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 (31)
Sea_Dog
Very nice shot. Well done
wotan
Great colors... poor fishes : )
JohnDelaquiox
@M@Z1NG C@PTUR3!!!
blinkings
Did you notice that as they swim, they constantly poo!!!!!
myrrhluz
No, I missed that. Something for my next visit. LOL!!!
vaggabondd
OMG This is just crazy good, this is a amazing capture my friend, streight to my favs
goodoleboy
Amazing underwater capture of the hippopotamus, just casually throwing, or resting, its weight around, Lucinda. Good sense of depth with the fish swimming about. And I like the title, something you might find as the title of a kid's show on Saturday morning television.
annie5
An awesome underwater image! Super capture (poor fishes..lol) :)
LovelyPoetess
Wow, I've never seen one from this angle before, wonderful capture!!! : )
magnus073
Now this is what I call a cool capture Lucinda, you really made my night with this one. Knew by the title it would be something fun, but had no idea how amazing it could be. This is one of the best under water captures I've seen.
Madbat
Well, after reading Blinkings comment, I now know why 'Hippo And Friends' never caught on as a kids series!
anianiani
Excellent picture of WATERWORLD..
jayfar
Fab shot Lucinda and quite a rare one!
durleybeachbum
What an unusual pic! marvellous!
jendellas
Wow, this is an amazing pic, wonderful capture!!!
renderix
cool shot!
dochtersions
What a very great capture, Lucinda. Amazing, looks a bit like a fractal in a way. Stunning POV too!
helanker
WOW! Lucinda! That is a really fantastic shot. I like it very much. :)))
drifterlee
This is wonderful. The hippo is smiling!
mariogiannecchini
Wonderful capture , great colors ! Splendid work , Lucinda, happy sunday !
flavia49
fascinating image!!
emmecielle
Magnificent capture, Lucinda! Splendid colours! :)
sandra46
stunning capture! aat first I thought it was a Vue image, I had to look at it twice! well done!
npauling
A super capture of this sleeping hippo and the fish don't look to be at all afraid of him. Very well spotted.
Ford604
nice capture
alessimarco
~A truly amazing capture!!!~
jocko500
never saw a photo of one underwater. never saw a filmed one. guess they have them . real cool looking
wysiwig
What a spectacular image! I've seen them in the water before but only the tops of their ears. Lucky you to have a zoo like this. Outstanding capture.
clbsmiley
Wow!! Wow!! This is a really excellent capture!! :)
tennesseecowgirl
Dumb question but is the hippo real??? thats such a cool shot.