Welcome to JayMc.com - My Personal Website
I am Jay McMullan and this is my website. For several years, I owned and operated Utahwest.com. The purpose of the website was to display some of my fine art photographs and show the things that I enjoyed doing. In December 2008, I moved to Florida from Salt Lake City, Utah. Since that move, I have switched my webpages to JayMc.com. On JayMc.com you will find photographs and information about many of the things I used to enjoy doing. Unfortunately, I am not able to do many of the things I used to do due to chronic pain because of nerve damage in my sciatic nerve. The doctors are not able to "fix" me and I am no longer able to do many of the things shown in my webpages. I do hope you will enjoy the photos and the stories.
I started playing the guitar in 1988 and I started writing songs a few years ago. On this page, I share some of my songwriting.
To listen to my music, CLICK HERE
I began taking serious photographs in 1978 after seeing photographs a friend had taken with a 35mm camera. Before long I started doing wedding photography and soon owned my own studio. I have done about every kind of photography there is, wedding, portrait, commercial, fashion, crime scene, wildlife, landscape and fine art. I also am able to perform all kinds of photographic processes in the darkroom. Along with digital imaging and 35 mm photography, I also use a view camera to photograph fine art landscapes.
I have been a serious student of the Bible since I was eighteen years old. In 1984, I moved me and my family to Tulsa, Oklahoma to attend Rhema Bible Training Center. After that I pastored Family Worship Center in Lamar, Colorado, Living Water Church in Cuero, Texas and Grace Fellowship in Friendswood, Texas.
After moving to Utah in 1993, I found the joys of taking my truck off road. I eventually had my truck customized where I can take it on some pretty rough trails. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to enjoy this hobby for a few years now due to chronic nerve damage in my back. Check out some of the incredible photographs of the places I've gone.
Geocaching is like a high tech treasure hunt. Fellow cachers hide a container of varying size and then list the longitude and latitude coordinates on www.geocaching.com. Then other cachers can find the hidden cache, sign the log and sometimes trade out items that are in the cache. I have found almost two hundred caches which pales in comparison to some cachers. Geocaching can take you to some pretty incredible places. So far, I have found caches in 21 states!
A few years ago, I read an article in Popular Mechanics which said that Area 51 had moved to an abandoned missle base near Green River, Utah. My son and I had just previously joined in the Moab Easter Jeep Safari and we had driven right through that part of the desert and we didn't see any evidence of Popular Mechanic's claim. I went back, found the base, took extensive photographs which prove the article was wrong. I also have camped out many times near Dugway Proving Grounds which is America's base for all biological weapons testing. This is a site about some of those places.
In 2003, I took a trip back to the southeastern United States and traced my roots back to Georgia! Other members of the McMullan family have contributed to make this a great website for those seeking information on the McMullan family.
I have had a lifelong obsession with aviation. Out of that love for aviation came two full scale aircraft designs. The JayBird RX-2 is an all wood, two place sport plane. The Vortex Magnum is a four place steel tube fuselage and fiberglass wing aircraft. Both aircraft have wide bodies to accommodate large pilots comfortably. Both are designed for use with converted automobile engines.
I built my first balsa airplane kit when I was twelve. It was a Jetco Cessna 170. After that I got into building and flying radio controlled aircraft. I have built hundreds of radio controlled airplanes and have trained many people to become radio control aircraft pilots.
