Free Anglican desktop images?

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  1. Kenmtb

    Kenmtb New Member

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    Hi-
    Is there a place online that offers Christian images for free without watermarks.
    I really could use some inspiration on my PC.
    Thanks
    Ken
     
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    https://pixabay.com/ - Lots of photos

    https://openclipart.org/ - lots of graphics

    Neither of these are religion specific, however the great advantage is that they are both sharing economy sites with a real focus on quality.

    As I am now also responsible for the Parish Weekly Bulletin I find myself on the endless search, and I also draw some of my own. Sometimes I will find a graphic in ordinary condition and not really good enough to use, and I will re-draw sometimes to get the idea of the image the way I want it. I normally use Xara for that task. Recently I have had a big focus on Monochrome Graphics. I have added a couple to the post if you want to use them.

    4evangelists.png LambethQuadrilateral_Shade.png Mitre.png BuddedCross.png CompassRoseMono.png Canterbury_Palium.png Chalice_Hands_Host.png Mitre5.png IrishCross.png Wheat.png
     
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    An idea: type "churches photos" into your search engine (I use duckduckgo) and save the ones you like. There are plenty of images spanning many websites, and few are watermarked. They wouldn't post the pics if they didn't want you to look at and enjoy them.... as long as you don't use them for anything else. This is not Anglican-specific, but it's inspirational.

    For example, when I did that search I came across a web page with just Iowa churches: https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/iowa/beautiful-churches-ia/
    Plenty more to see....

    Also, here's a photo I took with fisheye lens of a monastery in Eagle River, Michigan. Folks can feel free to copy it for personal use if they wish.
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    Cooper Active Member Anglican

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    Botolph,

    Your graphics bless us. Thank you for sharing.

    :tiphat:

    Cooper
     
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    Thank you for sharing these.
     
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    SevenBothers.jpg For those looking for graphics generally I recommend pixabay.com, and I recommend creating an account when you do. I share graphics there, as it represents something of the sharing economy, and I also comfortably use graphics from there, knowing that I have contributed as well. You can search for lots of classic ideas, and will get some choices. The think I like about the site is that they only accept high quality graphics, so what I borrow from the site is generally very useable.

    As I seem to have inherited the task of the weekly bulletin, and the parish magazine, and don't seem to be able to hand them on in Covid times , I have had a particular focus of monochrome images for that purpose. I currently have 380 images in my monochrome folder, and that collection is growing.

    This gospel got me wondering about drawing the family tree, hence the graphic. For us in Australia or our three years cycle of readings this is from the Gospel for next Sunday.
     
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