Sharing Media

Since there has been some confusion on the photo albums, I felt the need to clarify how I did it. I decided to post all my pictures on my facebook profile in a series of consecutive photo albums. I made these albums public which means that you DO NOT need a facebook profile to view them! If you are a parent or a grandparent or a friend or a relative or even the family dog that doesn’t have a facebook account… and still want to take a look at my pictures, all you have to do is follow the links that I’ve placed on random blog posts throughout the tour.

I also want to let you know a little bit about the history of the tour blog so you can understand what I’m about to tell you. In 2004 I had the opportunity to travel to Slovakia with Eagle’s Wings. I took my video camera and spent the remainder of that summer editing a two disc DVD set of video and pictures that I mass-produced and distributed one-per-family for everyone that went on that tour. I did that because I wanted to be able to share that wonderful memory and have something that our group could remember the tour by. However… it was a large pain in my patootie and I vowed never to take on something of that size again. When I started going on tours as a chaperone again in 2008, I started the tour blog. At that point it was on blogspot and quite rudimentary… but it was a start. For the last two years, the tour blog has been at this URL (www.oslcministrytour.com) where it will stay as long as I’m in charge of it, which will hopefully be for awhile.

I tell you that story to tell you this… I will not be giving out custom CD’s or DVD’s of pictures or video from any more tours. I understand that some people have elderly relatives that are not on facebook and that would want a DVD of this stuff. But I do not have the man-power to take on a project of that magnitude. It is a slippery slope and if I do it for one person… I’ve opened up a can of worms. So… all these posts, pictures and videos will be archived right here on this blog. There are “Categories” to the right. If you want to view posts from past tours… just click on the category from that tour. It’ll all be there! The pictures are going to stay on my facebook page, because that is the best way for the kids to comment and interact with each other about them. The videos will be posted to my YouTube page (which is available to view for free) and embedded in post(s) on this blog.

The blog is available to everyone… so when you visit elderly relatives or other family that might not be “up on this technology” you can show them the blog.

Thank you for understanding that I cannot make DVD’s of concerts and give you all individual CD’s of pictures. They’re all online… where they will stay!