About jazziBee

Hi!  I’m James Brown Muir – and I can get quite enthusiastic about this photography stuff.

After a career in manufacturing industry, I’ve finally found enough time for my old passion to resurface.
So, some time each week, there I am out and about with the camera; sometimes on my own, sometimes with good friends from my camera club.
Photography is a great way to combine a love of art and the world around us, with an appreciation of what technology can do.

A while ago, I met an old friend after a 25 year gap, and in the conversation, he recalled a photograph I’d taken all those years ago – the image involved a golf ball, a driver, a garden rake, a felt tip pen and a piece of turf from our back lawn: all taken up to the bedroom for the photograph in the dark (Don’t ask!) . The point is if you can capture something that’s a bit different, or produce an image that carries some emotional clout, and then if it stays in folks’ memory for over 20 years – then you’re really getting it right.

I still don’t get it that right all that often – but I’ll keep on trying.

I’d thought I’d start this photoblog to record some of my photo exploits. But I have to say I don’t really know where it may end up going. There is no plan!

I should make it clear that I do take all the images myself, mostly with my Nikon DSLRs. I use Lightroom and Serif Affinity for photo processing. I don’t use software to add in backgrounds or ‘drop in’ skies. I do not use AI for image making.

I hope you enjoy the photographs…

Please let me know what you like……..even though it might not stay in your mind for quite as long as 25 years.