Hello and welcome to Jolly Muse.  I’m Callie Williams, owner of this creative company, and

I believe having the ability to capture a specific moment in an interesting way is a gift. I choose photography as my craft, my medium, my gift to share with others, and I practice my craft carefully and considerately.

            It is not enough to be there in the moment. Time goes by too quickly and memories fade. Photographs are there to remind us of loved ones. They let us see days gone past. We revisit houses, decorations, outfits, chosen styles, and younger faces. We compare newborns’ features to great-grandmothers’, new barn doors to old barn doors, old city street grids to new ones and are always admiring change. I live to capture these moments. I love to be in the moment where these memories are made.

            Please take the time to visit our tabs to find out exactly what Jolly Muse Imagery is all about, and if you think we would be a good ‘fit,’ contact me for more information. I would love to spend some time with you and yours.

Cordially,

caLLie naLL wiLLiams

owner/photographer

 It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary.

David Bailey

Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. 

Dorthea Lange

I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.

Berenice Abbott

Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual. 

Nickolas Muray

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.

John Berger

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.

Henri Cartier Bresson