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 (35)
morningglory
Wonderful image, especially on ZOOM. Love the light thru the bees.
Chipka
I don't often think of bees as being vaguely translucent and yet the one in the middle has wonderful light shining through her abdomen, and it's probably slightly distended from the nectar (or human-made nectar) she's enjoying. The bees are so well arranged--proof that social insects possess a superior sense of "stage presence" and aren't as apt to flutter around and move out of shot. Great color and clarity too! I really like this!
clbsmiley
James did good!!! I really like the way this turned out.
magnus073
It is a nice capture Lucinda and I can see why you asked him to post it. It seems he inherited his Mom's talent with a camera :)
Foto-Arte
I did not know that those feeders attracted bees! Nice shot!
virginiese
I love the light on the bee on the center ! Great capture and details :
BertDes
Wonderful capture.
durleybeachbum
See-thro bees! whatever next!
jmb007
votre fils est un futur grand photographe!!beau travail!!
drifterlee
Nice shot!!
jendellas
Your son did well, the bees are having lunch out!!!!!
annie5
Congrats to your son, love the light in te center! Excellent capture :)
helanker
What a beautiful shot. Wonder what they were doing there :-)
MagikUnicorn
Sweet shot
unstart
Fantastic shot..thanks to your son for sharing!
Madbat
I never thought of bee's being translucent either, nice detail in the shot, you can even see the veins in the wings!
flavia49
wonderful capture!!
sandra46
SUPERB IMAGE!!! FASCINATING!
npauling
I'm glad someone else has bees visiting their sugar water too. At the moment the bees are outnumbering the birds at my station but as it is mid summer down here I guess I have to expect that. A lovely capture.
vaggabondd
this is beeutiful lol. the center bee looks like you can see through it. very nice
mgtcs
A splendid shot, fantastic lighting, love the transparency and the sharpness, very well done!
goodoleboy
Sparkingly stellar capture of the backlighting, refractions and shadows in this shot, Lucinda! There must have been something very sweet and tempting at the base of the glass or vase to attract the little critters, who seem to be besides themselves trying to get in for a taste.
danapommet
This is great - bees trying to get into the hummingbird feeder. TellJames he did well. Dana
bmac62
Bees flocking to sweetness. Yes...son did very well and you are an outstanding agent:)
wysiwig
Great timing and excellent image! Are you sure the middle one isn't a firefly? It positively glows.
SIGMAWORLD
Nice shot!
Minaya
Great capture! Happy Valentine´s Day!
misskitty
great capture! the middle one does look like it is glowing :)
tennesseecowgirl
Sounds like your son needs his own gallery. :) Pretty good photo he has taken. Tell him job well done~
psyoshida
James is a very excellent photographer perhaps he will pose his own photos soon. Mark it right that middle guy glows with honey perhaps. Wonderful view of a bee's life.