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 (35)
Madbat
Hey! Happy BirthdaY!!
lior
Happy Bithday!
durleybeachbum
SUPERB! Many Happy Returns!
jayfar
Very nice and cleverly done.
helanker
It looks so very beautiful Well done :-))) I didnt know you have birthday today. Happy Birthday. I hope your day will be filled with beauty.
alanwilliams
full of graceful birdlike beauty, a very effective slant.
BertDes
Wonderful image.
wysiwig
Wonderful image. The larger one looks like it's protecting the smaller one. Fantastic post work. Oh, and happy birthday Lucinda! I hope you had a great day.
0rest4wicked
I hear it's your birthday :) a happy day to you! Splendid image!!!
rainbows
A beautiful image, Lucinda. Many happy returns! I hope you had a wonderful Birthday. Hugs. Diane. xx
magnus073
Lucinda this one is really something, and it has such a feeling of beauty and freedom running through it. I'd love to see the original and know everything you did to it. Going to go check out Gail's gallery, thanks for encouraging her.
jmb007
superbe manipulation!
GailB
You were right; it's a very neat picture.
unstart
Love what you have done with this!!
dochtersions
Happy Birthday, Lucinda. This is a beautiful image. Have a lovely day, dear <3
sandra46
wonderful image, fantastic work!
flavia49
fantastic capture and work!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!
jendellas
A birthday, hope you had a good one. HAPPY BIRTHDAY. xx Popped into see your sisters pic. xx
drifterlee
Awesome work!!!!!!!!
goodoleboy
Your birthday? Great Caesar's Ghost, I didn't know it was your birthday! Many Happy Returns of the Day! Cool concept as a result of your postwork, Lucinda. A polar coordinates filter used in this process? I've got to know!
misskitty
Great work Lucinda! And Happy Birthday to you!! (Glad you got your sister on Renderosity!)
Chipka
I love it when you take a perfectly good photograph, stellar in its own right, and then turn it into a perfectly compelling piece of visual art that isn't exactly photography. I love the concept of this and the postwork. It's quite organic, and yeah, I love it! Super!
psyoshida
Oh pooh! I missed your birthday! Happy Belated birthday. This is totally wonderful!!! I love the texture on the background and of course, the birds are spectacular. You should definitely get this printed on canvas. It's great. Nice to see Gail here too, good job.
e-brink
A very interesting composition and treatment.
jocko500
wonderful
vaggabondd
my friend this is just stunning, please tell me you have taken a copy of this to walmart and got a 16 x 20 print. it would be a sin for this not to be hanging on a wall
anianiani
thats lovely...
emmecielle
I'm late for your birthday... I hope it was a happy day! :) The image is really splendid! :)
tennesseecowgirl
this is beautiful !!! I will try to get over to your sisters gallery and see what she has uploaded. :)
MagikUnicorn
BIG WOWW