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Retired Art Director living in Edinburgh.
Now able to take photos with more free time.
All I try to do is enter peoples' lives by way of a smile.
Life is hard enough without trying to give something back through my images.
Occasionally I'll head off into other territories to see where it takes me but engaging with the viewer usually comes by giving them a small reward for visiting.
I hope that at least a few of my photos have made someone somewhere titter, guffaw, grin, smirk giggle, chortle, cackle,snicker, snort, or just simply enjoy.
Feel free to give what ever reaction you feel is appropriate.
Blog: jimdownie.wordpress.com
Photoblog: www.photoblog.com/user/jimbodownie
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Groups (50)
- Square Format Masterpieces (see rules) 3,858 photos, 1,419 members
- PORTRAITS - A Gallery for your Best Portraiture 320,044 photos, 16,689 members
- Image Portrait Gallery !!! - B&W or Color !!! 28,549 photos, 1,073 members
- The Superness of Superosity 2,577 photos, 65 members
- Vermeer Pearls.. an invite only group (P1/A2) 26,681 photos, 2,140 members
- Bizarrismo 702 photos, 101 members
- show me the art 16,453 photos, 1,025 members
- Fictitious Reality 36 th Exhibition- Kirsty Mitchell 26 photos, 365 members
- .•*´¨*Just Passing Our Time - Post1/Comment1 71,498 photos, 2,239 members
- Beyond the Sea 15,948 photos, 343 members
- *PhotoGraphia* & Quality (Mod. Group) 26,058 photos, 2,272 members
- Creative Photo Group_ BASIC (P1-C3) 456,411 photos, 29,229 members
- The Textured Landscape (Painterly Quality Only) 9,718 photos, 1,424 members
- Superosity 52,680 photos, 2,250 members
- MuLTi MeGa SQuaRe 48,552 photos, 1,289 members
- Committee of Artists 24,453 photos, 2,859 members
- Texture Squared 17,902 photos, 1,353 members
- The Knight and his Princess (Admins invite only) P 1 - A/C 1 34,161 photos, 3,014 members
- Fictitious Reality 35th Exhibition-ps70 returning slowly 20 photos, 420 members
- SCOTLAND'S LANDSCAPES 71,821 photos, 4,444 members
- Nikon Scotland 11,588 photos, 267 members
- Social Documentary Scotland 933 photos, 82 members
- Scotland's Scenery 9,761 photos, 262 members
- This is Scotland 24,166 photos, 529 members
- Contemporary Scotland 2,856 photos, 376 members
- Scottish Creative 250 photos, 22 members
- EYE ZOOM ! ESTHETIQUE ! ( INVITE ONLY) 29,421 photos, 4,810 members
- ~Stealing Shadows~ - by ADMIN invite - *+18, Cmt 1 8,174 photos, 2,524 members
- Image Gallery !!! 130,047 photos, 2,876 members
- The Light Painters Society 262,859 photos, 12,999 members
- Flickr Community (INVITE ALL CONTACTS) 635,109 photos, 39,954 members
- d a y_d r e a m e r s (admin invite only) 8,727 photos, 407 members
- "Desperate Souls" 12,363 photos, 1,516 members
- Barcelona Photos 57,034 photos, 3,552 members
- OLD - PEF 2009 4,498 photos, 1,580 members
- Golden Square 10,919 photos, 544 members
- Roberts_ArtGallery - Admin-invite only - p1/c2! 2,991 photos, 277 members
- Head-Shots 3,840 photos, 1,361 members
- ***All beautiful shots and many more. {♣Admin Invite Only♣} 226,766 photos, 11,819 members
- Masterpieces of Portrait Art 4,185 photos, 1,366 members
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- Between The Frames 176 photos, 120 members
- Highlands and Islands of Scotland 25,404 photos, 874 members
- Photo Gallery - High Quality (invite only) 66 photos, 53 members
- Ingmar Bergman's 63rd Film 9,310 photos, 797 members
- **Punctum** 3,543 photos, 599 members
- Wisdom Cries Out in The Streets. 45,551 photos, 1,525 members
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Testimonials (7)
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Bruiach/ Colin Campbell says:
"Sorry I didn't know Jim as an art director but as a photographer he is one of my favourites. Great compositions and emotion in so many of his shots."
13th September, 2008
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Mabel Amber *Pluto 5339* says:
"Don't need many words to describe Jim's work: absolutely fabulous, no kidding."
20th March, 2008
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mark gorman says:
"There IS only one Jim Downie. One of Scotland's greatest ever art directors. Now one of Scotland's most promising photographers."
21st January, 2008
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Deleting my flickr, bye everyone!! says:
"I just love looking at your photos!! I've gained a lot of inspiration from browsing your collection."
23rd October, 2007
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cyanatic says:
"There is a deep richness and clarity to Jim's work that goes beyond mere technical accomplishment. There are the elegant tones of the blacks and the grays, but in Jim's images one also finds tones of mood and emotion. It is one thing to "ooh" and "ah" over a beautiful photograph and speak of how it "looks". But it is an entirely different level of photography when one can say "this made me feel"."
8th June, 2007
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Maarten Kroes says:
"Almost every of Jim's pictures tells you a story, sometimes a sad one while others will make you happy. Jim is an exellent story-teller, love to listen to his images....."
7th May, 2007
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Lazy Aussie says:
"Jim has plenty of superb shots, so a trawl through the "back issues" will be well rewarded."
15th April, 2007
- Name:
- jim downie
- Joined:
- December 2006
- Hometown:
- Edinburgh
- Currently:
- Edinburgh, Scotland
- I am:
- Male and Taken
- Occupation:
- Retired Art Director
- Website:
- jimblog