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
Comments (34)
magnus073
This is a wonderful photo Lucinda, and I'm so glad to see you sharing more pics from your New York trip with us. Very clever idea for a title by the way as the 'Y's really do catch your eye right off the bat. Still the nicest thing about these beautiful photo of New York for me at least is we get to take in all the sites without putting in the 6 hours of walking in the rain ;)
jocko500
love how the light look like is hanging from the tree. wonderful shot
Mayalin
Beautiful... worlds within worlds ...
auntietk
What a super shot! I love all the Ys. Looks like you're branching out! :D
Madbat
Hey, I like that building! It's not raining here, it's snowing and bone cold. I've wrapped myself in live cats in a desperate attempt to keep warm!
bimm3d
very beautiful photo!!
eekdog Online Now!
cool pov capture, nicely taken.
Chipka
WOW! I love the dual worlds look this has...the Ys growing around a ceiling light! WOW! This is such a fantastic piece of brilliant composition. I love the colors and the textures and the inside/outside nature of this whole piece. I'm always intrigued by windows and transparent barriers of any sort--membranes that are semi-permeable in a sense, which is probably why I write so much stuff that takes place in those odd "window spaces" between worlds. This really captures the nature of reality that I like the most: that strange sort of spatial and emotional ambiguity. You're outside, looking in, obviously, and yet in looking in at whatever is in the room behind the glass, you're seeing the outside world behind you! It's like you're being offered a choice of what to see and how to see it, and in looking at this image, I find myself wondering about both worlds. What's going on behind that window and within that room, and simultaneously, what's going on behind the photographer, and thus, behind this picture. This is a "wowzer" shot. And a favorite.
alessimarco
What a totally fabulous capture!!! ~Outstanding~
VEDES
VERY NICE.
anianiani
I like the angle and reflexions of this big shot.......i think this shot will reflect in mind long time, congrads for this value..........*****
jayfar
Well seen Lucinda and I love the reflection of the chandelier.
helanker
What a beautiful shot with the lovely chandelier inside. Makes it all look mysterious in the building. Like another world is in there, even though we know the Y´s are reflections. Wonderful and so well seen.
durleybeachbum
Terrific composition! This is gorgeous!
wysiwig
The reflection is so clear you feel you could walk through the window into the scene. This really is an impressive image. When did they start hangin chandeliers in the trees?
rainbows
Beautiful capture, Lucinda. I hope you didn't get too wet! Hugs. Di. xx
flavia49
amazing capture!!
mariogiannecchini
very beautiful shot , Lucinda ! Impressive image and great reflections ! Happy sunday and week !
annie5
Nice building and POV..well captured! :)
drifterlee
Gorgeous shot!
jendellas
Love the reflection of the tree & lights through the window!!!
sandra46
A REALLY SPLENDID IMAGE! FANTASTIC!!!
vaggabondd
This is so beautiful, I just love it. what a great capture
goodoleboy
Stellar POV employed to depict the fine clarity, reflections and building rococo in this cool capture, Lucinda. Incidentally, Y reminds me of a fork in the road. Which reminds me of that sage comment by Yogi Berra, "when you come to a fork in the road, take it."
0rest4wicked
Well seen!
clbsmiley
Lucinda this is a marvelous capture!! The Y's the reflection oooooo lots of things captured here. Well done!! :) Thanks for all your wonderful comments.. :)
dochtersions Online Now!
A beautiful building, a warm atmosphere and great colors. A very special image. So nice to read you had a wonderful day together, Leslie and you, my friend. Hoping you're weekend was great!!!
alanwilliams
beautifully seen Lucinda and full of interest
anahata.c
I saw this last night after I'd signed off, and almost went back to comment. It's splendid Lucinda. The light quality in the window is shimmering, the beautiful gold & red from the interior (a light on a ceiling) is beautiful (it has an almost coppery patina through the window), the centering of ceiling-light with the window is finely done, the move from dark shadows in the lower half (of the window) to open sky in the upper is more fine seeing, and the "y"s---all those intersections in the trees---are wonderful. And you've framed it simply, by the stone on both sides and on the bottom. A wonderful shot. I love it. Your composition in the window is really fine...And really, though this is the Big Apple, it's a world to itself so could be any city in the world. You look deep in NYC & come back with shots that have total identities of their own...More thoughtful work from you, Lucinda.
francinechristophe
What a fantastic and clever shot ! Congrats !