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 (30)
durleybeachbum
The man who made these would be my sort of person!! They are magnificent, thankyou for showing us them in this great montage, Lucinda!
jmb007
photos interessantes!!
mariogiannecchini
Interessante collage di questi oggetti raffiguranti animali ! Interesting collage of these objects depicting animals!
BertDes
Excellent capture. The bugs are very artistic.
unstart
Interesting and fun!!
magnus073
Wow Lucinda, these are about the coolest big bugs ever ! Not only are they fantastic in appearance but the obvious time spent in creating them is unreal. It is too bad to hear the exhibit is over and I was wondering just how big it was.
helanker
WOW! They are HUGE! What a fantastic idea creating these.. "beauty-bugs" ;-) A wonderful montage.
annie5
Interesting photos, super captures and collage! :)
wjames
Great collage of superb bugs that could have come straight from a Harry Potter film!!
flavia49
fantastic capture!
mgtcs
Fabulous photos, great collage, These bugs is scary....
jendellas
They must have been amazing go see, in the flesh so to speak!!!!
alanwilliams
Great shot and idea, they will take over one day mark my words.
drifterlee
So cute!!!!!
Lisajobb
assasin bug looks amazing. Imagine if they were as big as rabbits or dogs. WOW!
goodoleboy
Wow, my worse nightmare! Keen kollage of these Star Wars-like creatures as they move about seeking their next victim. Terrific work on this collage, Lucinda! And are those gas caps on their carapaces?
psyoshida
I would love to have one of these in my yard. The assasin bug is kinda scary but the ladybug is very cute. I love how they have positioned them in the garden. I'd never heard of the exhibit before your original post in Oct. Great stuff and wonderful shots.
wysiwig
I knew everything is bigger in Texas but, seriously, the can of Raid must be two stories tall.
0rest4wicked
A most creative outlet for some that are a little buggy. Great craftmanship!
danapommet
Enjoyed these works of art. Do ZOOM to get more details. Dana
Chipka
WOW! This is amazing. Of course it's big bugs so naturally I'd like it. The one on the lower right reminds me of a nicer version of something depicted in the rather lurid and brainless movie "Starship Troopers." Oh, it was a fun movie; the kind you can enjoy on autopilot. It featured big bugs. And well...I like big bugs. What really grabs me is the colors and the sculptural textures. I love those striations and the colors are incredibly rich. As a montage, this is superb...and well...the bug on the bottom reminds me of something I'd write about in terms of describing the...um...bugs that you'd see in the "Nemaean Universe." Only they'd probably be bug-ish in another language all together...but that's the charm of Nemaea...it's so...well...something else! I love these and I'm glad I saw them. I'm off to bed and so it'll be interesting to see if I have really cool bug dreams. I'll let you know!
ShadowsNTime
I had to go see your other image first as I had missed it:-) These are simply incredible sculptures, I'm so glad you shared them! I never heard of an assassin bug before so I had to look that up, one ugly bug, lol! I love the ladybug. tho I would hate to have one that big in real life! Great collage again Lucinda! I can see Andrea creating something like this is her garden:-)
tennesseecowgirl
Awesome collage!! and thanks for the site I will check it out.. Super work!
virginiese
Monsters bugs :-)
npauling
Another super collage of these wonderful bugs. They look to be beautifully created and what a great event to attend.
misskitty
What creativity! Just glad bugs really are not this big! Great post!
clbsmiley
eewwwuu!!! cool though!!
sandra46
great collage
JaneEden
Oh wow how amazing they are too, thanks for sharing these with us. I love your collage and presentation, well done! hugs Jane xx
Madbat
Yick! Not may fave topic, but I gotta admit, these are kinda cool!