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 (33)
0rest4wicked
Nice reflections in this splendid comp.!
wysiwig
Nice clean lines and wonderful reflections.
MagikUnicorn
Beautiful capture
mgtcs
Wonderful reflexions, fantastic capture my friend, excellent work!
goodoleboy
Terrific POV depicting the marvelous composition of architecture, color, contrast, and geometric forms in this capture, Lucinda! And, definitely, a portable-potty is needed in situations like you experienced.
GailB
Nice. I like the color contrast between the blues and grays of the sky and building on the right and the warm tan of the other building with the rather odd green strips.
npauling
A lovely capture of this architecture with its lovely clean lines and great reflections. I know what you mean about rest rooms, there are never enough any where, I've found.
jocko500
sound like you both was haveing fun. wonderful shot of the building
magnus073
Lucinda this really is one fantastic capture, and I can't get over how epic these buildings look and how crisp the lines in them are here. The reflections really add to this and give the illusion of it extending on forever. Loved your story about the bathrooms and being saved by a car wash, although I'm sure at the time you didn't see the humor in it.
Madbat
A park with no potty is no picknic!
Chipka
Oh, I can tell you quite a few stories about the endless searches for restrooms in both English and in another language with punctuation marks on top of everything! But I'll refrain, and instead focus on this image! You do urban photography incredibly well. I love all of the lines and angles in this, but what really grabs me is the reflected light from the more glassy/modern building, slanting across some of the bricks of its more brick-ish neighbor! The color contrasts are marvelous; glass always provides such rich coloration and bricks are always so warm...I love that visual byplay. In short this is so well composed and so well captured that it's definitely worth a number of visits; and well...my inner writer is stirring and asking itself what stories lurk behind those windows! Yeah, this is a goody! I like it!
helanker
What a beautiful capture this is. I love the green on the house together with the yellow wall and the reflections are marvellous.
jayfar
Well captured but not a place for me!
durleybeachbum
Great composition!! Our town council is cost-cutting by closing public conveniences, would you believe! They went on a bus tour of them to decide which ones...and this a a major holiday resort.
alanwilliams
beautiful graphic image
dochtersions
A very special point of view, dear friend, who luckily was saved by a car wash. I have to laugh a lot about your 'story', cause I recognize this, really do (LOL) Wishing you much fun in the park, Lucinda (with her beautiful name ;-))
mariogiannecchini
Ottimo punto di vista per una bella prospettiva di questi edifici! Bella resa dei colori , definizione e profondità dell'immagine ! Buona domenica e buona settimana , Lucinda , un abbraccio dall'Italia. Good point of view for a better view of these buildings! Better color rendition, image definition and depth! Good Sunday and good week, Lucinda, a hug from Italy.
flavia49
fabulous capture!! colors are so rich and the reflections so crisp!!
jmb007
superbe photo!!
jendellas
Lovely sharp photo. We are the same as Andrea re Public con :o) we too are a seaside town!!!!
DarkStormCrow
Excellent shot , composition and reflections, very wel done...
unstart
Great shot with the reflection and contrasting textures!!
drifterlee
Awesome shot!
sandra46
i'm very partial for cityscpaes and this is very good, i love the reflections and the special mood of the saturated shot
emmecielle
Fantastic capture! Excellent perspective and lighting! :)
auntietk
LOVE the abstract composition and the reflections. This is excellent!
NitraLing
Nice shot and comp!!!!!!!
wjames
Beautiful capture!!!
psyoshida
Wonderful shot. I love how the the 2nd half of the High Line is reflected in the Caledonia Apartments even adding a blue door, unseen in the 1st half. That blue sky against the mustard is really striking. Great photography!
jascorpio
Lovely capture!!!