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Beautiful and Classic Savannah
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Daily Photo – Beautiful and Classic Savannah
When I drove through Savannah, I met up with my good friend Scott Kublin who showed me some of the sights. This gem of a place was one of the first places we visited. I walked up and down the road a few times to find the most interesting place to take a photo. This one was taken with the 14-24 lens — although the other interesting shot was the 200mm shot from much further away. I decided to go with this one because I really liked the position of the sun.
Why I don’t use Watermarks
I get this question a lot, and it often comes up in interviews. I know my opinion is different than many other photographers, and that is okay.
As you know, my work is all Creative Commons Non-Commercial. That means people, as long as they give credit and link back here to www.StuckInCustoms.com can use my images on their blogs, wallpaper, personal use – anything – as long as it is not used commercially. Every day, I upload a HUGE max-resolution image to the Internet. I do not have any fear at all… Believe me, it’s quite liberating living in a world without internet-stealth-fear.
People that want to license our images regularly contact licensing at stuckincustoms.com – we get many of these every day of the week.
So why don’t I use watermarks? It's a multi-part philosophy –
1) Legitimate companies do not steal images to use commercially. So I don't have any logical fear there.
2) There are other services, like Tineye (and Google) that can help me easily find evil-doers.
3) If there are evil-doers, they will have already used my image wrongly, setting up a slam-dunk legal case.
4) We do register our images with the copyright office, so if someone uses an image commercially without a proper license, it is an easy law suit.
5) Watermarks look ugly. Whenever I look at a photo with a watermark, often times, ALL I can think about is that watermark! It is so distracting. Maybe this is just me.
6) I don’t have to maintain two versions of each image – one with a watermark and one without.
7) NOT using watermarks and using creative commons helps more and more people to use your image freely for fun, which increases traffic and builds something I call "internet-trust".
What are your opinions on the matter?
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David Ingram Purser
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Rev. David Ingram Purser.
The subject of this sketch was born in Copiah County, Mississippi, December 24, 1843. His parents, originally from South Carolina, easily traced their ancestry into the active scenes of the Revolutionary War, where some of them were distinguished for their deeds of devotion in that great struggle. In their westward emigration they sojourned for a year or two in Pike County, Alabama, thence on to Mississippi, the native soil of our subject.
Mr. Purser had limited scholastic advantages, but, after his connection with neighborhood schools in his native community, at the age of sixteen years he entered the high school at Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where he spent seven months in diligent application to study. He was reared on a farm and in a quiet country home, where the native talent for the practical uses of things, the habits of industry, and close attention to business were developed and cultivated to a degree which has very greatly facilitated the success of his life in other departments of noble effort.
The next turn in his life worthy of special mention is the fact that he entered the Confederate service at the age of seventeen and a half years, going to the front with the second company that left his county, "The Seven Stars Artillery," a company whose selection of a name was put in nomination by himself. He went through the war at his post, and was present and participated in sixteen hard-fought engagements.
In early life, immediately after the war, and before entering the ministry, by his energy and adaptation to business he made an independent competency, so that during his whole ministerial career he could have lived in sufficient bounty without assistance from a ministerial salary; but, believing that the workman is worthy of his hire, and that Christians should be trained to maintain that principle, he has claimed his salary like all other true and faithful ministers.
On a profession of faith in Christ he united with Damascus Baptist Church, in the country near Hazlehurst, at the age of eleven and a half years. That church, recognizing his gifts, gave him license to preach the gospel in 1868, but, diligently engaged in secular pursuits, he did not act upon his license for two years, when the church sent a committee to inform him that he must enter the work or surrender his license. After prayerful reflection he began actively to preach the gospel, and in October, 1870, four months after, he was ordained to the full functions of the ministry. His first year in the ministry was devoted to missionary work in West Mississippi, between Natchez and Port Gibson, a region of seventy-five miles. In this mission he constituted three new churches and gathered and established four scattered ones. At the end of the year he was pastor of seven churches, besides having done much other evangelistic work.
His next work was rendered as pastor of the churches in Crystal Springs and Wesson, Mississippi, two flourishing towns. The church at Wesson was a small body when he took charge of it, but it increased with great rapidity, and became a very strong church. The church at Crystal Springs was not less flourishing. He left that work at the call of the State Mission Board of the Mississippi Baptist Convention.
During his connection with that Board he arose into eminent distinction as an evangelist, and pressing demands were laid upon him from other States, and in response to these calls he visited and labored with remarkable success in most of the principal cities from New Orleans to St. Louis; meanwhile he declined pastoral calls which came from several important cities. It was while he was engaged in this succession of brilliant work that he made his first visit to Birmingham — a visit which proved a great
blessing to the cause of his denomination in this city, and won the hearts of the Baptist people here.
In 1883 he was called to the work of State Evangelist by the State Mission Board of the Alabama Convention. For twelve months he held revival meetings in the cities and centers of influence in our State, which were invariably attended with success.
It was a sublime day for the Baptists of Birmingham when he accepted the call of the First Church in this city, and entered on his work as their pastor April 1 1884. His church — then the only white Baptist Church in the city — had only two hundred and seventy-eight members, was in a state of inefficiency, imperfect organization, and worshiping in an unsightly and uncomfortable house, quite inadequate to hold his congregations.
Mr. Purser seems to have entered this rapidly-growing city with the ideas both of pastor and evangelist — as pastor of the First Church and evangelist for the whole city and its environments. He came among us with the fixed opinion that church extension is a proper theme for the pulpit and a legitimate topic in social visiting and pastoral work. Over the Baptist interests of the Magic City he at once became bishop of the situation, and knew how to manipulate the responsibilities of his functions. His own church has been for a year past worshiping in a magnificent new house, modern, elegant, and grand, with capacity to seat nine hundred people. His membership now numbers about five hundred. Many have, from time to time, gone out to form new churches. The church is a wealthy, intelligent, orderly, and thoroughly-organized body, with commendable liberality, a large congregation, and an excellent Sabbath school. While he has thus developed his own church, he has kept in constant view his idea of church extension, and as fast as communities have formulated around he has inspired the planting of missions and Sabbath schools, secured lots for church sites, and, in most of these positions, houses have been erected in comfortable chapel form and churches have been organized; and now, instead of one, his denomination has four white churches, with efficient pastors, and several promising missions. Two of these new churches are now so strong and efficient that they contemplate building elegant houses at an early day. In addition to his active devotion to the cause and his consummate tact, being a man of large means and liberality, he is capable of handling men of position and means, and this has been used wisely in securing church lots and in erecting chapels. When this end could not be achieved otherwise he has largely used his own money to carry his point. He has had the will, the way, and the capacity to do the needed work, and it has not been simply talked about — the work has been done and is being done. With all his ministerial work faithfully done, he has the gift of manipulating money successfully, and, as he rapidly moves along, he takes a turn at that quite frequently, and never conceals it. He seems to act on the principle of the English bishop, who said: " I am first a man, then a minister ; and, however sacred the work of my office, I will not forget that I am a man, with the rights of a man." As a preacher in the pulpit he is evangelical, clear, instructive, and bold. His subject is placed at once under his command, and, with extemporaneous discussion, abounding with appropriate illustrations and eloquent pathos, the subject commands the audience. He makes frequent use of current events, and therefore is sometimes called a sensational preacher, to which he does not hesitate to reply that "Sensation is better than stagnation." He has the gift of stirring inert things into action, and the adroitness of sweeping along with a religious revival or a secular boom. Tall, erect, earnest, pleasing, with excellent mannerism, addressing himself to all classes and all vocations, he is emphatically a man of the people — of all grades of people.
Mr. Purser has been twice married, and among all the successful events of his career these alliances have been the chiefest. On October 7, 1864, he was married to Miss Dicy Jane Bass, of Covington County, Mississippi, a lady of fine person, intellectual, cultivated, brilliant, a devout Christian and an earnest worker in the Master’s cause, and eminently "a keeper at home." To the tact and management of this worthy wife of his youth does our subject attribute, in a large degree, his success in life as a minister of Christ. She was the mother of six children, three of whom have departed this life. She died September 13, 1879.
His second marriage was with Miss Sallie A. Moody, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on June 28, 1883. Miss Moody had already reached distinction in the higher relations of social life, and that distinction was based on family elevation, wealth and cultivation, earnest piety, and active Christian enterprise. She was the daughter of Judge Washington Moody, a man of noble standing in the city of Tuscaloosa and in the State, and the only sister of an only brother, Mr. Frank Moody, now president of the First
National Bank in that city. Cheerful and graceful everywhere, she is especially so in her charming home, where hospitality abounds and good nature rules. Her Christian character may be seen in her devout conversation, generous liberality, and active effort. She is, at this, time in charge of a Sabbath-school class of nearly one hundred men, and this energy has been true of her work in both Tuscaloosa and Birmingham. She is now the mother of two children — a daughter and a son.
In conclusion, it would be unjust to the distinguished brother of Mr. Purser, who worked so long side by side with him, if we should fail to mention him; we refer to the Rev. John F. Purser, for some time missionary pastor of South Side, now the popular pastor in Troy, Ala.; the sweet singer, as well as the gifted preacher, who accompanied the elder brother through much of the evangelistic work referred to above, and whose sublime songs of Zion charmed the multitude and thrilled the Christian hearer.
- from Jefferson County and Birmingham Alabama: History and Biographical, edited by John Witherspoon Dubose and published in 1887 by Teeple & Smith / Caldwell Printing Works, Birmingham, Alabama
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