efforts. Also visit the group: ━ ► ipernity Ambassador Pictures

Result of the editorial team voting from March 2025: The number of submitters was 39 (previous month: 38). In accordance with the selection rules (maximum of one picture per submitter and month, 50% of which will be taken), 20 pictures could be included in the group. You will find them in the upper, light blue section of the results display above. In the middle blue section , you see 4 multiple submission which the editorial team also considered promising, but which could not be included in the group because another picture by the same submitter was adopted. These picture is welcome to be submitted again. The lower, dark blue section contains all submissions that could not be included in the group. The editorial team thanks all submitters for their efforts. Also visit the group: ━ ► ipernity Ambassador Pictures

This is the situation we are trying to deal with, high load from AI bot crawlers (left). When that CPU utilization is under 20% the servers earn 'credit'. That credit can build to a maximum, and is used when the load is over 20%. The high load causes the slow loading of pages, which may exceed a time setting to cause the 'Gateway' error message. But in the current extreme case, rather than coping with a short peak load, it is persistent. So all of the credit is eventually used, with the very likely display of the Gateway error, until you are lucky enough to get a page delivered. The effect of taking the servers off-line for maintenance yesterday can be seen with the very low dip. Both in terms of the low load allowing the credit to build, and of throwing off the AI bots. Until they woke up again. Our amateur skills are not sufficient for solving this problem and we are seeking outside help.