My lovely new chandelier

Yes, I am very particular about chandeliers, but this is quite nice. Chandeliers definitely have their place, And our two ostentatious in many settings. Did you know that some of the really expensive RV trailers have chandeliers in them? Can you say ridiculous? It's just the most idiotic, out-of-place choice for lighting and makes me guffaw every time I see this. *shakes head* I bet you would not be surprised at the stupid penchant for people who show off with their RVs. It is so disgusting to us. The "I'm better than you" baloney is sooooooo annoying. Oddly, in our Grey Wolf, people thought it was quite nice, but they had no idea what a poor quality trailer it was and undeserving of the praise it got. This new trailer...well, we just make sure people see that we are not snotty show-offs and very down-to-earth, nice folk who are NOT showing off our incredibly good fortune. We fully expect snobs to wander over to try to hobnob with us and when it happens, they'll find themselves sent on their way immediately because they outed themselves as being stuck up, snotty people who like trying to put themselves above others. Heh, they probably all have ridiculous chandeliers in their coaches too! :D

Thank you for the nice compliments on my pictures! I always think about you when I am writing my posts, and when I have a picture that I am sure you will particularly like! It always makes me happy when I make you happy!

I hope all is going well with you and Mandi!

Thanks for this Janet - I meant to say that the chandelier cable is rather short and therefore the lights are quite high up. My ceiling is 14ft high and this chandelier is for an 8ft high ceiling - so you can understand why it appears rather high up.

I'm just like you regarding pompous people, I have no time for them - they either take me as I am, or not take me at all. I'm down to earth, with a tiny bit of a quirky nature!!! As Emily says - we get on so well because neither of us do "normal"!!!!!!

A beautiful chandelier with classic reminiscences so well presented to the point that rather than having bought it, it seems that you would like to sell it. The light seems very cozy that after all is really important. Congratulations on your precious acquisition Jenny.

Oh wow, that is up there quite a ways! I am familiar with cables that aren't long enough to properly position a light. Kind of annoying, but I think your chandelier looks fine up high. You certainly don't want it in your face! :)

Heh, I know that we share the same kind of personality, with a down-to-earth opinion of how people should be but don't often behave. And who wants to be "normal" anyway? BORING! Since I was a kid I've always distanced myself from others around me by specifically being different on purpose. I have NEVER wanted to be "one of the crowd". And at 55, I'm unusual, quirky, full of a diverse array of interests, and gosh, I wish I could meet my twin...we'd be the very best of friends! :D Wouldn't you just love to meet a twin of yourself?! :D

Oh, you mentioned something about my mushroom the other day... you didn't so much like to do anything to a natural scene. I wholeheartedly agree!! I cannot STAND when people create a scene and then don't say they've totally altered what is there. Like, putting a leaf perfectly placed and then taking a picture as if they found it like that. GRRRR!!! How is that different than what I do with mushrooms? Well, I'm taking things OUT of the scene but not adding. It's the adding that I disagree with. When I process a picture, I will almost always remove bits and pieces here and there, to enhance the subject. I do NOT add to it, only take away. I feel that's fair. In fact, one thing I will do which is at the edge of "fair" is take two pictures and use parts of each in the final version. I'll take a perfectly crisp mushroom in a picture with an aperture of say, 14 and place it into another aperture version of the mushroom which has a soft and bokeh-filled background, like 2.8. That's one way I use my sets of apertures that I take of each subject. Sometimes the background is horribly busy and yes, I can add texture and soften the background but a lot of the time the actual background, if soft and lovely, is what I'd really like to use. I don't think that's cheating in my book...I think it's fair but requires a lot of photoshop skill to do properly. What do you think?