Who's Catherine Jamieson?

Although I confess I can't imagine why you'd want to do it too many times, or even once for that matter, you can generate a new random image as many times as you like by clicking on the link.

Photos are selected at random from a "self" set of about images. I either look exactly like this, not at all like this, something like this, not like this anymore or yes, that's really me.

Who am I? 43, writer, photographer, sculptor, gardener, retired business executive, mother of two college aged children. Where do I live? Around the 100th Meridian where the Great Plains begin, flatland, big sky country. I'm Catherine Jamieson and welcome to my site.

What else can I tell you? After a terrible, hellish encounter, I was diagnosed HIV positive in the nineties. So much for the nice middle class whitebread existence. I started to see things differently. I bought a digital camera. I taught myself how to use it, how to make web pages and ... here I am. This is about celebrating. Everything.

I have a small portrait business where I take unusual portraits of people where, often, the person's face is not visible. Yes, highly specialized. I'm finishing up a book for which I have a contract but about which I am not yet quite ready to spill the beans. It's got photographs in it, which is the best I can do right now. Check back, surely I will want to tell you about it later.

I'm in the middle of working with a highly motivated and talented bunch of people to create a new community site called utata.org in which we bill ourselves as a "semi-civil tribe" of photographers and writers and in between that project and this site and the book and the one day in the future dream I am really pretty darn busy.