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 (40)
MagikUnicorn
Sweet shot...good eyes
alessimarco
A beautiful shot! Lovely flowers and a colorful background of flowers! A great gift for Cheryl!
magnus073
What a wonderful image this is Lucinda, you really did great. The sharpness of the image and the way the white flower contrasts so well with everything around it is almost symbolic in a way. Maybe it's your way of showing Cheryl that even though it feels at times were surrounded by darkness that if we only take the time to look close enough we can find that ray of hope as you found this beautiful white flower among the others. Knowing how close your are to Cheryl made this all the more special for me and she is such a sweet lady who deserves this dedi and our prayers. So glad I took time to visit your gallery before going off to bed. Hugs
Chipka
WOW! These are so wonderfully delicate and frail looking; not too frail to survive, but frail in that orchid sort of way. I really like the details of this and the way the light seems to dance around and caress surfaces and edges rather than just plunk down on them. There's also a dreamy quality to this; it's crisp and clean, but not exactly of this world...well...I mean it is of this world, but not exactly in the way that you'd commonly see if you only look at things on that surface/casual level. This is a particularly touching dedication as well, especially since it's so in character in terms of who it's dedicated to. I love that sort of sensitivity. This is quite nice and I'm glad to start catching up with this image. Oh, and I should say that I really love the background, especially since most of the color is there rather than in the foreground as expected. Don't you just love it when stuff comes at you that way? It's always such a refreshing surprise, and I just love refreshing surprises. Proxy comment for Corey since he's sitting next to me, twiddling with an ACE bandage: That's cool. I like those really skinny and long stems and big petals. They look like kites. That purplish lavender color in the background looks really dreamy. Corey will be making more of his own comments later, but right now he's still a bit on the tired side, but since he's sitting next to me, he at least gets to see cool Renderosity stuff.
clbsmiley
THIS is great from a marvelous friend that listens to me rant and rave about life. I make a good ear sometimes, but sometimes I need one... and Lucinda has been great!! So much appreciated, and accompianed by a wonderful picture, you couldn't ask for more. I so appreciate my friends I have made at Ren. it has been great. This is a beautiful poppie.. I haven't seen a white one before.. COOL And the lovely Texas bluebonnets... :) clbsmiley Cheryl ;0
myrrhluz
You are a great friend, Cheryl. I hope we can get together in November.
Digitaleagle
Very beautiful love the lighting and the shadows on the pedals adds a certain dramatic quility to the shot, excellent depth and beautiful background color!
anianiani
The meaning of beautiful....
micturn
very cool, nice compo
blinkings
Perfect subject and depth of field. My only slight nit is the horizon. Even if that is a hill, I wonder if it would better evened off. Either way its lovely.
durleybeachbum
What a superb pic! Most unusual and very beautiful!
jayfar
A very beautiful flower and lovely dedi.
helanker
What a wonderful couple of poppies and such a beautiful dedication to your friend.
wysiwig
Outstanding sharpness. It stands out wonderfully well from the background and the lighting is superb. Perfect.
Haydaad
Beautiful close-up shot. The overal scene is outstanding. Love the colors. Thanks for sharing.
dochtersions
This is so lovely for Cheryl, which is such a fabulous lady and friend.
mariogiannecchini
Superb image, delicate colors, for a great tribute to a friend! Have a splendid week !!!
drifterlee
Beautiful shot and dedication!
flavia49
fabulous capture and dedication!!
alanwilliams
absolutely superb, the colours the focus and the composition work wonderfully together.
annie5
Very delicate..great shot and dedication! :)
emmecielle
Great image and dedication! :)
Meisiekind
Marvelous image Lucinda. WOW - So elegant! Great dedi to a wonderful person!
jendellas
Wonderful dedi, beautiful flowers, to a really lovely lady. xx
PassionateGuy
You are a very thoughtful person and i do admire that about you. You already know i think what you post here is fanatastic
stonelight
Beautiful flowers. Very delicate capture!
unstart
A beautiful photo with the white flower as the center of attraction!!
jmb007
belle photo!
sandra46
SUPER COOL IMAGE!
goodoleboy
A DSLR apparently used in this excellently focused and contrasted photograph, Lucinda!