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 (38)
jayfar
Fantastic set of pics and a lovely dedi.
durleybeachbum
Great shots all!!
morningglory
Lots' of color and action.
TomDart
I'll join the appreciative crowd.
clbsmiley
Great show!! Happy Birthday Harry! :)
bimm3d
superb!!
Minda
WOW! THIS IS EXCELLENT SHOT.....hAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU..
magnus073
Wow Lucinda, these pics are so amazing and make a great birthday collage. This really must have been a spectacular airshow as it seems there was more excitment than you could keep your eyes on. Hope you have more photos from it to share with us soon.
dochtersions
A spectacular show you've captured, dear Lucinda. A fantastic birthday present for Harry! At first I was shocked. I thought it was a real accident.
flavia49
WOW! WOW! WOW! spectacular!! fabulous shots and dedi!!
jendellas
Amazing shots, wonderful Birthday dedi!!!
IO4
Great shots and compilation:)
KateBlack10
Awesome shots and love the layout!
0rest4wicked
A happy day to Harry! Phenomenal collage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Happy 2011!!!!!!!!
alanwilliams
great shots beautifully put together
drifterlee
Fantastic shots!!!!!
mgtcs
What a wonderful collage and dedication my friend, superbly done, loved it!
emmecielle
Wonderful collage and dedi! :)
npauling
What wonderful captures you got at this airshow and the blue sky really sets the planes and parachutists off so well. You got some great formations there too. A super collage for Harry.
sandra46
Splendid image! Happy New Year!!!
goodoleboy
OMG, after viewing these sensational airshow pics, I doubt if I'll ever be able to equal them with my paltry captures of things aeronautical, Lucinda. Love every one of the shots, with their essence of action, aerobotics and smoke. And those sky jumpers are a treat all by themselves That said, thanks so much for the BD dedication and for remembering me in such an appropriate way. I will treasure this for millenia.
myrrhluz
Your captures are never paltry Harry. I love your closeup shots of all the aircraft and of the sky jumpers. I remember taking these from work (off duty), though I'm not sure about the explosion, and didn't get any closeups of anything. I was half asleep when I posted this and forgot to say that the red jets are the Red Arrows. You can read about them at http://www.raf.mod.uk/reds/ I think the blue ones are a French team but I'm not sure.
Madbat
Great shots! But aren't those guys supposed to jump BEFORE they ass catches on fire? Just askin....
MagikUnicorn
LOVE IT
jocko500
Happy bday Harry and these is wonderful shots
wysiwig
I've seen everything you've posted here and you have been holding out on us. These are outstanding! Fantastic captures every one. A wonderful gift for Harry.
helanker
WOW! What a super collage for Harry!!! Happy Birthday Goodoleboy. :)
ShadowsNTime
Wow Lucinda! These are all exciting and wonderful shots! The perfect captures for Harry's BD. Thank you so much for the lovely comment and the quote from Gandhi (one of my favs) Believe me I am not able to do as much as I used to do but I can remind others so thats just about my main contribution now. I hope this finds you well and that you receive ultimate blessings in 2011. Happy Birthday Harry, Happy New Year to you both!
Chipka
These are marvelous. Such a collage. It's all so exciting, and well...airshows are so exciting, especially when they've got as much going on as here! This is great, and a bit odd since I'm listening to music to Bram Stoker's Dracula while looking at this. What an odd juxtaposition, but then, my life seems to be about odd juxtapositions. Brooding, East-European music aside, I love this collage and the brilliance, the excitement, the sheer volume of life in it. It's also a perfect birthday dedication, quite amazing. This rocks. Well, it swirls and holds formation too. Yeah, I like this.
CoreyBlack
These are great! And a very nice dedication. Happy New Year!