Living Open Source

This year I got the Rock Solid group to create the graphics for the carol service. Take a handful of teenagers, a few torches and a camera with a 6 second exposure and wow!…

If you browse the online resources in search of help for Sunday’s service, you’ll notice that in America it is also Mother’s Day! In fact on some of the usually great web sites I regularly check on, you wouldn’t know it was Pentecost this week.

A while ago I reviewed a number of online sources of royalty-free images. While most of these permit you to use images created by others, being certain of what rights you have to reuse and redistribute is not that clear and you nearly always need to contact the originator before you use the image for [...]

I’ve just started a new Lectionary Flickr group for anybody that is interested. If you have a Flickr account you can join this visual and creative way of reflecting on the lectionary readings each week. Simply upload your images to a Flickr account, join the Lectionary group and then in the Flickr Organiser you can [...]

I’ve been a bit slack with my lectionary images recently, but here is one for this week’s gospel reading in John 1:29-42 (or to 51 if you want the fuller picture!). A reminder that Jesus simply calls us to follow – be a disciple, that’s all.

When God comes, wildernesses will become gardens. On the back of swords being recycled into ploughs, and goats chilling out with leopards, Isaiah’s picture of a desert in bloom inspired this week’s image.

Grab a few images, put them together with artistic, professional looking video effects, a touch of subtle background music and publish in a video format. All in under 5 minutes? No this is not a tutorial, in fact you don’t need to know anything about video, music or such things. If you have a bunch [...]