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
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Comments (34)
mgtcs
WOW...This is certainly very original my friend! Excellent colors and textures, great idea! Well done!
drifterlee
LOL, too funny!!
goodoleboy
And down the counterclockwise whirlpool they go! Super thanks for this birthday dedication, Lucinda! It is an offering appreciated beyond the comprehension of most mortals. Terrific effects and textures in this stellar bit of digifiddling postwork (liquify?) concept, and I love the accompanying, and amusing, interview items hot off the news wires. You have quite a humorous imagination. And, I had forgotten that I also include fire hydrants in my eclectic array of photo objects. A few of those hydrants look like the old traditional kind. I believe I still have some hydrants that I haven't posted in my files.
wysiwig
It seems the space aliens have gotten serious about their invasion. Can the pseudo dogs be far behind? Excellent post work and cool effects.
magnus073
First of all Lucinda this is so beyond cool and gave me a bit of a smile to go to bed with. Love the idea here and the twists and turns of the story as it develops all the way to it being aliens ;)Just to be safe I've got my eye on one down the street from me thanks to you.
tstray1
Love this image, neat story to go with it as well!!! Great imagination and work!!
vaggabondd
when I saw this I had to run out to the top of my road and make sure our hydrant was still there. it is but I swear it has moved a little.lol cute story and image my friend :)
mariogiannecchini
Certamente un fenomeno curioso dalle origini misteriose !Lavoro molto bello , pieno di movimento e imprevedibilita'! Molto bello il colore ! Buon anno Lucinda ! Certainly a curious phenomenon of mysterious origins! Job very beautiful, full of movement and unpredictability ! Very nice color! Lucinda Happy New Year !
M2A
Original and fun.
helanker
OH LOL ! What a wonderful fun I had reading the story and seeing this fantastic image. Excellent way to start the day :-))) Thank you LOL ! Happy New Year!!
durleybeachbum
Marvellous pic, Lucinda, and a superbly dotty news article!! Our hydrants are belonw ground, so heaven knows what they get up to!
alanwilliams
what an original piece of work, i will never look at fire hydrants in the same way again
clbsmiley
How funny!!! We will need an update!!! Good morning!! Happy New Year!!!~~!!!
jmb007
image inquietante!!pourvu qu'il n'arrive pas en france!!j'ai peur!!!!! superbe image et texte!!
flavia49
fantastic "scene" and story!!! extraordinary work!!
psyoshida
LOL, too much fun. Lucinda you are such a character and a great artist. You had me going on the first line, I thought "I didn't hear about that!" Hahaha. Wonderful birthday wish. Glad I got to enjoy it too.
BertDes
Great scene. Happy New Year.
0rest4wicked
What fun!! Great image!! A Happy New Decade to you and yours!!!
sandra46
EXCELLENT WORK!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
emmecielle
Excellent work! Happy New Year! :)
jendellas
As with Andrea, ours carn't be seen but if I should spot one of the red ones as in your splendid pic I will inform the authorities asap :o) :o)
misskitty
LOL What a great image! Love the colors too!
jocko500
cool
virginiese
quite surrealistic ! love it :-)
MagikUnicorn
Very COOOOOL HAPPY NEW YEAR
Lisajobb
superb work.very creative and bizzare.
e-brink
Very inventive work.
tennesseecowgirl
How fun is this... LOL Nice work for the birthday boy!
npauling
A lovely fun image and a great story you have told too. I'm sure Harry will love it.
Madbat
LMAO!! Too funny