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 (32)
Faemike55
Wonderful capture and great effects LC's AIW and ATTLG are still my favorite novels
jocko500
that us alright. this is cool shot too. I like that truck too.
anianiani
Very difficult shot..Excellent effort..
wysiwig
"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here." I'm beginning to understand what the Cat meant. Curiouser and curiouser!
durleybeachbum
As long as no one stole a rattle. It is also a very handsome and solid car!
jayfar
Great title and a great capture.
Madbat
If that's you, you seem to have been sat on by n'elephant. Check for telltale footprints!
fallen21
Awesome capture!
blinkings
She's a beaut mate.
rainbows
A wonderful capture, Dear Lucinda. Glad you had a good time with Jock., Hugs. Di. xx
evinrude
OUTSTANDING!
Bossie_Boots
Wow this is fantastic !!
emmecielle
Fabulous capture, Lucinda! Great details and fantastic reflections! :)
Feliciti
really a cool car and the reflections of you too !!great capture!!
magnus073
First of all Lucinda let me say how much I love the title, and what a clever idea this was to play with the reflections. Let me get it out of the way and say that it is a cool old truck, but the focal point of the image is of course you and Jock. It sounds like you had a wonderful time there at the gallery, and I only wish it was closer so I too could have gone.
annie5
Great capture and reflection! :)
helanker
WOW! an excellent shot here. I love the fun reflections and the tiny story too. Congatulations with your new painting. I like it alot. :-)))
Sea_Dog
Great shot - I love the POV. Very clever with the reflections in the bumper, too.
mariogiannecchini
Wonderful capture, Lucinda! Great details and fantastic reflections! Fantastic shot !
NetWorthy
Creative idea, nicely captured. Thanks for sharing!
jendellas
Made me think of when me & my cousin used to call ourselves "little fatties" when we saw our reflection in the side of cars :o)
drifterlee
Very cool old car!
Lashia
Interesting POV, love the green of the car- thanks for sharing! :) And you should check out the Photography Story Challenge!
mickeyrony
He has a paintm beautiful and still forms, surpasses the future as past. Congratulations etr many thanks for sharing ((5 + +)) Il a une peinture superbe et toujours les formes d,antan surpasse l'avenir comme . Bravo et mille mercis de partager ((5++))
dragonmuse
A fun POV :) This a 53 chev? I love going to car shows too.. have albums of photos from them.
goodoleboy
Fantastic POV employed in the pic of the old 1950's Chevy, Lucinda! Was it parked up on a hill? Love the reflections in the super shiny chrome. Auto shows are fun and educational, or else I wouldn't have thousands of photos from those events stored in my voluminous files. Gotta start posting them again.
npauling
A very impressive bumper view you have captured here and it is great to see you and Jock having a great day out. The reflections are gorgeous and the lighting excellent.
mgtcs
This is a wonderful capture Lucinda, marvelous car and reflexions, very cool shot with these lighting and the shiny, wonderfully done!
flavia49
marvelous picture!!
dochtersions Online Now!
A MARVELOUS SHOT. i WAS LOOKING FOR YOU IN THE CHROME, AND i GUESS i FOUND YOU, DEAR lUCINDA! (SORRY cAPSlOCK ;-))