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 (34)
Xoterik
Interesting sci-fi image.
durleybeachbum
Extremely clever stuff, Lucinda! It is splendidly sinister, and there is a lot going on which is very interesting. I love all the ambivalence.
helanker
HA, I thought, WOW what a unique find. :-) You did it so well, as you could have fooled me. SO excellently done. :)
Hubert
Fantastic result!!
jayfar
Brilliant work on this - fantastic result.
DukeNukem2005
This is an excellent!
jmb007
superbe photo!!
magnus073
First of all Lucinda I'm so glad that you did decide to post as it gave me a smile this morning to see something from you. :) This really is a splendid scene and the postwork you did really added a dramatic flare to it. This one really makes a point in a well thought out manner.
auntietk
This is fantastic! Really excellent work.
alanwilliams
Clever, eerie, sinister possibly, successful and eye catching definitely.
nikolais
fine work indeed
annie5
Super result on this photo! Very interesting picture :)
GailB
Very ominous. Nicely done.
jendellas
Very dramatic, excellent pic!!!!
unstart
Fantastic manipulation!!
emmecielle
Interesting composition! :)
drifterlee
This is fantastic. Is that a person up there on that building?
sandra46
fantastic image! you managed to convey a terrific mood! a great manipulation!
M2A
Nice photo, evocative and conceptual.
goodoleboy
Marvelous POV and spooky looking postwork rendition of what looks like the beginning of a Batman movie, Lucinda!
Madbat
This is great! and creepy too if you think about it! Nice work!
jocko500
spiritual warfare going on and the watchers is on the wrong side i think... wonderful image
psyoshida
A great creation. I love the mood and the title is perfect. I love sci-fi and this has a definite sci-fi feel to it. The lighting is really spectacular as is the POV. Wonderful glad you decided to post it. Thanks.
mariogiannecchini
bella manipolazione e creazione di un'atmoosfera misteriosa che , per mezzo dell'illuminazione molto adeguata ti tiene in attesa di qualcosa che potrebbe accadere! better handling and creating a mysterious atmosphere that through very adequate lighting keeps you waiting for something that could happen!
SIGMAWORLD
Very interesting.
wjames
Very clever,great capture!!
flavia49
wonderful image!! fantastic work!!! a fav!
mickeyrony
Beautiful photographs taken well and adjusted well for an unequalled finition my Beautiful. I like. Mile mercies to divide ((5++)) Belle photos bien prise et bien ajustée pour une finition inégalée ma Belle . J'aime bien . Mile mercis de partager((5++))
CoreyBlack
This is very cool and totally drew me in! I love the slightly sinister shadow hovering over the left side of the rock outcropping and the superstructure growing out of the top has a wonderfully errie quality to it. When I saw it in thumbnail I thought it was a gallows! Very interesting moody picture.
anianiani
this is so imaginable.....excellent work...