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
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Comments (26)
bimm3d
very interesting info, beautiful photo!!
Madbat
Wotta crabby place that is nyuk, nyuk, nyuk!
goodoleboy
Another superb aerial photo taken of the New York coastline area to add to your already sumptuous portfolio of such images, Lucinda. If they're anything like the human species, I assume the male horseshoe crabs will be completely exhausted after fertilizing 20,000 tiny olive green eggs. And, I would think also that the eggs would be feast and fodder for predators.
Chipka
I love this photo. Back when I was in Prague, I found a bunch of sites telling how to make planet textures and well...areal photographs like this make for some really good "civilized planet" textures...and you'd be surprised at how easy it is to get THIS shot to look like some planet in Star Wars, complete with...well...whatever you'd see from orbit despite the fact that this isn't an orbital photo. Anyway...I really love this shot and the details you've captured. Life looks so interesting from way up there, and I'm looking forward to olive green eggs too! This is gorgeous!
wysiwig
These are so good. It's like you are in a helicopter of hand glider. The green seems almost out of place amid all the urban sprawl.
anianiani
lovable POV.........excellent shot
mariogiannecchini
Excellent image !Amazing what green open space in the middle of the concrete, extreme resistance of nature!
helanker
WOOW!!! This is a fantastic shot Lucinda. I love to google over a city but this is Magic and with such a wonderful clarity. Superbly done.
alanwilliams
Another beauty, such stunning detail
durleybeachbum
A most interesting photo! So glad to see a bit of green..in some aerial views of my town it is sometimes hard to see the houses, we are very lucky, SO FAR!
dochtersions
You surprise me every-time with your amazing looks from above, dear Lucinda! It's like I'm sitting right next to you on the plane. Could it be that way!!!
emmecielle
Magnificent view and fantastic capture, Lucinda! :)
magnus073
Lucinda, as always you leave me in awe of your ability to make these cool captures. Love this one as it really shows literally all the details of the area. Of course your clever idea for the title had me drawn in from the start and it was great the way you came up with it with a play upon words from a actual park fact. This beautiful area really does seem to have it all and of course so does your tribute to it here as you provided this image rich in detail as well as the history behind it.
mgtcs
Fantastic view dear Lucinda, another marvelous capture! Your perceptive is amazing, loved it!
drifterlee
Another cool shot!!!!!!
flavia49
wonderful panorama and postwork!!
annie5
This is my favorite! Interesting capture :)
jendellas
Very interesting info & the view is amazing!!
MaraP
Breath-taking view! Excellent capture!
unstart
I like the filter effect and this is very interesting along with your facts!!
jmb007
belle vue!!
sandra46
FANTABULOUSLY BEAUTIFUL!
npauling
A lovely capture of this part of the world and the name really drew me in and then I found your park fact and I am intrigued. Your nest assignment is to catch a photo of one of the crabs...
JaneEden
Simply amazing arial photography here, it is great on zoom finding out what lies below. Superb capture, well done indeed, hugs Jane xx
clbsmiley
Cool! Great view!
MagikUnicorn
LOVE IT...I SAW BASEBALL FILEDS AGAIN, FOOTBALL FIELD AND THE WONDERFUL 18 HOLES LOVE GOLF..I AM ONE OF THE MOST LUCKY (Did one hole in one last summer) :)