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 (30)
Madbat
Hey!! You know those times when your running and not paying attention, then WHAMMY! You've just run into a tree? Well, this reminds me of that exact moment when your optic nerve starts to reattach itself to your brain at the moment of conciousness and you realise that: 1: you just ran into a tree. 2: Squirrels are laughing hysterically at you. 3: for some reason you can't feel your arms, legs, or torso, but you CAN feel the tree root giving you a cavity search. Ah, summer...
NefariousDrO
I really love this shot, the way the light is coming through those tree branches is wonderful.
myrrhluz
LOL! The squirrels would be irritating but bearable. The tree root...
bimm3d
wonderful image!!
mgtcs
Very, very beautiful capture, great capture my dear friend, excellent work!
magnus073
Great one here Lucinda, and you are right about how cool it looks. For some reason with that lighting, and the pov you chose it makes me think of the Dark Shadows series ;)
jocko500
very wonderful shot
Minda
This is Very beautiful capture lucinda i really like it...
alessimarco
~A fabulously framed shot!~
jayfar
This is beautiful.
rainbows
Great capture, Lucinda. Excellent work. Hugs, Diane. xx
Blush
Actually I think this is beautiful Love how the light shines through the trees A fav with me sweetie.... I got up 2 new ones drop by when ya can Hugs Susan~
durleybeachbum
LOL at Madbat! I love the tracery of the leaves.
alanwilliams
a moment of real beauty
mariogiannecchini
The evening has some very beautiful moments!Wonderful shot , very beautiful atmosphere !
dochtersions
Is this become a special patron around the moon. Very creative, dear Lucinda! A great reminder of the walk :)
vaggabondd
Oh I love this my friend, it is like something is calling you in this image, great shot and post work
annie5
Really beautiful capture Lucinda! :)
jendellas
Captured the evening very well!!!
flavia49
fascinating
drifterlee
Gorgeous shot!
goodoleboy
Through a square hole, brightly! Neat night shot!
SIGMAWORLD
Excellent capture!
sandra46
amazing, gorgeous picture
emmecielle
Fabulous shot and wonderful atmosphere! :)
clbsmiley
Nice post and comments!! glad to see new posts!! LOL
npauling
A wonderful capture with a super atmosphere to it. The poem really goes well with it too.
bebert
superb mood
anianiani
A great picture ...
CoreyBlack
Fantastically atmospheric and eerie shot. It really drew me in and is kind of mesmerizing. Love it, and the poem.