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)
durleybeachbum
What a smart car! I love the fancy lihts refelected in the bonnet, and the blue of the buildings. Looking forward to more results!
Kindredsoul
nice to see you posting again, excellent shot of the car!
jayfar
Super night shot.
KatesFriend
Yup, that's how I take pictures too. In the old days that got really expensive with respect to film and its developing. Thank creation for digital photography! It's really amazing how you got this shot with the tree lights gleaming away and reflecting on the car. It's interesting that you mentioned the river since it can be imagined that there is a river of lights painted on the hood. BTW: Lovely looking car too. This whole scene is very enchanting.
Prematos
Fantastic POV, Love the whole capture... You really got a great Eye for shots.
emmecielle
Fantastic night image! Great capture! :)
Sea_Dog
Well done - a very nice shot. I like the composition.
psyoshida
Spectacular lighting and a great POV! The lights from the trees seem to reflect off of everywhere, a really amazing feat. The car appears very futuristic or perhaps I'm just not up on cars. Either way, it a really fantastic shot!!
clbsmiley
HI, BUSY LADY!! :) Me too.. So we shall see some cool pics from you... :) And this is one.
helanker
OH WOW ! I love this shot so full of reflections and light and life and the yellow car against the darker exciting background. Perfect.
drifterlee
really cool shot!!!!!
goodoleboy
Hi STRANGER. Love the night contrasts, the gleaming paint and reflections, Lucinda.
jocko500
did a good job on the image of the car. have fun i see
sandra46
SUPERLATIVE WORK ! AMAZING POV!
npauling
A beautiful clear nightime capture and the yellow car makes a great focal point and reflection holder. The little christmas lights make a great interest point.
flavia49
superb lighting and capture
blondeblurr
The result is actually breathtaking - a wonderful composition ... it pays to learn more, with what material you have on hand and with a lot of patience and perseverence, no doubt, looking forward to the San Antonio river walk follow ups. BB
mgtcs
WOW...Very beautiful capture Lucinda, the lights are enchanting and gives a marvelous mood to the place, fantastic capture!
Madbat
Oh wow, Christmas lights without snow and blow just looks so....wrong! I like the shot, more tree ( and the car)would have looked really cool. A gang of Smurphs stealing the hubcaps also would have looked cool, but I digress!
mickeyrony
I like the Ford. They are prettier models. This reminds me of a multi-tenant parking blockavec genre. Beautiful shot ((5 + +)) J'aime bien cette Ford . Ils font de plus joli modèles .Cela me fait penser à un stationnement de blockavec plusieurs locataires genre . Belle prise de vue ((5++))
magnus073
It really is a marvelous capture Lucinda, and it was a pleasure as always to read your thoughts behind it. This us one cool looking car and it's easy to see why it caught your eye. As pointed out above all of the details surrounding it really make this a special scene.
vaggabondd
now that car is a 100 times shinnyer lol. I know that is not a word but wow is that car shinny. nice colors and capture
wysiwig
Very impressive work. It looks like an image for a Ford ad, wonderful clarity. You're not moonlighting are you? I have to agree with the others. Great POV and reflections.
fallen21
Fantastic capture.
jendellas
Wonderful capture, love the colours & bright lights!!
dakotabluemoon
Very cool looking car and looks like a fun one to drive nice capture.
mariogiannecchini
Wonderful night shot , Lucinda ! Fantastic capture !
dochtersions
A great yellow is on this car, specially with the reflections of those white lights. I hope you had a great time with the photography club, dear Lucinda.
Richardphotos
I have not been to San Antonio since 1993.the river walk probably has changed a lot.outstanding low light capture
anianiani
I like that tree decoration on back...shining car and a wonderful image.