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 (32)
lizzibell
cool eyes...
wysiwig
When I read the title my first reaction was Oh no! This is, however, surprisingly normal. I think George Carlin was right, cats always look like they're trying out new contact lenses. Sweet picture of a sweet kitty.
frankie96
Kids...they just don't know what's best for them..:) good luck with the PS adventure..
mgtcs
Wonderful eyes, mysterious, excellent photo!
mariogiannecchini
Occhi stupendi e imploranti ! Ottima ! Lovely eyes and imploring ! Excellent!
vaggabondd
now that is a great close up my friend :)
alanwilliams
There are close ups and close ups, but this is the daddy of them all, wonderful. alanwilliams
Rainastorm
What a close up...LOVE IT! Happy Halloween!
kwami
amazing shot...
durleybeachbum
SUPERB! My Fritz had good news this morning, he is doing fine on the low dose of phenabarbitone and his bloods are all ok. And his rash has cleared up..should have done too as it cost me loads of money at the vet!
annie5
Excellent close-up..cool eyes! :)
virginiese
excellent close-up ! what a look !
jendellas
Bless her, she has such a lovely face & her eyes are beautiful. Giving cats pills, not easy at all.
sandra46
superb portrait
drifterlee
Really cute cat!
goodoleboy
Wow, any closer and you'd be inside her head! Stellar clarity and textures in this amazing macro shot, Lucinda! If she were her a he I could say, Rotella is quite a fella!
flavia49
very nice!
danapommet
Halloween eyes just in time for tomorrow night. Dana
helanker
OHH That little poor thing. I hope it is better now. Lovely eyes :-)))
moochagoo
Wow, this IS a cat. I feel like a mouse.
misskitty
What beautiful eyes! Excellent close-up!! Wonderful capture!
Elcet
Nice picture. Perhaps try to use a smaller aperture for such closeup. With a very modern 450D if really necessary you could jump to ISO 800 and f/6.3 would increase sharpness. Depth of field is very short in closeup pictures.
MagikUnicorn
MIGNON :)
psyoshida
What a wonderful shot. She does kinda have the look that says "Get me outa this contraption!" Sweet face, who could resist those eyes. Resistance is futile! Hope you find your PS disk. I should not like to be deprived of your artwork from PS.
JaneEden
This is an excellent close up shot and I just love the eyes, it is really excellent photography!!! I would like to thank you for your support of my ongoing Halloween story, I am so happy that you are enjoying it. Warm hugs Jane xx
elfin14doaks
Awe poor baby, this is a great pic though.
tennesseecowgirl
Awww very cute.. sorry to hear about your photoshop messing up, hope you find the disc.
Alex_Antonov
Remarkable work!
Chipka
Cats have such lucid and compelling gazes; you can look at them and just about see their brains at work. I lived with cats for most of my life and though I'm catless now, I hope that situation will reverse itself in time. I love the details, and your description to accompany this image...cats in collars...now that's an image that always makes me laugh. They get so annoyed by those things! Wonderful work!
ShadowsNTime
Such a beautiful shot of those gorgeous eyes!!! Poor kitty pleading for the collar to be gone, lol! Mine did that too!