Images library for worship
Information regarding John J. Williams' "1001+ images" library
General:
This library contains 1271 pictures, virtually all taken by John J. Williams. Two pictures of clouds were provided by John's daughter Jay, and 15 rainbow pics were been added by Greg Fry, otherwise all the photos are John's and therefore any copyright matters are his for those pictures.
The images are intended for use as either a background screen or as an illustration for worship service segments, such as children’s talks, and as such, free use may be made with general acknowledgement given on the screen at the conclusion of the service. Permission must be given for any other form of publication.
View the images at 1001images.unitingchurch.org.au.
To contact John or request permission for other uses, contact:
John J. Williams, 7 Page Street, MITCHAM Vic. 3132
Phone: (03) 9874 3957 Email: johnmargwill [at] netspace [dot] net [dot] au
Suggested Copyright notice:
"Image copyright John J. Williams. Used with permission. One of the 1001+ images available at 1001images.unitingchurch.org.au"
Scanning Size:
Pictures sourced from prints have been scanned at 100% scale and slide sourced at 300%. Many have been edited to a selected area to reduce the file size where practicable. As the projection screen is square, editing to a square is only deleting what would have been lost in copying into the laptop. A few pictures are vertical orientation, such as a waterfall, leaving these for area selection as desired.
Some files sizes are around 1.2 to 1.4 Mb and some adjustments were made to tool settings to maintain this. A few very specially detailed ones are much larger.
After July 2005, additions to the library have been sourced from digital cameras. These file sizes are much smaller.
Many items have been scanned directly on the scanner, i.e. diamond ring, bird’s feather, leaves, and it is recommended that this be tried experimentally if a scanner is available.
Text Over:
An effort has been made to select many slides suitable for adding a line of text, either at the top or bottom. Some pictures have been made deliberately dark in the foreground to accept light text over. Others have the subject off centre to one side.
Clear blue sky accepts a yellow text; a pale near white sky will take black. Dark clouds or a dark shrubbery foreground will provide contrast for yellow.
Non-seraph font such as Arial stands more clearly against scenery when used for headings.
Shaded lettering improves clarity. Times New Roman is generally the best font. Avoid fancy fonts.
Categories:
The creation of the file categories is something which gradually developed, starting with basics such as sunrises and trees. These were quickly supplemented and then broken down into more definitive categories. There has been little reclassification of the early entries. Some hundred or so pictures have been filed twice under differing names, but this should not be a problem.
Patterns can come from anywhere, e.g. a close up of a sunflower head will be there as what it is but also as a pattern, likewise bark of a tree. Text over a pattern needs to be extra large size, otherwise it will be unclear. Use patterns sparingly.
The category ‘outback’ is very broad. ‘Flinders Outback’ is confined to the Flinders Ranges. There are 54 in Flinders so far and I still have another 500 slides to look at. Not yet started are ‘Red Centre Outback’ or ‘Sturt Outback’, and there are another thousand or so there to be looked at. I haven’t even thought about the mass of material from the Philippines or the Middle East. A few from Europe have been entered. Of course, there are literally thousands of pictures which I have not considered suitable. Perhaps the many of the current ones may never be used. We will learn the finer points as we go on. Slides with identifiable people have been left out.
Some categories are broad, such as ‘Roads, bridges’. This also covers bridges and tracks. ‘Animals,wildlife’ covers farm and wild animals, birds and creepy crawlies. In this category I have many which will not be suitable as they are too dark, like nighttime shots of a moth emerging, or a possum feeding. A spider web building is there as I think it will just work.. A night service situation would make it quite possible.
‘Earth’ is a broad field, with weather types, weather instruments, jewels, rocks, polished stones, dry bones, feather and a survey mark. ‘Earth’ contains inanimate earthy things which don’t fit elsewhere.
‘Mountain Tops’ are views from the top: ‘Mountains’ are views of mounts.
There are two special series (Sunflower and Wheat) which show the cycle of growing from a seed right back to a seed – handy for talks to children such as, “Bread – where does it come from?”
Sub-folders:
Some categories have sub-folders for further segregation e.g.
About town has -- food
people places
transport
Aust Outback has a sub-folder for far outback
Signs has a section on traffic lights, ready for a children’s talk.
Symbols has a sub-section on the symbols of society – Parliament- law makers, police – law keepers and law administration – lady “Justice”.
Wheat series has a set showing the cycle of growing wheat through to bread.
Naming:
Pulling some many hundreds of names out of the air has been interesting, but the name does mean something. Where there are similar pictures of the same subject these have been listed as #1 and #2 etc. Quite a few have #1 shown; #2 was anticipated but has not yet happened. There are some #2 slides and no #1. The #1 is there but not numbered, as at the time I was not expecting a second or even third entry.
Some scenic slides are named by the locality, but most are simply catalogued. If the location is needed, I should be able to supply it.
Application:
Every image included had an application in mind when under assessment. Others may not see any application. That is expected, for we all have differing outlooks and have come from a range of backgrounds. Each image will say different things to different people, and the application is limited only by imagination.
May your worship leadership be enhanced and God’s glory magnified through your presentations.
List of categories:
- About Town
- Animals, wildlife
- Australian Bush
- Australian Outback, general.
- Beach Scenes
- Big Trees
- Bridges
- Earth
- Farming
- FlindersRangesOutback
- Flying
- ForestTrees
- Gardens
- Happenings
- Historical
- Industry
- Interesting trees
- Lakes
- Mountain Views
- Mountains
- Pathways
- Patterns
- People Activities
- Plant Closeups
- Rainbows
- Roads and Tracks
- Sailing
- Sand Dunes
- Seascapes
- Seaside
- Signs
- Special Buildings
- Streams
- Sunflower Series
- Sunrises
- Sunsets
- Symbols
- Waterfalls
- Wheat Series
- Windmills
