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.Â
Comments (28)
Seaview123
Very nice work on these abstract images. Very interesting. And congratulations on your 100th post to Renderosity.
mariogiannecchini
Un bel divertimento ! E' bello giocare , mantiene la parte di bimbi che è dentro di noi ! Ottimo lavoro ! Buongiorno e buona domenica . Good fun! It 'great to play, keeps the part of children that is within us! Excellent work! Hello and good Sunday.
wysiwig
Congrats on 100! I can't believe I got there before you. These images are really psychedelic. Are you sure you work sober? Very creative work and I especially like the top one. It has a liquid feel to it.
lizzibell
Nice work...
JSGraphics
Superb work! Very Well Done!
flavia49
marvelous work! great colors!
myrabe
Both different and engaging.
vaggabondd
nice work my friend, congrads on number 100, and here is to the next 100
annie5
Magnific abstract designs..I like the both! Great textures and colors/Ext work :)
wjames
Superb work. Heres to a lot more fun in your next 100.
MagikUnicorn
Beautiful Abs
mgtcs
WOW...excellent colors and textures, amazing view, in fullscreen is amazing!
jendellas
Love the colours & patterns, great work.
auntietk
Great job(s) with Andrea's image!
sandra46
WONDERFULLY BEAUTIFUL!!!
drifterlee
Beautiful patterns and colors!!!!!!
goodoleboy
Amazing display of abstract work, Lucinda...from the vividly colored waterworks above to the paramecium paisley effects on the bottom. You must have pushed the Photoshop filters to the extreme in this effort. And what is the font you used at the bottom?
nigh23
your having fun and creating some good stuff
Alex_Antonov
Excellent!
HADCANCER
Not sure what to say but they are pretty the top one looks like water gone wild, and the other looks like the easter egg stuff we used to colors eggs when I was a kidlet.
elfin14doaks
very cool. I started playing with it too, but things just came up. Nice job.
helanker
WHat a wonderful reault of your play with Andreas image :-))) Lovely to see. :)
icerian
Fascinating abstract creation, I like the second one! 5+
psyoshida
Very beautiful! I agree the colors are just wonderful. The second one looks like a tapestry, great textures. Excellent job. I look forward to seeing the others.
jarmila
nice colours, pleasant idea
clbsmiley
Oh very nice!!!
Elcet
Great abstract composition.
durleybeachbum
ThankYOU, Lucinda! Stupendous! The bottom one looks as if you made lots of crochet strings and sewed them together in that great pattern..Astonishing. I shall look back at your other 2D stuff, What a lot I've been missing!