Hi, I'm Lucinda
The photo was taken with my new Canon EOS 450D (with a tamron 18-200mm lense), by me in the mirror. It's a little overexposed, but at my age, that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Bare Bones Bio:
I was born in Louisiana, USA in 1956, youngest of four girls. In 1967 we all moved to New Jersey when my father was transferred. I've always loved to read and soon gravitated towards Sci Fi, Fantasy, and nonfiction (mostly English History). The last was influenced by watching Masterpiece Theatre. I had the opportunity to go to the UK and Greece on 10 day Easter trips through my high school, which instilled in me an itch to travel. After one year of college,(I learned a lot, but unfortunately not much from my professors and text books) I joined the Air Force and went to Japan and England. I married a fellow GI (Bill), in England, got out of the Air Force (Bill stayed in)and went back to the States. Bill and I then lived in Rancho Cordova, California (where we had our first son, Charles),
Biloxi, Mississippi (where we had our second son, James), Oxfordshire, UK (For me, thank you Bill), and San Antonio, Texas (where we live now). Bill is retired from the Air Force and drives a Big Rig for J. B. Hunt. I am an office manager for a carwash. Charles and James graduated last May from University of Texas at San Antonio and Texas A&M at College Station respectively. Yeah!!!
Interests:
Reading - Mostly nonfiction history, though I have widened the field somewhat. I also like journals and diaries and have been reading "The Diary of Samuel Pepys" on and off for a while now. I'm currently on Vol. VII 1666. (I haven't gotten to the great fire yet). My fiction tends to run to fantasy, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, and Neil Gaiman to name a few.
Music - I grew up on rock, folk, musicals, classical, and Gilbert and Sullivan. I still love all that and have added jazz, blues, bluegrass, celtic and a little country. I don't play any instruments and can't sing (the singing talent in our family seemed to lessen with each new sister and I'm the baby of the bunch), but I'm an enthusiastic listener.
Art (Drawing, Photography and Oil Painting) - One of the regular pastimes of my sisters and I growing up was paper dolls. We used typing paper to make swimsuit clad paper dolls with pattern book heads. Then we spent countless hours drawing and coloring clothes for them. Depending on the current story, they could be clothes from Regency England, Colonial America, or Star Trek. I also drew faces from the hairdo magazines and was happy if they looked fairly human. I now draw and have recently taken up oil painting. I'm a definite amateur at photography. I've taken pictures since the mid 70s when I went to Japan, but they are mostly of my travels, kids and cats. I've got a lot to go through to see which ones are worth posting. I bought my first digital camera last April (09) for my birthday (I ordered it in April, received it in May, for my birthday in June. (I don't believe in being too literal about such things) I bought PhotoShop in June. I've still got a lot to learn on both, but it's a lot of fun.
Other - My sister Gail and I love The Teaching Company lectures. We both buy history, I occasionally buy literature and she occasionally buys math and science and we watch each other's. I'm also a tad fond of cats.
I could gush, and probably have, about all the talent I see on RR. I find myself using the words wow and beautiful far too much. I guess I should pull out the Thesaurus.ÂÂ
Comments (26)
mgtcs
Amazing textures my friend, excellent work! *****
IO4
Great idea. I particularly like the first one in the second row - makes a great abstract image.
MagikUnicorn
Beautiful collage
wysiwig
Are you freaking kidding me!? Ok, I'll buy the 'filters' bit for seven of them but the upper right? Clearly you've entered some other dimension and have photographed the inhabitants. I see a flying dragon, what looks like a cat, a birdman and all sorts of other dancing oddities. Maybe I should talk to someone because I am completely sober.
vaggabondd
This is awesome very creative my friend :)
mariogiannecchini
Ottimo lavoro , molto creativo ! Excellent work, very creative!
helanker
OH YEAH? But what about the upper one to the right HUH? ! :-))))) There I believe you pushed it a bit :-))) They are all wonderful and I soo love when people play like this :-)))
myrrhluz
Thanks for the great comments! The upper right was done with liquify under distort under full edit. I love this option, cause you can manually push the colors around. I can spend hours playing with it. I did forget to say that after filtering I changed the color on a few in the guided edit section.
Alz2008
Excellent collage..
icerian
I like your playing, I like this artistic attitude to the world. 5+
Mondwin
Gorgeous collage!!!!Fantastic!!Bravissimo!V:DDD.Hugsxx
Alex_Antonov
Wow!
myrabe
powerful
flavia49
superlative collage!!
psyoshida
Glad you caught that Mark, because I thought I was seeing things! I love it when you play with your liquify tool, wonderful things spill out onto my screen. Beautiful job!!!
jendellas
Wow, fantastic, I love the top right, looks like little people in there!!!!
sandra46
superlative creation!
misskitty
I love the images! Wonderful work! I particularly like the top right one. I can see all kinds of things there...as much fun as seeing things in clouds :) I like the colors in the bottom right. Great work!!
elfin14doaks
Awesome collage. I think I like the one in the bottom middle followed by the one directly in the middle the best. Great work!
goodoleboy
Nice bit of postwork digifiddling, Lucinda! Amazing what one can do armed with a batch of filters to play with. And, you entered the twilight zone with the little persons and animals in the third one on top. Actually, some of these variations remind me of floor tile that I have seen.
0rest4wicked
Very cool concept...push, twist, and tweak them photos! Nice Collage
wjames
Amazing collage.
tennesseecowgirl
vrey creative work
Richardphotos
very imaginative post work and collage.on the top left I see the figure of a man
erlandpil
Beautiful collage erland
anianiani
Nice works on this beautiful picture ..thanks .