February 28

Last day of February, and so many interesting things in the offing for the month to come (offing, sounds like I'm a mafia hit woman!... hmmmmmm)

It's starting to get to be weather where I can shoot more outdoors, which is always enjoyable, looking forward to that.  The only difficulty now, is the camera.  We have one camera, digital, and well, it's not the greatest of beasts.  It has some unfortunate areas in which it is lacking, and now, for some reason, it seems to have taken to eating it's batteries, which are unfortunately specialty batteries, and expensive.  Which means we almost always use it plugged into the wall, which is not a big deal when shooting in the loft.  We want to take it anywhere else, particularly outdoors, and well, it becomes a big problem, fast.

I'm hoping to be able to save up and get another camera come summer. The pictures we take, often aren't that great, A lot of the elements I like in them, often get added via software.  I should get a camera with a good timer and a tripod, and then I can do better self photos, since I'm the model most easily available to me at a moments notice, this could be a good thing.  I already crank out a lot of images, but I would probably crank out even more.

Images like the one above, may be interesting, one or two at a time, but after a few dozen, it may become apparent to the viewer,  that I'm the one taking the picture, and I'm doing it by holding the camera at arms length.

All of the galleries we shoot are collaborative efforts.  If I'm not in front of the camera, then I like to be behind it.  If not, then Wolfe is.  Then the raw images are "mine! all mine!" and regardless of who snapped them, I whisk them into paint shop and photo impact and play with them, cropping them the way I want, and changing the lighting, the contrast, the hue and color saturation, playing with them.  I definitely have a preference for high contrast images with a lot of shadow and definition.  

I'd be happy if I could spend two hours a day taking pictures, and then another two hours a day editing and coding pictures, life would be grand.

One of these days I'll have a dungeon set up, and it will definitely double as a fetish (and non-fetish) photography studio.

I've just started commissioning a piece of bondage furniture/cage and I hope that is something that is going to work out well for us.  We wanted a cage and we wanted a bondage bench, and we need a coffee table/ottoman, and then it call came together in my head, literally, and I realized what I needed was one item of furniture that did all of those things.  I can see it in my head as plain as day, steel bar construction with a leather padded lid, a cage with an upholstered top that can be used as a bondage bench, or as a foot stool, or as a table! The lovely thing is I can pack one, maybe two subbies inside, and then strap one of them on top, and still use it as a foot stool/coffee table at the same time.  I DO love multi-tasking.

I had a lovely lunch today with my slaby... my baby slave (adult male outside, age-playing infantilistic adult-baby girl inside), lemon and sugar crepe with whip cream for dessert as usual, but a Parisian style (of all things) hot dog for the main course.  We vowed next time we would try a different style of dessert crepe, we always go for the lemon, but the nutella crepe is calling to me, it unfortunately called to me on a full tummy as I was already walking out the door of the crepe place, and so now I have a craving on hold which is a terrible thing!

Tomorrow is a day I'm looking forward to, going out to friends for an early dinner, I think curry is on the menu (purrrrrrrrrrrrrrr) and then out to a play party which is going to be preceded by a 'kinky carnival' which should be fun.  Today at lunch I suggested that they should hold a BDSM Olympics, It would give the '100 meter crawl' a whole new meaning!

I had a subbie over last night, and had a fun time doing a photo shoot with him, I cuffed him to some spreader bars, wrist and ankle, blindfolded and gagged, and then took out the clippers and the razor, and gave him a cock and ball shave.  Since he's a boot loving bitch, I then had him give me a boot cum-shine.  Which is such fun.  I did trample him a little, just a very little, in between, while he was laying all vulnerable on the floor.  What else do you do with a boot worshipping bitch in bondage when you are wearing 6 inch platform snake skin boots?  Besides maybe pinion his balls to the floor with a 15 pound canon ball attached to a ball parachute... oh wait! I did do that too... He was a very happy boy, I think.

At least it sure seemed that way when I was editing the photos ;)