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)
foggywear
Happy Halloween to you ,,,,,,,,great job
mariogiannecchini
great job ! happy hallowen , Lucinda !
vaggabondd
this is beautifuly done my friend :) happy halloween
wysiwig
And a freaky deaky All Hallow's to you. Love the frame.
PSDuck
Real cool render! Happy and safe holiday to you!
helanker
HAHA, I love your funny creatures. Happy Halloween to you too...Thank you for your kind comments, you gave me today, LOL!
alanwilliams
Very colourful and oh so topical. great. alanwilliams
annie5
Great concept and idea! Excellent presentation Happy Halloween to you too :)
jendellas
Love all the critters, great image. Happy Halloween.
misskitty
Great work! Happy Halloween :)
Elcet
Original and well composed. Great shot! 5!
goodoleboy
And, especially, to Tiny Tim. Terrific image, with that ornate Gothic arch, to commemorate this honored day, and night, Lucinda! Until I read the poem, I thought at first this was a stained glass window from the Church of Satan. Actually, the text is so faint, I had to zoom in to be able to read the inscription.
sandra46
BEAUTIFUL IDEA (AND MONSTERS!) I LIKE THE PRAYER
MagikUnicorn
Nicely done...Happy Halloooooooooooweeeeeen :)
myrrhluz
Thanks for all the nice comments! I agree about the text, Harry. I should have gone back and altered it some after I resized. But I was having so much trouble with PS closing on me, I left it as it was. Hope to get that sorted out soon.
flavia49
excellent image!!
mgtcs
Very nice my friend, excellent scene my friend, well done!
psyoshida
You've been playing in photoshop again haven't you? With excellent results. Wonderful prayer and great ghoulies & ghosties are very well represented. But wait, is that Big Bird in pink? Really fun picture.
pspworkshop
Happy halloween for you and well done this art.
ragouc
Happy Halloween
wjames
Trying to catch up on what I'v missed this week, some great pictures every one 5 star.
JaneEden
I have heard that before, I believe there are many tales, stories, and even myths and the like to do with old Cornish History. I remember when I went there as a child and I bought a Cornish Pixie made of brass sat on some stone, and it was said that it would bring me good luck. This is an excellent artwork here, you did great and thank goodness your pc allowed you to post it here with us. Good luck with your computer, I hope all will be okay soon. hugs Jane xx
e-brink
A very original Halloween image! Nicely done.
elfin14doaks
VERY AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NICE!!!!!
Alex_Antonov
Outstanding work!
0rest4wicked
Fun and colorful!
danapommet
WOW!!! Magical images. Dana
ShadowsNTime
I remember that prayer! Great image Lucinda! Belated Happy Halloween (sorry I wasn't here)
virginiese
very colorful :-) Great picture and text
moochagoo
Kind of funny picture :)