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 (31)
alessimarco
Really fantastic capture of a complex landscape! Marvelous!!
mgtcs
This is a fantastic landscape my dear friend, astonishing view, loved it a lot! Congratulations! ***
MrsLubner
Spectacular from both the air and ground. A busy place. Stunning shot.
jayfar
This is a great industrial landscape.
helanker
WOW ! I always get so fascinated by air shots. Always make me want to go down and look closer :-D It is such a beautiful and exiting shot Lucinda :-)
durleybeachbum
SO interesting!!
anianiani
A bird who flying and sharing .........excellent
Madbat
Ah good old refineries, we have a few of those here. I never realized Huston was so flat! Holy crap, if your dog ran away it'd take him a week!
flavia49
fantastic view!! wonderful capture!!
magnus073
Great shot of this channel Lucinda, and it gives us a great idea of the epic scale of this area. It's easy to see why it's so busy here, and it looks like it would take literally days just to tour the entire channel area. Never would have thought about the bird islands being formed after they make it wider and deeper, but it's nice to know the birds get something out of it ;) As far as living anywhere near it after reading your write up I think that might not be such a great idea. Thanks for providing all the cool background info here.
tennesseecowgirl
Great shot very impressive view.
unstart
A fantastic aerial shot!!
alanwilliams
this is superb, to see everything laid out before you in such a manner is the stuff of photography and such a pleasure to see.
mariogiannecchini
Fantastic wiev !Impressive, great landscape !
drifterlee
Great aerial view!!!!!!!
jendellas
Amazing view & info!!!
jmb007
belle vue!!
sandra46
FASCINATING, COOL IMAGE!!!!
vaggabondd
nice capture, it looks a little to busy for me though lol. nice capture from a airplane window
goodoleboy
Great Scott, it looks like some kind of gigantic circuit board from way up high, Lucinda! Stellar detail in this foto, but I don't see the Astrodome anywhere in the image.
PassionateGuy
Wow and i do mean woooow this is fantastic.. what a great capture you have here
Richardphotos
from Hobby no doubt.I lived there for four years-4 years too many.I covered 289 stores there in my former work.I was always intrigued by the humongous ships bringing in cars and how they would work 24 hours a day none stop unloading for at least a week .outstanding shot
emmecielle
Fantastic view! Excellent capture! :)
dochtersions
A spectacular shot, my friend!
npauling
A lovely aerial capture of this part of Houston. The details are very clear for me to see.
pspworkshop
Wonderful and great work.
MagikUnicorn
Large view love this :)
jocko500
love the abstract of the image with all it diff textures
wysiwig
Great aerial view. I keep fogetting that Houston is a port city.
NetWorthy
I lived in Houston in the late 70's, early 80's. I absolutely love Texas but I didn't think so much of this place LOL! Thanks for sharing!