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
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Comments (25)
jayfar
Clouds always look better from above. Nice shots.
dochtersions
The clouds are very impressive, my dear friend. It's like sitting in the middle. The aircraft wing you've played with, is FANTASTIC! I see f.e. a little ghost in it:).
alanwilliams
what a collection, i love them all and your ariel pictures have been a revelation
magnus073
Wonderful collage Lucinda, you really managed to capture some beautiful clouds. Mies is right about it making you feel like you sitting in the middle. Really like what you did with the pics of the wing, and can safely say if this was what you'd seen on your flight I'd be a bit worried ;)
durleybeachbum
Great manipulations! I really like the wing one!
tennesseecowgirl
Beautiful!
helanker
WOW ! That is an awesome collage Lucinda :-) I like all the shots, the clouds are gorgeous. A wing with alot of nails and two excellent playful images. WOW! so much joy for the same money :-)
mariogiannecchini
Splendid images !Beautiful clouds !And wonderful manipulation !Excellent work!
drifterlee
Gorgeous!!!!!!
unstart
Great clous pix and love the ones you played with!!
jmb007
beau travail!!
mgtcs
WOW....This is a truly fabulous capture, superb collage Linda, marvelous work as usual!
flavia49
excellent work!! wonderful creation!!
sandra46
AMAZING, AWESOME WORK!
alessimarco
A wonderful collage!
goodoleboy
All these fine fotos fall under the cool category, Lucinda, but my favorite is the #3 wing capture, with all those nice sharp geometrical patterns. The last pic shows some oil swirls atop the water in the Gulf of Mexico.
Chipka
I'm such a nerd! Whenever I see clouds from the top, I imagine that I'm flying over the ice planet, Hoth, in George Lucas' The Empire Strikes Back. Hoth is one of my favorite Hollywood planets, and I suspect it's because of the name. There's just something about it. But anyway, enough of my rambling on and on, and on some more about...well...other stuff. I love this group of photos and the manipulation that stems from the very real cloudscape you've captured. I'm really taken with the airplane wing and the rivets...this is, indeed, riveting...(forgive my bad pun habits) and well...in short, I just love this piece of work! Marvelous!
Madbat
See??? THAT'S precisely why I don't fly in airplanes! You always see one of those outside when it gets turbulent!
wysiwig
I really like your cloud images and am jealous. Mine never come out this good. What you have in the bottom image is a Gremlin. These were creatures that were thought to cause planes to malfunction. William Shatner shot one and saved the plane in a Twilight Zone episode in the 1960s (yes, once upon a time they didn't check for those things).
bimm3d
wonderful!!
jarmila
nice and interesting capture and collage, great work,,interesting info,ciao
jendellas
The clouds are beautiful, like big marshmallows :o) Love what you have done with the wings!!!
npauling
I love the cloud formations you have captured and what you have done in the bottom pictures it is amazing what can be done, as the bottom one looks like a real fractal.
emmecielle
Splendid images! :)
kasalin
This is an amazing and a very great work, dear Lucinda !!!!!!!