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 (35)
mgtcs
What a wonderful POV my friend, the lighting is marvelous, thank you for sharing my dear! ***
KatesFriend
Cool perspective.
clbsmiley
Good One my dear friend. :) :) :)
goodoleboy
Now why did I expect from the title to see a photo of a submarine submerging into the depths of the ocean? Must be my military mind. Yes, it would be nice to see your offerings and comments more often on Renderosity, but if you're busy, you're busy. But I digress. Very cool POV and general ambience in this pic of the shopping center's configuration of angles, beams and escalators, Lucinda.
jocko500
this is lovely
wotan
Beautiful POV and render... very creative!
jayfar
Super light, shadow and angles here Lucinda, lovely shot.
durleybeachbum
A truly superlative photo!!
wysiwig
Superb image. Wonderful play of light and shadow, color and shape, with just a touch of filter post work. Excellent work.
rainbows
Wonderful picture Lucinda, all the better for having the person in it. Excellent work. Hugs. Di. xx
Bossie_Boots
Dont worry about commenting this is really superb the Pov is fantastic !!
dochtersions
Such great POV, and a very special mood in this shot, dear Lucinda. Overlooking this world, seems futuristic and very special. Especially with that accent, on head and the can in hand.
fallen21
Excellent capture!
helanker
Argh! One can be dizzy looking down there. What a marvellous POV so Excellent. Yea, dont worry about the commendings. We will understand. :)
alanwilliams
an interesting shot full of good shapes and atmospheric lighting
blondeblurr
Thanks for sharing all those Ireland pix @ face-book, fascinating Lucinda ... one could almost be feeling a slight vertigo sensation here - fine image with the occasional touch of colour, BB
annie5
Great perspective..ext capture! :)
magnus073
This is really a cool and well thought out capture Lucinda, the pov you chose for this was simply perfect. (Also love the title). Will add you to my facebook and be sure and check out more of your photos there
mariogiannecchini
Fantastic POV and great perspective , Lucinda !I sent friend request on facebook !Wonderful image !
drifterlee
Cool POV!!!!!
flavia49
fantastic POV and marvelous picture!
jendellas
I see she has a drink with her, most prob needs when reaches the bottom, great capture!!!
emmecielle
Fantastic image, Lucinda! Wonderful perspective! :)
sandra46
precious image here! terrific POV
Feliciti
excellent POV !! great capture too !!
MagikUnicorn
Gorgeous point of view :)
npauling
What a super capture and it looks a long way down to get an ice cream. A good place to have a stand I would think. You took this from a great angle.
vaggabondd
This capture is stunning, to catch only one person in the image is awesome and the pov is outstanding not to mention all of the colors. this is beautiful :)
bobrgallegos
Awesome POV! Great light and composition.
mickeyrony
Have looks like a video game as my Beatiful . Bravo's highly successful element of surprise. Congratulations again and many thanks ((5 + +)) Ont se croirait dans un jeu vidéo comme ,ma Belle . Bravo l'effet de surprise très réussit . Bravo encore et mille mercis ((5++))