A request

[RabidAlien]

Since the 4th of July falls on a Sunday this year, my church is (finally!) going to do a fairly solid patriotic service (past years they've acknowledged military members past/present, and done a special song or something...this year is going to be mostly patriotic music...guess they liked the job I did on last year's song). I run the video for the services...so I've sorta been handed the job of putting together a bunch of appropriate slides/images for the backgrounds. I've got two programs I use, one which can handle animated clips, but uses the same background for the entire song-file, and Power Point, which I can use to put static images (same words on the slide with multiple images, if necessary). But I need pics. Lots of pics. Flags, troops, little kids waving small flags at a hometown parade, tanks, ships, planes...and right now, especially, I'm looking for night-time battle pics. I KNOW I've seen images of anti-aircraft guns firing, rockets launching, etc in the dark, but I can't find em on Google. If anyone has some saved, I'd be very grateful! Post em here and I'll copy em, or PM if they're larger file-sizes, and Thanks in advance!!!

The two songs I'm going to use static images for are "The Star Spangled Banner" (rockets' red glare, bombs bursting in air) and "America The Beautiful".

 

[Njaco]

Rabid, I've posted a bunch of pics in this thread....

http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/personal-gallery/some-pics-inspiration-8048.html

hope it helps.

 

[Matt308]

You go, Alien. God bless you.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

RA, you are more than welcome to any that I have. Most of what I have in my photo thread is the best of it so just let me know if there is anything you need and I will send you the full size original. Oh, and here is a link to a very large US Navy Historical site.http://www.navsource.org/ There are plenty of action shots here and some are in color.

 

[RabidAlien]

Thanks, guys! I'll take a gander at these after work today.

 

[evangilder]

I've got a bunch of civil war re-enactment photos
Van Gilder Aviation Photography, Civil War Re-enactment, 11-11-2007-
Van Gilder Aviation Photography, Civil War Re-enactment- 11-7-2009-

Fitting photos from a Memorial Day service
Van Gilder Aviation Photography, Memorial Day, 2006- In Memoriam

Tora, Tora, Tora in action
Van Gilder Aviation Photography, Edwards Flight Test Nation 2009- Tora, Tora, Tora

You can use any of my images. Let me know if you need any resized and I can do that for you.

 

[Thorlifter]

I'm sure I speak for many people that when your done, could you post it here so we can see it too?

 

[DBII]

I have shots of M1 Abrams on a night fire table. I will try and scan them over the weekend.

DBII

 

[RabidAlien]

Here's the one from last year. Original file is 10Mb, so I had to cut it up. If anyone wants the full version, PM me your email addy. There's no music attached, since I only had a week and it was being sung solo anyway, but the song is "Because of the Brave" by Garth Justice and David T. Clydesdale. I figure this year's presentation will be even bigger than 10Meg, but it'll definitely be available for anyone who wants it, as soon as I get it finished.

BTW, DBII, I'd be very interested in seeing the night-fire exercises!