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)
durleybeachbum
A truly beautiful piece of work! Perfect!!
helanker
Gosh this is such a beautiful capture and postwork. It looks like a painting. Love it.
wysiwig
A super gothic caterpillar turned into such a refined lady. But she's still quite a showoff. Gorgeous capture. The color combination is delicious.
whaleman
Nice image!
fallen21
Fantastic capture.
Thetis
marvelous capture! superb color harmony
dochtersions
This looks very fine and so beautifully, my friend. Indeed like a drawing. You did such a great job on this. I love it. :)
Feliciti
what a beauty !! wonderful captured !!
flavia49
marvelous shot
magnus073
Wow Lucinda, this one is a keeper for sure. This is such a breath taking capture, and one you have to be proud of. You said it best when you compared the colors here to pastels, as they are so soft and beautiful.
Faemike55
Very lovely capture
Bossie_Boots
Wow oh wow incredible !!
0rest4wicked
Nice contrast in color!
jendellas
I think this photo looks like a watercolour, so beautiful. xxx
emmecielle
fantastic capture, Lucinda! Excellent image! :)
ia-du-lin
very beautiful butterfly/flower photo, nice colors
marybelgium
superbe !
mgtcs
Such a sweet image Lucinda, loved the contrast between the purple flower and the orange butterfly, marvelous photo!
drifterlee
GOrgeous shot!
sandra46
EXCELLENT IMAGE!!
goodoleboy
Gorgeous colors, stellar POV, and magnificent focus of the orangy butterfly performing its daily duties atop the pretty flowers, Lucinda.
Blush
Beautiful Would look great in a frame Don't like this new system at all Hope you come see my new one This is a fav Susan~
anianiani
Lovely capture and combination... Excellent again
jocko500
very wonderful shot
vaggabondd
this is beautiful, very nice post work
psyoshida
I agree with mark about the colors. Absolutely exquisite in every way. Well worth the trip. It would look very lovely framed and on your wall. It's so beautiful. Well done!!
clbsmiley
So Beautiful!! Congrats!!
danapommet
This is a beauty and I like the painted look especially on the flowers. Nice!
Kindredsoul
I tried to take photo shots of butterfly the other day three times never came out good you did very well here lovely and perfect!
Cyve
Amazing and beautiful capture !