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 (38)
MagikUnicorn
One more time BEAUTIFUL :)
charpix
What a dazzling sight! Excellent capture of it, too.
vaggabondd
My friend I tried to follow what you said and I got so lost lol. I am not sure what you did but I do know it like it :) great post work
Sea_Dog
I like how it all turned out. This is a superb shot. Well done
watapki66
Very interesting effect, I like it, the colors are wonderful!
Chipka
What a fun shot! I immediately thought of cyberpunk mushrooms...and that gave me a good chuckle. I lost myself moving through the shapes and textures here, and especially meandering through the darkness and coming across a wonderful surprise of color or light over here or over there and even farther over thataway; and what I really like is the manner in which shape plays such a large role in this: at least in the way that it presents itself to me. There are the table heaters, then there are the implied trees: more an element of light than anything else as I see it. And then there's the surprise of those wonderful verticals in the upper right. I'm assuming that defines a window? Or some kind of minimalist-sleek architectural feature...and then there are the people in this shot: so peacefully at home in this environment that they simply blend in and unobtrusively emerge, wearing all of the wonderful colors you've captured in terms of those distinct and lively lights. This is really super work! So festive!
magnus073
I'd never become bored with your wonderful Christmas shots Lucinda, as you have a knack for choosing the most beautiful spots around. Really fell for this one the moment it came on the screen as it is like a celebration of light and color. Hard to imagine ever staying inside at night when there are treasures like this to visit. Love all the touchup work you did on this one as it made the presentation absolutely perfect. Please don't stop posting them.
jocko500
sound like a lot of fun you did here
blinkings
You have done a great job of it. I LOVE these heaters in winter!
mgtcs
Ohhh.....Another enchanting capture Lucinda, the place and lights give a marvelous Christmas feeling, amazing work!
Kindredsoul
i enjoy looking at your christmas lights they are all beautiful and I like this shot you took very well..
Madbat
I love all kinds of urban night photography, the patterns and topography the light creates is always visually interesting. And hey, Nothing wrong with pics of Christmas lights...it IS Christmas after all.
anianiani
Wow...Again and again... Superb ..
jayfar
Mushrooms in a fairyland.
wysiwig
It seems the aliens have landed and they are a colorful bunch. I like what you did with this. And that light tower is spectacular.
fallen21
Wodnerful capture!
durleybeachbum
I may venture to town to see what my council has come up with. I can assure you is will be NOTHING like this. A great series, Lucinda.
Feliciti
the lights made a magical mood i think and the heaters looks like shiny Fungi's :)
dakotabluemoon
Oh wow i like this one even more than the others looks so inviting.
dochtersions
So, after Christmas lights go out( will extinguish) on your gallery, dear friend? Oh, I will miss them. It's so nice to see all those beautiful colors in this dark time of the year. I love how the light strikes the umbrella lights above the tables. If purple mushrooms, so proudly erect, at attention. A great POV and mood you again created here, Lucinda. Have a blessed time further ♥ :)
thecytron
Stunning colors!
drifterlee
Gorgeous shot!!!!!!!!
flavia49
fabulous capture! I like that tech-fungi army!
Meisiekind
Love your title Lucinda and what a lovely image of the festive lights!
helanker
Yikes! An invasion of aliens. Sorry lol ! I saw the little table heaters like that, first time I looked at this. What a great and beautiful shot :-)
mariogiannecchini
Wonderful light and colors, dear Lucinda ! Fantastic capture !
jendellas
Lucinda, the light shots have been amazing & so beautiful as for bored, NEVER. Happy Christmas to you. xxxx
mickeyrony
The magic of the lights we confuses the eyes to give us a dream my beautiful .. I like it's magic ((5 + +)) La magie des lumières nous embrouille les yeux pour nous offrir un certain rêve ma Belle .. J'aime bien c'est magique ((5++))
Minda
like the colors and this Very beautiful capture lucinda..
goodoleboy
OMG, not only a Christmas elysium, but with the distinct flavor of a night scene on another planet, in a galaxy, far, far away, Lucinda. Your extra postwork efforts have paid off a thousand fold in this exquisite labor of love.