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 (34)
alessimarco
~Very cool capture...and in focus!~ :)
anianiani
a special one......cinematic..
Jean-Luc_Ajrarn
A spectacular close-up. :)
Madbat
I'm still waiting for a camera! lol. yearn-yearn
wysiwig
Wow, you can see the pores in his nose. Very crisp and clear. Nice reflections on the glasses. You obviously take better care of your slides than I do.
jayfar
This is a great 'macro' shot, you couldn't have got much closer!
durleybeachbum
My point and shoot does 2" macro, which is why I shan't be getting a hefty DSLR!
mariogiannecchini
Very beautiful shot !
flavia49
fantastic POV and "macro"!!
alanwilliams
sharp as a lemon excellent shot
KateBlack10
AWESOME shot! This is so cool and no macro lense - WOW
helanker
Excellent shot and awesome colored copper mustache. :-)
magnus073
It really did turn out clear Lucinda, and it seems you proved him wrong as you know your equipment well ;) Keep the faith as I'm sure that macro lens is in your future
unstart
A wonderful shot..love the subtle reflections in the glasses!!
mgtcs
Amazing capture here, Lucinda, excellent portrait, the lighting is prefect!
drifterlee
Cool shot!!
jendellas
Amazing closeup!!!!
dochtersions
Well, Lucinda, you seem a paparazzi, such close (LOL) Great nose, big glasses, little mustache :D
jmb007
beau portrait!!
sandra46
superb, outstanding image! i love the POV
goodoleboy
Secret Service Man, Secret Service Man.... Stellar scanning and clarity, color, and reflective ambience in this slide reincarnation from many years ago, Lucinda! As for the title, that's exactly what I tell the optometrist when she tells me to look at the eye chart with my right eye.
npauling
Oh he of little faith, it has turned out a beauty. I bet it surprised him. I'd love to have a proper macro lens too,[sigh]. What a shame we can't have everything we want. lol.
lior
I wish you'll get a real macro lens. An excellent job!
bimm3d
cool shot, gorgeous idea!!
ragouc
Cool close up
Chipka
I love this shot! It's so unexpected and in a way, hyper-real. The depth and the color is marvelous, and so is the cropped nature of the subject matter. Truncated portraits...I love those and see too few of them. I like a good portrait, a good full face, but there are times when something like a facial fragment really speaks wonders and opens up an entire world to explore...what are those eyes looking at? I might ask...what does the air smell like? These are the kinds of things that always grab me in some way when an image reveals something, but not everything. Marvelous. Simply marvelous work.
psyoshida
What a unique and wonderful portrait! I especially love the blue, blue background. Must be a movie star, No?
jocko500
if you can not buy a mirco len which will cost at lest $500 then go and get a Canon Close-Up len which fixs Canon and Nikon cameras. Just go to the camera shop with your camera and len and ask for one to fix your camera. It cost betten $70 to $140 and it 1/10 of the weight and size.it about 1 inch thick. I was going to buy one yesterday but the store in lafayette was closed and out of busisse cent june of last year. So I going to Orange,Tx. support to have a good camera shop there?
Osper
Well he was wrong!!!!!
Minda
Excellent close up..