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
HEY! I see ELVIS! (kidding!)
prutzworks
just cool
Chipka
WOW! What a shot! WOW! It's like walls of light shimmering between things that are impossible to describe. I love every detail of this, including the little guy from Ice Age! He's the perfect touch! I love the way I'm utterly confused as to whether I'm looking OUT at the world, or looking IN at the world and seeing all of it reflected behind me. What a shot, and the light and clouds all look as if you've photographed different walls or membranes between realities, and well...that's always a great thing to see. This is amazing, and I'm also intrigued at how car washes and truck yards seem to provide rich materials. WOW. Who would have thought that?
mariogiannecchini
Great reflections and beautiful colors , Lucinda !
wysiwig
What Chip said! It looks like a mural. Good eye, this came out great! I saw Mayor Julien Castro on The Colbert Report last night. Seems like a bright young man.
durleybeachbum
STUNNING and wonderfully complex image! SO well seen! (I've never been in a car wash!)
DarkStormCrow
Cool shot, well done...
jendellas
Wow that is such a clever & interesting shot!!!
magnus073
You must have put this up right as I shut everything down Lucinda, but that way it gave me a really cool way to start my day off with a smile :) Great capture of this cool reflection, you did fantastic spotting this. It is almost like looking through a dimensional door way
jmb007
superbe photo!!
unstart
What a splendid catch..wonderful reflections!!
annie5
Cool reflections! Fantastic shot, Lucinda :)
sandra46
excellent image, great capture! those reflections are stunning! I also like taking reflections, they're often very satisfactory
npauling
What a cool capture this is with the great reflections making for a super effect. Very well spotted.
flavia49
splendid capture!!
tennesseecowgirl
Super reflections you caught... Have a wonderful 4th of July weekend!
jocko500
wonderful reflexions
mickeyrony
A mirror tells its visions in a glance as more deepens. Hummmm… When have is looked in a mirror our attention wants all to see our imperfections like. But when have takes a time to admire this that there is in a mirror. Our ideas first differ a little from the first thoughts like. Cheer beautiful catch of sight ((5++)) Un miroir raconte ses visions en un regard comme plus approfondit . Hummmm... Quand ont se regarde dans un miroir notre attention veut tout voir nos imperfections comme . Mais quand ont prend un temps pour admirer ce qu'il y a dans un miroir . nos idées première diffèrent un peu des premières pensées comme . Bravo belle prise de vue ((5++))
goodoleboy
OMG, what at first looked like a collage of layered images blended upon one another turned out to be a single shot taken at an advantageous spot at the car wash! What a gorgeous montage of multifaceted reflected images in this fortuitous foto, Lucinda!
dochtersions
this is fantastic seen and captured, Lucinda!
auntietk
Wowwwwwww!!! I LOVE this! Outstanding image, appropriately confusing. Nicely done!!!
mgtcs
What a splendid capture my dear friend, excellent work! ***
psyoshida
Now that is very cool! I love it too! What a wonderful photographer's eye you have, amazing. Car washes can be fun and rewarding places and not just for your car. Brilliant shot!
e-brink
Tremendous photography. A very interesting image.
rainbows
Great reflections and a wonderful capture, Lucinda. Hugs. Di. xx
misskitty
Stunning shot! Everytime I start to type, I scroll back up and see something else. It's like one of those 'seek and finds'. Incredible!!
greensleeves81
A matrix by mirror, light, colour! Interesting to see the place where you work.
kftate
This is really cool! Fantastic capture!!
clbsmiley
This is GREAT!!!!!!
anianiani
Fantastic shot with many visuals..a great one.