The Treaty recognising the sovereignty of Norway over the Archipelago of Spitsbergen or Svalbard Treaty was signed in Paris on 9 February 1920, as part of the Versailles peace negotiations at the end of World War I. It came into effect by law in Norway on 14 August 1925 as "Treaty between Norway, the USA, Denmark, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Great Britain and Ireland and the British Overseas Dominions and Sweden with regard to Svalbard". The main points in the Treaty state that: Svalbard is a part of Norway; Tax and revenue exacted may only benefit Svalbard; The environment of Svalbard must be protected; There should not be any discrimination against citizens and companies from the signatory countries for residence and and access as well as running acitivities; Svalbard may not be used for military purposes. Presently the Svalbard Treaty has 43 registred parties: Afghanistan, Albania, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, India, Iceland, Italy, Japan, China, Latvia, Lithuania, Monaco, the Netherlands, New Zealand, North Korea, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, the UK, Switzerland, Sweden, South Africa, South Korea, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, the USA, Venezuela, Austria.

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Congress in Leipzig: Fotogate, Fotos ohne Menschen – Unsupervised Image-to-Image Translation Networks (Youtube), auch mit Hunden – Holgi hat eine Mamiya 645 geschenkt bekommen – Affordable 8×10 Large Format Video Capture – Yashica digiFilm – Chris neues Buch: Weitwinkelfotografie – Hörergeschenke (Filme, F301)

Fragen: Feuerzeugbenzin, Straßenfotos, Lensbaby Spark (Foto: Soaker, Do not disturb, Rosinenbomber) und Spaßobjektive (Apogee Lenses), Zukunft der Digitalfotografie (Podcast: future of photography), Light L16, Hyperfokaldistanz, Deph of Field Calculator, Makro, Sponatne Tipps (näher ist meist besser, klares Motiv, Bild aufräumen, Subjekt nicht ins Zentrum), Schärfe beim Monkey – Motivation

Bilderschau: Donja Klara – Fensterputz – Take it Easy

Einreichungen zur Bilderschau bitte hier.

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Lisa bedankt sich für Trudels Rezepte, Martina fragt, ob sie Tapiokastärke durch glutenfreie Weizenstärke ersetzen kann und Ursula möchte Weihnachtsgebäck backen, das lange frisch bleibt und gut schmeckt. Glutenfreie Rezepte für Weihnachtsgebäck

At the family holiday festivities, Ade saw kids as young as 8 get drones as presents. "Holy Flying Menace, Batman" he thought to himself. He quickly ran to safety and started researching the mainstream acceptance of consumer-grade drones. Even common newspapers had buying guides. Also this week, hilarity ensues when Chris flies his own drone indoors and crashes it :-) Would you be interested in a TFOP meetup in the UK in 2018? Potential for knowledge sharing, playing with other people's toys, recording a live show... If that sounds like fun to you, please let us know by registering your interest.

Some 280-20 million years ago there were forests in what is now Antarctica. The climate then was hotter than it is today and Antarctica was part of the supercontinent Gondwana, but it Antarctica was already above the Antarctic circle and these plants experienced total darkness for a part of the winter. During 4-5 months they were probably able to reduce their metabolism and hibernate. The Permian mass extinction, supposedly caused by high temperatures, changes in the carbon cycle, increase in atmospheric methane and volcanic eruptions, probably was also the cause of the disappearance of this forest together with 95% of all other terrestrial species and 70% of marine species on the planet.

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Chris and Ade explore some new research that just came out of Nvidia, a manufacturer of graphics and machine learning hardware. In the future it will be possible to translate a winter image into a summer image or a corgi into a german shepherd and they are showing that in a set of impressive demos. TFOP 002 Depth. Research website. Example video 1. Example video 2. Explanation video. [Slightly NSFW] Face swapping for fake p*rn.