Can you hear that? It’s only my heart pitter pattering so hard I can barely take a breath.  That’s the reaction that ensues when I peruse Juniper Books.  If you are not aware of these fine proprietor’s perhaps I should enlighten you to what services this clever company offers.  Juniper books has created a niche in the interior design world as the doyenne’s of everything library.  Need all your trashy novels recovered in embossed leather with 22k gold detail? No, you are a vegan I forgot, no worries Juniper Books can create faux leather covers for you. What’s that you say?  You want the look but you don’t own a book?  No problem, they will design a library for you, it can be for aesthetics only (how dreadfully dull) or they can create via favorite topic (much better). A lot of the paper cover projects could probably be accomplished yourself with some sweat and ingenuity but if you have the budget why not hire the experts?

Yes, another chandelier, I have 347 days left of my photo edit-a-day project and guess what?  This is not the last chandelier you will be seeing.  Unbeknownst to me, I have quite a predilection for these lighting fixtures and have shot them ad nauseam.  I write unbeknownst, because I didn’t realize the sheer volume of images I had collected of these shiny beasts until I started digging through my old photographs. These are photo’s that I obviously had enough time to shoot, upload, never look at or touch again.  What is wrong with me?  

This beauty though, you will never see another new photograph of.  She is like the Yeti of chandeliers, breathtaking in her enormity and completely once in lifetime, (if that) sighting. I shot this on a trip to the famed Hotel Del Coranado, a magnificent Victorian structure right on the ocean.  I opened fire in the lobby and was quickly escorted out.  Photo’s are off limits inside the Hotel Del lobby.  Perhaps, everywhere on the property?  I wasn’t there long enough to find out. Maybe one day I will be commissioned to shoot all the grand chandeliers of the world and they will invite me to come back.  For now this is what I have oh and the ‘before’ photo of course.

Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream.  I too have a dream, it involves moving into the house where this Frenchie resides gnawing on it’s jowls whilst gloating over how well my fawn Frenchie coordinate’s with my natural linen covered furniture. Miss Andree of On Linden Way sent this to me. She obviously has heck of great taste in cute, this image looks like it was made to be on the Besotted Brand blog, no? I worship it.  Thank you to both Miss Andree and Miss Aubrey Rose for sharing this with the world.

This was actually taken today with my Iphone.  I almost never upload or edit my Iphone photo’s, they are even more neglected than the photo’s that make it to the ‘attic’ on my computer. I figured maybe I should start transfering the photo’s each day from my phone to the computer so the phone images can  commiserate with the photo’s that are just laying there in wait on my hard drive.  I didn’t process it with any apps prior, I just brought it into my digital darkroom and started fiddling. I am a big fiddler.  I edited it two ways, here’s the other version. For those that want to gloat here’s my ‘before’.  I mentioned on Flickr that showing my ‘before’s’ is going to give me an ulcer.  This seems like the psychic equivalent of showing up to school in your pajamas (remember that dream when you were a kid?)  Humiliating.  I am just going to work through this hurdle of showing my photo’s without any make-up on.  I am hoping that it will force me to just shoot better ‘before’ photo’s. What a novel idea…

If you would like to join me on this wild and woolly photo editing adventure I would welcome the company.  I set up a Flickr group here and it’s open to anyone who has decided to take a bite of the crazy cake.  This project is not for everyone, in fact probably not for most but if you want to dedicate yourself to a photo project and feel like you just leave your photo’s on your hard drive or gasp the card reader and they just sit there wishing they were adopted and didn’t have you as a parent than come join me.  I am feeling more creative already.