Some cool free photo software images:
Heraldry of University of Oxford Constituent Colleges and Permanent Private Halls
Image by The Happy Rower
The heraldic arms of Oxford University and its 38 colleges and six Permanent Private Halls in a horizontal array. All are redrawn due to the poor quality of such images found on the internet.
Created as a gift to the Oxford University community in honour of over 1100 years of dedication to education excellence. They image is free to reproduce for private, personal use, or official use by the schools depicted.
If you have any comments or corrections, please post below or contact me at thehappyrower@yahoo.com.
There are six Permanent Private Halls at Oxford, five of which admit undergraduates. They were founded by different Christian denominations. The principal difference between a college and a PPH is that the former are governed by the fellows of the college, and governance of a PPH resides, at least in part, with the corresponding Christian denomination. Students at PPHs are members of the University of Oxford and have full access to the University's facilities and activities.
I used two software programs to make these images--Adobe Photoshop Elements, and PowerPoint.
Be mindful, these emblems are the property of the schools displayed and should not be used for commercial or profit-making purposes without the consent of all, to the benefit of all the schools.
The poster was made for an English measurement Tabloid-sized sheet of paper, 11 by 17 inches (279 by 432mm). The graphic can be scaled down to fit Legal-sized paper 8.5 by 14 inches, or 216 by 356mm.
The closest suitable metric ISO paper sizes are A3, 297 by 420mm; A3+, 329 by 433mm; and B3, 353 by 500mm. For a down-sized copy, the closest ISO standard sized paper to the US Legal size are B4, 250 by 353mm; and C4, 228 by 324mm.
I hope you find these images useful and educational. Heraldry is an exercise in history, tradition, splendor and culture--Oxford University exemplifies all four.
How did I get motivated to do these graphics? The British spouse of an American officer attending a military college here joined our rowing club--you can see photos of our rowing club members on the Alabama River at my flicker.com home page. She rowed with Queens' College Cambridge as an undergraduate. Being curious and an Anglophile, I googled the Queens' College boat club and discovered the beauty of Cambridge University and its heraldic splendor. For a life-long student of heraldry, it was an inspiration.
I first issued a similar display for Cambridge University, and promised myself to do the same for Oxford University. It took a few years.
I also dedicated my heraldic imagery to those American and Commonwealth soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines, living and deceased, who served side by side as allies against common foes throughout our histories. God Bless and save the Queen and the President of the United States, and those who go into the breach risking their lives on our behalf: The brave members of the armed forces of both nations, as well as medical, police, and fire fighter first responders.
I hope these images pass muster--I researched as best I could from my humble abode in central Alabama.
RCB
----------
--I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
--A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
--Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
--One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.
--Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
--It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
--I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat."
--Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt... We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
--Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
--But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age.... Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will say, This was their finest hour.
Sir Winston Churchill
----------
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,
Or close the wall up with our English dead!
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility,
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger:
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favored rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect:
Let it pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a gallèd rock
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height! On, on, you noble English,
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof,
Fathers that like so many Alexanders
Have in these parts from morn till even fought
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument.
Dishonor not your mothers; now attest
That those whom you called fathers did beget you!
Be copy now to men of grosser blood
And teach them how to war! And you, good yeomen,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
The mettle of your pasture. Let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not,
For there is none of you so mean and base
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot!
Follow your spirit; and upon this charge
Cry 'God for Harry! England and Saint George!'
King's monologue,
Act III, Henry V,
William Shakespeare
----------
Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable hour, The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Thomas Gray
Machias River
Image by Campobello Island
Playing around with HDR (High dynamic range imaging) Using Photomatix free software, thus the watermarks. The picture is made by combining three bracketed photos of the same scene. To get the watermarks removed you need to buy a pro copy of the program which is around 100$ it's a lot of fun and I will buy it but not until I get a new computer hopefully in the new year it runs so slowly on my old desktop that it is painful to use. The black and white and the colour photo were made from the same set of photos.
Machias River
Image by Campobello Island
Playing around with HDR (High dynamic range imaging) Using Photomatix free software, thus the watermarks. The picture is made by combining three bracketed photos of the same scene. To get the watermarks removed you need to buy a pro copy of the program which is around 100$ it's a lot of fun and I will buy it but not until I get a new computer hopefully in the new year it runs so slowly on my old desktop that it is painful to use. The black and white and the colour photo were made from the same set of photos.
