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 (41)
flavia49
fanatstic capture and POV!!
Madbat
So how many weirdo's actually climb up that cable? Or, better yet, how many people do they scrape up who tried to climb up?
sandra46
absolutely beautiful! and a perfect dedi for Corey ... and I add my best vibs, too!
alanwilliams
i love everything about this
jocko500
I pray for him... did you try to sell the Brooklyn Bridge to some one or did some ont try to sell you the bridge. it is a true story of some one buying the Brooklyn Bridge. Bet he feel bad. hope they caught the crook? Anyway this is a lovely shot of the bridge
psyoshida
Wonderful shot of my all time favorite bridge. A very interesting and detailed POV. It really makes a great graphic. I don't know Corey but I hope the best for him.
anianiani
fantastic shot..nature covered with net works.......excellent POV
eekdog
really a nice bridge capture, cool pov. also like the design of it/ steve
anahata.c
I can only be back for one comment per gallery right now, so it's never easy to know what to choose. I chose this even though you have so many I loved, because it was a beautiful capture of a city I know you love (and one of its landmark structures), and because it was also for Corey. Well, the word is that Corey will be operated on this week rather than before---something I found out only recently (and perhaps you knew by now). But it doesn't matter: Your message holds for him, no matter when, and our wishes all go to him for a full recovery and the best healing. And a beautiful image it is! It really is a play between deep shadows and the beautiful sharp light on its members, spans & girders, etc. The large meshwork shines in front of the stone arch behind it---a very real, true and beautiful contrast, and true to anyone who's seen that bridge in person. (Do you know the poem by Hart Crane, on the Brooklyn Bridge? "How many dawns, chill from his rippling rest..." He wrote & wrote to capture that magnificent beast, and you get the feeling he never could get it all, it was so big to him.) And yes, if Corey were in NYC, this is the kind of sight he'd chronicle for us. A beautiful capture, sweeping but intimate, and I hope it finds you well these days, inside & out. I owe you a letter(to your wonderful letter), I've been recovering and late as all get-out, but I'll write back, a promise! But I hope all is well with you & your family, and congratulations on your niece's acting! It sounded wonderful. A good fall to you, since your summer was anything but cool...in fact, this image must've seemed a relief with all that heat around you. At least this was up were it's cool, lol...
Xlars
Wow ... excellent capture!
wysiwig
You have such a wonderful eye for design. Outstanding POV, unique.