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 (36)
myrrhluz
That's my son James in the middle picture.
JuliSonne
Cool idea and image!
bimm3d
wonderful photos!!!!
PSDuck
I'll bet that human looks tastey!
wysiwig
Smart of you to throw your son to the giant mantis so you could get away. I wonder if the little ones have nightmares.
durleybeachbum
I wish I lived close enough to get to see these close up! Your son thankfully has a similar figure, so may lads are bumblebee shaped nowadays!
jmb007
je n'aimerais pas rencontrer cette mante religieuse dans la rue!!! great shot
helanker
HAHA My youngest son is same shape as Your son and Andreas, Lucinda. Taalllll and skinny :-) I am happy this Praying Mantis is not real. Excellent shots though.
qrud
Cool.
jarmila
lovely collage and macro Happy Holiday my friend
flavia49
fantastic capture!!
mariogiannecchini
Bella idea !Bel collage e buona l'idea del figlio per rendere il senso della grandezza della mantide . (Pensa che non sono mai riscito a vederla e fotografarla . ma l'ho trovata morta dentro la mia auto: troppo ansiosa di avere una foto ? ..ahahahaahh ) Good idea! Bel collage and the idea of a good son to make sense of the greatness of the mantis. (I think I never venture to see and photograph. But I found dead inside my car: too anxious to have a photo? Ahahahaahh ..)
auntietk
Love it! :) That is one big bug!
magnus073
Lucinda this is a wonderful collage and something I had no idea existed. Glad you had your son stand in so we could get a proper perspective of just how big that big bug is ;) I'll go check out the website you mentioned
0rest4wicked
Love art in this form!
Hubba1
LOL! I love this :) Very cool! Thats an awesome logo too
annie5
Cool..excellent collage! Thanks for sharing :)
BertDes
Wonderful collage.
emmecielle
Fantastic collage! :)
vaggabondd
Very cool image my friend, nice looking boy too
jendellas
That is a big praying mantis, bet the exhibits are very interesting.
mgtcs
Wonderful, love the composition and sequence of images, amazing bug...adorable work! 10+
drifterlee
I would not want to run into a bug that big that was real!!!!
sandra46
superb capture and collage and a funny place!
goodoleboy
Twenty-five feet tall! Wow, talk about mutations! Typical of the insects in the 1950's sci-fi movies. Terrific collage, Lucinda, with the foto at the upper right my favorite.
clbsmiley
Wow ~!~ Wicked big bug!!! No I am flipping the text not the whole pic. My grandson and I just made 7 dozen cookies and put them in coffee cans and wrapped the cans and put a big bow on top was fun he is 9.
psyoshida
Oh, that is so cool! I have to agree with goodoleboy, I like the top right shot. He seems to be posing and smiling next to his sign. Thanks for the link to the site, it's amazing. Great shot and wonderful info, I've never heard of David Rogers before, now I'm a huge fan.
JSGraphics
Outstanding work! Very Well Done!
MagikUnicorn
WOWWW STUNNING
elfin14doaks
Could you imagine running into a real one that big????? I like the collage. Very awesome shots and angles.