John Peri

1 hour ago, Sanford said:

How do you isolate just your photos?

with the URL ....

https://www.photo.net/profile/140041-john-peri/content/?type=gallery_image 

20 hours ago, mikemorrellNL said:

I completely understand the difficulties that our moderators have had in dealing with our past and current 'owners' over many years. Once again,  I truly appreciate and compliment them. Especially for their heroic efforts to keep PN up and running

I second that wholeheartedly.

For a great many years now, can it really be as much as ten, we have been discussing the possible demise of PN. Yet, thankfully, it is still around and will remain so for a very long time to come.  It still retains some superb qualities, among which for me is the ability to scroll through an entire portfolio which is particularly useful to those I refer it to. Apart from the periodic invasion of spam, it is actually functioning quite well now (thanks to the administrators), is it not? 

Well, let's say I am from that era too.

Fred, be yourself .. we like you just as you are .. simply learn to accept others also.

My thanks to William for moving this topic to an appropriate section ... I plead ignorance despite my century spent on PN

Double standards:

It’s a cliché, but as it is customary to say, I maintain that it is all in the eye of the beholder. By attempting to say otherwise, you are just trying to denigrate the author, me on this occasion! No problem, I can take it, but it merits a response.

 Actually, in my view, your description may well fit better some of the somewhat sad, nude or in drag images of effeminate men posted on PN that I referred to further up. But that’s just a viewpoint and it has no standing, who am I to judge or dictate to others how they should perceive them. Are they titillation, certainly not for me, but for others possibly, who knows?!  Is that a reflection on the author or his purpose, frankly I don’t think so, it’s just his (read your) viewpoint, his preference and his style. 

Come to that, I doubt whether you are really titillated by my pictures!

Ultimately, one should learn to live and let live, and express the same tolerance and understanding of others that one aspires to oneself.  I try to do this, possibly not always with success, however I have never criticized these works before either directly or through attempted sly, somewhat offensive comments like the ones you slip into our pages, albeit in a more moderate style than under the previous management.

As I and others have told you more than once before over the years Fred, find a life, there’s room for you, there’s room for everyone else here too, the more the merrier and vive la difference.

What may be perceived as titillation by some can be seen as art to others, it depends on an individual's taste and orientation. There is also a cultural distinction involved which I referred to above. 

That said, adult nude photography is not confined to women alone. I have seen explicit nude images of men on our pages, others in drag etc.,  which can equally be perceived as catering to some people's source of arousal, if that is what titillation is meant to imply. How much we relate any of these to artistic expression or not depends on the viewer.

What thread, no one wants to disrupt anything.

In the old days, it was easy to check if a photo had already been posted by searching in a particular folder. Today unfortunately, if in doubt one would have to search through a thousand pictures or so (in my case), which is not feasible. However, what I was pointing out is that the present system can cope with it, since double postings appear side by side and one can remove one of the two, which is excellent. 

I don't think I have any more double images, so I don't know how to repeat it. I was on my page as in screen shot attached and simply scrolled down the page .... when ever a photo had been posted twice, at different time intervals, they nevertheless  appeared next to each other .. in each case, I removed on of the two ..

3 hours ago, John Peri said:

How much we relate to any of these as artistic expression or not depends on the viewer, and so it should be.

.. All it requires is an equal tolerance and respect for another’s point of view.

What may be perceived as titillation by some, I have even seen Vogue Magazine accused of that, can be seen as art to others;  it very much depends on an individual's taste and orientation. There is also a cultural distinction, which is largely what I was referring to above.

That said, adult nude photography is not confined to women alone. I have seen explicit nude images of men on our pages, which can equally be perceived as catering to some people's source of interest or arousal, if that is what titillation was meant to imply. How much we relate to any of these as artistic expression or not depends on the viewer, and so it should be.

During the time when her husband was President of the French Republic, I saw a full length, frontal nude, life-size photo of his wife, super-model Carla Bruni exposed at the Grand Palais that was taken by the photographer Jean-Baptiste Mondino. No one raised an eyebrow, least of all him.

Why is there such hysteria in some societies around the subject of nudity, though thankfully less so in France. By all means protect children against obscenity, vulgarity, violence, but adult nudity per se?

1 hour ago, PapaTango said:

And we find that how?  🤔

.. when I scrolled down '"images posted by John Peri" in my file  .. I found three sets of similar pictures posted next to each other uploaded ages apart (with different comments/numbers of views and/or crops)  and was able to remove the one of my choice. 

Over the years, I have occasionally, inadvertently, posted the same image twice. This is probably easier to do now that we can no longer search through our previous “folders”.

I have just discovered that the present version of PN has an excellent feature which is to place next to each other any double images that appear in our portfolio, allowing for one of them to be removed.  

I'm curious as to how Glenn Palm fits into the picture ...

such a nice fellow, even under duress during the troubled period of PN, always replied to messages with kindness and consideration.

17 hours ago, hjoseph7 said:

There were some things I didn't like, like the sometimes overbearing moderators, but overall it      

Haha yes, I remember one in particular who felt very much empowered by his "volunteered" status as a moderator  .. but we did enjoy PN nevertheless in the old days!!

On 8/24/2023 at 8:11 AM, Alfred_Pennyworth said:

They keep deleted albums in the Recently Deleted album for 30 days. 

?!  .. are these albums first deleted by the author or by PN

Thank you

I wonder what is the meaning of "colour true" and "colour false" which appears in the EXIF description of black and white photos posted, not important, just curious.

2 hours ago, josephine said:

I saw it. But there it’s only possible to delete the file.

.. you are right, but it has changed since I last looked   .. until recently, I was able to go way back and change a title. Hopefully, this ability will return. 

I was also confused by this after it changed position (?)  -  if you scroll down just a little under your photo, you will find a box saying "manage image' ...

Yet another path to being reborn!

I cannot start going through the pros and cons of every manoeuver. It is enough to say that the previous version was not user friendly whereas this one is, starting with the choice of tools, all which work instantly, being in a single column.