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 (32)
myrrhluz
When I was preparing my dad's slides of daylilies, there were some that were just too damaged by time for me to get them to look close to the way that they did when new. I wanted his image to be as much as I could, his work, with just manipulation to get it to appear as it did, 44 years ago and a little bit of cropping. On one of the images, I just couldn't get the color right, but I did think it had potential and started playing with filters. I like the idea of an image for Kate that is in a way, from both my dad and me. I sent it to her on facebook, but I thought you all might like to see it too.
durleybeachbum
Superb! I love the vibrancy, and I should like a wall hanging like this! It would be great in acid-dyed wools.
jayfar
This is absolutely beautiful Lucinda and a happy birthday to Kate from me!
dochtersions
What a very beautiful result you've got by doing this post work, dear Lucinda. It's absolute gorgeous. I love it, and I'm sure Kate will love this too ;-). Thanks for sharing, Lucinda, it looks like a wonderful painting to me.
flavia49
wonderful colors, image and dedication!
dakotabluemoon
Looks just like a painting awesome job on this one.
fallen21
Fantastic picture.
wotan
Lovely colors and composition... really beautiful!
Bossie_Boots
Oh wow this one is incredible 1!
magnus073
Oh, what a lovely and memorable dedi for Kate this one is Lucinda. Can't get over what a kind and thoughtful person you are and how you managed to make this pic so perfect.
helanker
WOnderful shot and texture. Looks fantastic. Happy birthday to Kate :)
jocko500
this is wonderful . love how it came out
jmb007
superbe image!!
mariogiannecchini
Wonderful image , grati colors and postwork ! Happy birthday , Kate !
drifterlee
Gorgeous effect!!!!!!
jendellas
Love what you have done with your dads lillies :o) xx
psyoshida
Oh yes! What a great job you did reviving it. The colors are so beautiful. A lovely birthday gift to Kate. Once again you work your magic in Photoshop with stunning painterly results. Well done. They are just beautiful.
Minda
Its Really beautiful lucinda..
Faemike55
This should be enlarged and hanging on one of your walls, as well as Kate's wall
dragonmuse
Gorgeous!
sandra46
AMAZING CREATION!
vaggabondd
My friend this looks to me like it should be signed and numbered, this is art, beautiful art
wysiwig
Wonderful work on this. It looks like fabric. I agree with Andrea but then great minds think alike.
mgtcs
Gorgeous image, colors and textures my dear, so vivid and beautiful, very sweet dedication to your Dad, amazing work!
goodoleboy
Lovely postwork effect achieved in this stellar birthday foto of the red daylilies, Lucinda!
mickeyrony
Your work touches the wisdom of artof the giants mt beautiful . I will always be a time to appreciate the values of your efforts. A more than excellent. Congratulations and many thanks again I love ((5 + +)) Ton travail effleure la sagesse de l'art des géants ma Belle . Je prendrai toujours un temps pour apprécier les valeurs de tes efforts . Un travail plus que excellent . Bravo encore et mille mercis J'adore ((5++))
Chipka
I really love the way this has a delicious, painted quality to it; the colors are vibrant and quite warm...fantastically relaxing, despite their brilliance. This has the feeling of something fit for a home: something of a reflection of the people who live there and as such it conveys a range of emotions that are worthy of exploration in a story. As a dedication, this works perfectly and like Andrea, I can easily see this rendered as a wall hanging or even a mural...it strikes me as something that should be presented as it is here, in a "frameless" state; it has that nice, expansive quality. Really super work, and as I have a ton of catching up to do, this is a great place to start.
anianiani
Stunning Image..One of ur Best
MagikUnicorn
SWEEEEET
emmecielle
Splendid image and dedi! :)