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 (36)
anianiani
EXCELLENT SHOT AGAIN AND DEDICATION....on the way the clouds following us...
mgtcs
WOW....What a wonderful view, spectacular capture and dedication! Love it a lot!
annie5
WOW! This is a wonderful shot! Very spectacular and unique :)
jocko500
this is wonderful for a wonderful image... praying for his mom
PassionateGuy
Definitely A fantastic capture and unique in every way
tennesseecowgirl
Thinking of you too Dave hugsss beautiful shot.
goodoleboy
Stellar surreal-like black and white contrast and depth in this capture of the striated cloud effects, Lucinda!
psyoshida
Wonderful clouds beautiful shot. The colors are amazing. A beautiful and thoughtful dedication for a friend in need.
alessimarco
An excellent cloudscape! Nice postwork!
magnus073
Lucinda, you are such a sweety and literally have me fighting back the tears as I type this. Thank you for this lovely dedi for my Mom, and including her in your thoughts with Leslie touched me so much as I know how close you two are. It's easy to see why this one is one of your favorite shots as it gives one the feeling of going higher than anyone has gone before. You almost expect to see the pearly gates of Heaven pop into veiw at any moment. Thanks so much and big hugs.
BenBischop
Beautiful, Dave Is Cool...!!
MaraP
Outstanding! 5+
prutzworks
cool cloodscape and postwork
durleybeachbum
Lots of great animals in those clouds! A wonderful pic.
jayfar
Great postwork - wonderful outcome.
helanker
WOW! What a beautiful shot thi is. Marvellous atmosphere. SO beautiful. My very best wishes for Daves mom.
dochtersions
What an impressive photo, Lucinda. This upload is a uniquely relevant dedi. For both, the mother of Dave as Dave himself.
alanwilliams
a wonderful skyscape
Madbat
Hey, did you know that every time you break through a cloud layer an angel has to open his emergency chute?!
flavia49
fabulous sky!!
jendellas
Beautiful sky, hope all is well with Daves mum. xxx
drifterlee
Beautiful dedication!!!!!!!
unstart
A fascinating photo!!
sandra46
terrific shot! i like those clouds! great dedi for Dave!
jmb007
splendide ciel!!
vaggabondd
I see why you like it so much, it is beautiful
emmecielle
Fantastic image and lovely dedi!
MagikUnicorn
Gorgeous shot...and dedi for Dave
jascorpio
Magnificent!!!
mikeerson
Dave is a great guy, wish he's post - lol... I love his childhood stories of others. It's been quite a while since I seen a new post from him... and it was quite a while earlier in the year, I thought he needed some encouragement, so I told him a couple stories as when I was a kid. I know of no one else like Dave that just loves to look at art and comment - great guy, nice dedi to him. and thank you for saying hi in my gallery... I read a little on your bio, your seen above the clouds quite a bit - lol... I've been in an airplane little more than a handfull of times, but none of my experiences were like the first. the first, my Uncle Haronld took me up in a plane and flew straight up and over, and a barrel roll - scarey - lol