A Call for Images
Other Ways to Contribute — A Call for International LDS-themed Photos & Images
Dear Friends:
Here is a simple way you can really really help promote positive images of members online!
More Good Foundation, as you know, is working to provide honest seekers with correct information and accurate perceptions of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its members. We have found that many of the public at large equate us either with the Amish, or with the polygamous groups that have recently been in the news. In spite of the rise to stardom of many LDS people (David Archuleta, Chelsie Hightower, etc.) and the general knowledge that they are Mormon, people still aren’t figuring out who we are. Because of this, we desire to add additional images to all the articles on all of our sites to show Mormons in action, going about our daily routines, jobs, church work, recreation, and milestone events. We’ve just created a site called LDSImages dot com where we will place these photos, so that those Googling Mormon images can find something positive that reflects our enjoyments, families, friends, activities rather than those that confuse our image with other religious groups.
This is a request that you will network with your own friends, even forward this message, so that we may gather in some great photos. We need the images in jpg format, and you can email them to me at email@moregoodfoundation dot org. These can be pics of your own family, in your home or yard; photos of weddings, missionaries, humanitarian aid projects, groups of kids playing at games or sports, family home evenings, proms, seminary/institute gatherings, reunions, anything at all that shows who we are and how we look. If you have a couple of paragraphs of content to go with the photo, it would be awesome. If not, send them anyway. If you send us a picture, that means we have your permission to use it. Please include any info identifying the scene–”Joe and Lizzie Sikes upon their marriage at the Provo Temple, 4/08.” We will upload images without identifying individuals, with generic captions such as “Mormon family temple wedding,” or with first names only, so let us know your preference. If you have images of Saints in other countries, we would also be very interested in using those permissible as well.
Whether amateur photographer, scrapbooker, or professional, we’d love your clean, crisp photos of Mormons in action. If you are an artist who does charcoal or pencil drawings of Mormons, or who is willing to share any other images of members’ or Church-related images, please feel free to contribute.
By the way, if you are posting photos on Flickr, or other photo-sharing sites, and if you don’t have descriptions on them, friends of other faiths may not stumble upon them. If you share them with us so we can add them to our repository with titles and descriptive post, they will make a difference in what is visible to those seeking to see who we are online.
Thanks so much for all your help. Please circulate this everywhere you can within the circles of your International LDS community.
More Good Foundation, as you know, is working to provide honest seekers with correct information and accurate perceptions of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its members. We have found that many of the public at large equate us either with the Amish, or with the polygamous groups that have recently been in the news. In spite of the rise to stardom of many LDS people (David Archuleta, Chelsie Hightower, etc.) and the general knowledge that they are Mormon, people still aren’t figuring out who we are. Because of this, we desire to add additional images to all the articles on all of our sites to show Mormons in action, going about our daily routines, jobs, church work, recreation, and milestone events.
This is a request that you will network with your own friends, even forward this message, so that we may gather in some great photos. We need the images in jpg format, and you can email them to email@moregoodfoundation.org. These can be pics of your own family, weddings, missionaries, humanitarian aid projects, groups of kids playing at games or sports, family home evenings, proms, seminary/institute gatherings, reunions, anything at all that shows who we are and how we look. If you send us a picture, that means we have your permission to use it. Please include any info identifying the scene–”Joe and Lizzie Sikes upon their marriage at the Provo Temple, 4/08.” We will upload images without identifying individuals, with generic captions such as “Mormon family temple wedding,” or with first names only, so let us know your preference. If you have images of Saints in other countries, we would also be very interested in using those permissible as well.
Here are some suggestions for types of images:
(We’d love images from other countries that show our ethnic & cultural diversity.)
Families in action (Single and dual parent families, young and old)
Hiking, gardening, playing ball or raking leaves on the front lawn, strolling the park or Thanksgiving Point, involved in day to day
activities and hobbies together–lots of variety,
Going to Church
Capture a diversity of nationalities
Attending General Conference or Stake Conferences
Family Home Evenings
Eating dinner together
One on one with children
Extended family get togethers–multi-generational
Home and Visiting Teachers
Mormon Youth
Doing pizza and a video–hanging out
Dressing for MORP or PROM
At Youth Conferences and EFY
In Seminary
At the temple
At Lagoon
Texting
Capture youth from other countries as well
Various activities–Activity Nights
Caroling in Hospitals
Dances and dance contests
Studying for school with friends
Reading scriptures
Playing on various sports teams–
In school plays
YSA
Activities together
Single Adult Conferences–
Studying
In the apartment or dorm with friends
Going to a devotional
Include YSA from other countries
Dances
Receiving awards
In plays and musicals, performing
Visiting each other
At the office–in different businesses and professions
Mowing lawns and gardening
Teaching children
Playing a board game with a child
Volunteering
In politics–at the legislature
Blogging
In the classroom
Creating art, handicraft
In sports
In Primary, YW, leadership settings
Mormon Women around the world… not just Caucasians
Addressing a large group
By the temple
Directing music
Mormon Men
Leading
Counseling one on one
With their children
In hobbies
Preparedness
Images of personal food storage rooms with a member
Images of different types of kits
Images of Table-top drills in the stake
Images of water storage
Families canning and gardening
Serving Worldwide
Images of LDS foster parents
Images of people serving their community–variety–
Missionaries
Missionaries on the street
In discussion
In prayer
In companion study
On bikes
At zone conferences
At the MTC
In different parts of the world
Teaching
Reading the Bible and Book of Mormon in multiple languages
Pictures of Book of Mormon covers in multiple languages
Gospel Principles
Members praying
Picture of tithing interview
Sacrament Setting
Temple shots–
Pictures representing faith, hope, charity, attributes of godliness
Leaders
Every calling–Bishops, Stake Presidents, Mission Presidents, Temple Pres, RS leaders, Auxiliary Leaders, Choristers, Clerks, Instructors, etc.
Temple
Wedding Photos
Open House
Laying Cornerstones
Reflections on the Grounds
Temple Square attractions
Just the beginning!
