What I See ....

      I’m talking about those odds and ends, bits and pieces, those little items which tend to clutter your life. They’re in the way and you want’em GONE!  Me, too. I’ve a batch of that sort of stuff, and I’ve gathered it up on this new page to see whether you might need or want it more than I do.

      Let me point out a thing or two, The items on this page are the only things in my shop that I did not personally create. Also, unlike most of my offerings, these items do NOT ship free - cheap, but not free.

      Look around a bit and you’ll find several DVD collections. The DVDs all used and in good condition, unless otherwise marked. If you see a little “*” next to a DVD name, then it’s new and factory sealed.

      There are just one of each collection or item. Once they sell, they are GONE. On the other hand, I’ll be adding new stuff from time to time, so y’oughta check in here every so often. You never know what you might find.

      See these items on the ODDMENTS page 

Well, best laid plans, as the old saw goes!

Which is to say, some weeks ago, I allowed myself to be distracted, and so, the deadline for renewing the URL - the electronic address of my website, my online store - passed without my realizing it. As a result, my URL was put up for grabs. And, wouldn't you know it - someone grabbed it. I discovered this one otherwise fine day, when. having decided to refresh my shop, I clicked on the store's URL - and found myself looking at some sort of strange foreign-language website.

Not at all what I wanted to see!

So off I went to my URL provider - GoDaddy - and, once there, I explored a bit, and I discovered a link to a person GoDaddy described as being a "broker," a feller who claimed to be able to recover my original website address, and all I needed to do - was to fork over the sum of $69.99.

Thing is, if the person or company now in possession of my old URL decided that they wanted to keep it, I'd be stuff out of luck. Stuff. Well, you know what I mean, don't you? I'd still have lost my old URL and would also be out the $69.99.

This all had the stink of a scam, so after a moment or two of serious consideration, I elected to cut my losses. I engaged in some serious head-scratching - which is to say, I undertook some experimenting with new shop names, and fairly quickly, I arrived at a new name that is not too far removed from my original store name.

What's more, I learned that I could secure this new name for a full year for the princely sum of just $2.99 - saving myself $67. Aside from that, I've needed to invest a little time - adjusting bits of my website's code, reworking my company logo and putting out the word as to how to find my newly renamed shop.

So pay attention, all y'all. My online bidness was once known as "JaiGieEse PhotoArt," but that name won't get one anywhere anymore. My shop is now known as "Photo JaiGieEse," and one gets there by entering the new web address - "photojaigieese.com"- into one's web browser. Y'all please do make a note of that, save it as a bookmark in your web browser, or whatever you generally do in such cases.

And, of course, now that you know how to find my shop again, whyn't all y'all go and have a look. I've just refreshed the shop, and mayhaps you'll find something you'll want. 

I do thank you for your time. Have a nice day y'hear?

Photo JaiGieEse's photo book - Fortress: A Photographic Odyssey is now available in eBook form. 

Fortress, the first release from Photo JaiGieEse is now offered in the Apple Book Store. See it HERE.

On May 16, 1863, a battle was fought near Edwards Station, Mississippi. The Southerners would call this clash the Battle of Baker’s Creek. The Federals named it the Battle of Champion Hill. 

It may, in fact, have had far more to do with the demise of the Confederacy than did the three days of Gettysburg.

A contemporary historian, the Compte de Paris, in his HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA, wrote that the Battle of Champion Hill was ”the most complete defeat the Confederates [had] sustained since the commencement of the Civil War.”

With the defeat of the Southern army that day on Champion Hill, the last significant barrier to Ulysses S. Grant’s conquest of the vital Confederate river bastion at Vicksburg had been removed. The river city’s fall seven weeks later guaranteed Grant a place in the history books, and it set the tone for the final years of the Civil War.

Drums of Doom is an historical fiction. By that, I mean that I’ve taken the facts of history, as gleaned from official after-action reports contained in the “The War of the Rebellion  - A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies,” and from several excellent histories and a collection of the diaries and letters of partipants in this battle, and I’ve used those accounts as a foundation upon which to build a fictionalized account of what is perhaps one of the most important battles of the American Civil War.

Drums of Doom is available now as an eBook in the Apple Book Store. Get it HERE, or as an eBook or a paperback on Amazon. Get it HERE..