First of all Happy New Year! May the New year be more wise, inspiring and successful to all of us! Year full of enthusiasm and great promises. And right here I would like to quote Oprah Winfrey : “Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right.” Nicely said:)
Anyway back to the point, I’ve been slightly obsessed with cupcakes lately ….. to the point that I researched the best cupcake bakeries around and made a list of all I want to try .The first place I end up going to was “La Provence” cafe in Beverly Hills. And what can I say…..I have never tried any sweet goodness as awesome as their cupcakes and french macaroons. Believe it or not that was the first time I ever tried French macaroons and…. I can’t compare it to anything else….yeah it was that good. Now the thing is how do I figure how to make those myself, considering I’m not a very good cook, and by that I mean I suck at cooking lol.
And yes, you guessed it….I had to express all this in a photograph

103……. That’s the temperature my car read today!  Needless to say it’s hot as hell and as much as I try to live green i keep the AC on pretty much 24/7 these days.  Going to the beach is an option just on the weekends as you can guess.

As I mentioned before I study Interior Design and projects never end for me. It’s only second week in fall semester and we already have a bunch of projects and presentations to do.  In fact I have 6 illustrations due tomorrow and I’m only half way trough…..gulp….. I will keep it short and will show you 2 of my latest photography pieces. As I’m hooked on vintage stuff lately I decided to try a new technique, which is supposed to be a photography technique Ttv but I simulated it in PS. Ttv is the abbreviation for “Trough the viewfinder” and initially is to be done with a camera shooting the viewfinder of a second camera. Pretty interesting i think and can’t wait to try it. This is what i got with manipulation of a regular photograph in PS ( the beach photo).

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To those of you that noticed the lack of blog posts on Clamzee.com for quite some time, i want to say: Thank you for your patience and for checking back. Now Clamzee is back with complete new design and layout. I was going for more simplicity and professional look after it came to me that the busy look does not work for Clamzee. The logo is completely transformed as well. I hope the sleepless time I invested was worthed and the better impact of the website was achieved. There are few things I’m still working on and testing, but they are slowly coming along.
In the mean time I’m bringing more fresh photographs, that I really enjoyed taking and editing. Take a look.

Check my photography page for more

As I’ll be out of the city for the next 3 days, (will be visiting the in-laws) I wont have much time for blogging, so I decided to show you two of my resent photographs at this time. The first one is a panoramic of West Hollywood I took couple a weeks ago. I learned this really interesting technique of stitching photographs in panorama from my Photography teacher Peter Phun. And I thought I know Photoshop very well as I work with it almost every day. But apparently there’s lot more to learn. Ok here is my panorama:

Notice: I had to considerably resize the photo so it fits in here.

You might think I’m crazy, but I think it was worthed doing this. I took the following picture few days ago while I was driving on the highway and this beautiful sunset appeared in front of me reflecting the ground surface. It was begging to be photographed and it was quite of an adrenaline rush to do it….. I tried to find the proper settings as I shoot only on manual and that took 4-5 extra shots.
I don’t encourage you to do this ….it’s was quite dangerous. But hey, at least I don’t text while I’m driving:))

As me and my husband are taking photography really seriously the past year and a half  (beside our other full time activities), we decided to invest in some more photo equipment like professional printer, Prophoto strobes and everything else which comes along with  that and make a photo studio/lab at home. Yes it drained our savings a bit but I really believe this is a good investment. So now I will be working on remodeling the photography page of this blog and eventually start a new blog  quite soon, which will be dedicated predominantly to photography. There’s  already a photography blog/forum which my husband hosts http://profotoforum.com  but i have different ideas and will be generally pursuing  to showcase our art works alone. Up to date I’ve been offering fine art photographs printed on demand by professional online photo lab (website) and drop shipped to my customers without me being able to check the quality of the prints. From now on I’ll be supervising the whole printing process along with the shipping.  This way I’ll will be able to offer the same excellent quality to my customers for lesser price. There will be a lot of  holiday sales and bulk discounts so check back . Here is some of the photographs available on my new shop at the present moment: