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 (30)
Madbat
Y'know, that first one looks very much like a wet, bedraggled and slightly unhappy cat! The other three really look like what I wake up to when they run out of food. (a magnified, and slightly blurry nose)
mariogiannecchini
Complimenti ! Direi che hai fatto un ottimo lavoro e una bella trasformazione, senza modificare i tratti importanti della faccia che risultano più morbidi e dolci . Congratulations I'd say you did a great job and a nice transformation, without changing the important features of the face that are more soft and sweet.
wysiwig
Beautiful celadon green eyes. Her nose looks a bit like the shield on the front of Superman's costume. Very nice collage. Nice work catching her before she began to nuzzle the lens.
durleybeachbum
All of them are very interesting..I'm very partial to what cutout does, too. It does in a flash what takes hours, even days, when block or screen printing! So I like top right particularly.
magnus073
Lucinda you did a wonderful job on this collage and I love all the wild and exciting looks you gave to the pics.
flavia49
wonderful work!!
unstart
Beautiful work!
MagikUnicorn
Gorgeous collage
JSGraphics
Fantastic work! Well Done!
jendellas
They all look good!!!!!
BertDes
Great collage.
drifterlee
Nice effects!!
annie5
Great effects..you did a very good work! Excellent collage :)
sandra46
E X C E L L E N T !!!! fantastic work!!!!
jocko500
cool post work
goodoleboy
A most interesting sequence of postwork variations on the face of your Cleo, Terry. But I don't see any evidence of the Photoshop liquify setting. Liquify is a distortion filter and the cat looks in pretty good shape. This looks more like Poster Edges or Dry Brush. In any event, nicely done.
myrrhluz
The liquify will show up in my next post of the lady with white hair!
npauling
A super collage with quite different effects. Very well done.
danapommet
Very nice collage of pink cat noses. Dana
helanker
AWW That is fun and very beautiful too, Lucinda :-)
jmb007
bonne tete ce cleo!!!beau travail!!
greensleeves81
You are very good in frame works. Its outstanding! You really enjoyed this.
psyoshida
I like all of them! But for me the 1st one has the best eyes, which I think is the essence of a cat. Number 4 (lower-right) is soft and lovely. Cats are such changeable creatures that I think you've captured that mood. Beautiful work.
mgtcs
WOW....Amazing effects, just love the first one. Great sequence o images, really an excellent photo!
emmecielle
Beutiful and interesting collage! :)
misskitty
love it!
clbsmiley
Great play! I like the upper left one.
tennesseecowgirl
I love getting creative with photos just in this same way.. very nice effects and love the outcome..
Chipka
I love this collage/sequence, and a big part of it is your postworking skill. This has a nice, modern art feel to it, and I love the subject matter, but then I have a long history with a few very colorful cats! What I really like about this is the way the cat's personality always shines through, no matter what, and because of the particular arrangement of these individual images, I'm reminded of a window--and because of my history with cats, I keep expecting to see nose prints on the glass. This is marvelous!
novelist
Effective design and an adorable cat. I love how you framed this.