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 (26)
MagikUnicorn
Beautiful shot I want more NY pictures :) and Ireland too later :) Have a good trip
Chipka
What a shot! I really need to catch up on viewing, commenting and just being ON Renderosity, and this is one of the gems I've missed coming across, and I'm glad to see it now! The colors and the POV are fantastic and I love the shimmery curtain of water in the fountain, and to top it all off, there's Radio City Music Hall right there. How cool is that!? This is really great and I look forward to seeing more New York shots! And yay! More overseas travel coming up soon! Fantastic! Oh yeah, and I still owe you email, but I'm gonna just go on and finish this comment first.
mgtcs
WOW...This is a marvelous capture my friend, perfect POV, thank you for sharing! Well done!
alanwilliams
wonderfully layered picture. Enjoy your travels, looking forward to some interesting postings
Bossie_Boots
Safe journey this is awesome superb capture thanks or sharing !!
wysiwig
This is a great picture and the first one I've seen without Prometheus in it. Lucky girl gets to go to Ireland. Don't forget the Guinness and the Blarney Stone. We await a full report when you get back. Have a blast!
jayfar
A lovely shot of moving water. Enjoy your trip.
durleybeachbum
Have a wonderful time! That bit of red neon really anchors the shot.
jendellas
Lovely capture. Hope you have a wonderful time, bringing back loads of pics :o)
dochtersions
Oh, this is great, my friend. Wonderful memories you will have from this trip and from your dear sister, Leslie. Let's go girl (to Ireland). But I hope to 'speak you' before! And don't forget your camera ;D
rainbows
Wonderful capture, travel safe and bring back loads of shots of Ireland. It is a beautiful place. Hugs. Di. xx
flavia49
excellent capture!!
magnus073
Very nice capture of the founatin here Lucinda, love the pov you went with. This was a great idea to revisit your trip from last year as it gives you a chance to share more images with us from all the pics you told me about taking ;) Sounds like your going to be really busy and can't wait to see more photos from NYC and the Ireland
helanker
AWWW! You took this shot in such a wonderful POV. I really like it alot. The water falling looks fantastic.
annie5
Splendid shot Lucinda! Enjoy your trip and comeback with pictures :)
mariogiannecchini
Wonderful capture of the fountain , Lucinda !Splendid reflections !
Madbat
Ireland?? Lucky you! I'm jealous!
drifterlee
Beautiful shot!
mickeyrony
NEW YORK .. Hmmm So nice to look at There Things. Congratulations again and many thanks for sharing your joys my Beautiful Happy holidays to both ((5 + +)) NEW YORK .. Hummm So nice things there to look at . Bravo encore et mille mercis de partager tes joies ma Belle Bonne vacances à toutes deux ((5++))
sandra46
wonderful shot, this is a really beautiful fountain
goodoleboy
Stellar POV, contrast and reflective water effects in this ultra stellar shot of the waterfall and fountains, Lucinda! Like Marilyn on her many trips, glad you can afford to go traveling.
npauling
A beautiful capture of this lovely fountain. The water looks so lovely and soft too. How wonderful for you and your sister to go travelling together. I'm sure you will have fun.
Minda
Very Beautiful capture lucinda i cant wait to see more pics of NY...:)
jocko500
got to watch out for the little people there in Ireland. very lovely shot
vaggabondd
beautiful capture my friend,I can't wait to see more, espically from Ireland
jarmila
beautiful and interesting capture, lovely reflections