Iphoto library disappeared in yosemite

after upgrading to yosemite ( latest 10.10.1) from 10.6.8
I also downloaded iphoto 9.6 ( 910.29)
I looked at my photos, did a bit of cleaning.
I proceeded to load photos from my iphone (5S) about 1000 photos. all loaded.
all looked fine.
I quit
upon opening iphoto again,
i am asked to select an iphoto library, with nothing to chose from.
Iphoto has forgotten my library.
I looked for my iphoto library. not ot be found where it is supposed to be pictures.
I looked in the mac.
Ifind in a folder called blog ( inside pictures) a folder iphotolibry.
I thought goody!
but no library.
I see a folder called masters
in there I find the photos from the iphone, just loaded earlier.
No trace whatsoever of all of my other photos.
In view of the size of my user folder, there are all in there, but lost int the wrong place, with the wrong name
at this stage , i am stuck.
read some threads but these are mostly concerned with library not updated correctly.
in my case, the library seems to have disappeard altogether.
any suggestions out there?
Thanks
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