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 (31)
Faemike55
very cool capture, Lucinda. it is amazing how these form and are so hard thanks for the link
goodoleboy
Clarity, detail and texture unsurpassed in this shot of the awesome Basalt Columns, with the gentleman at the bottom for size relation. It almost looks artificial as far repetition goes.
KatesFriend
That's magnificent Lucinda. Nature always seems to dwarf any of mankind's engineering and architectural achievements. Both in grandeur and longevity. I so very rarely use the word, but, awesome. I'm glad you provided the link, I believe my class was told the Benandonner ledgend way back in early grade school - when the Earth was flat. We all thought it was very funny that Benandonner would be so fooled by MacCool's ruse.
npauling
A super capture of this amazing place. The detail in the rocks is so uniform it almost looks man made.
wysiwig
An outstanding capture. It looks like a stone forest. Excellent detail.
magnus073
What a wonderful capture Lucinda, and oddly enough a friend of mine was sharing some photos with me of her trip to Ireland. This is such a marvelous pov you chose, and those columns do take your breath away. Thanks so much for taking the time to provide the link, I'll go read more on them now.
whaleman
Interesting shot!
ia-du-lin
impressive basalt wall, great capture
durleybeachbum
I have never before seen a photo from this angle. So interesting!
jayfar
Like Andrea I have never seen these columns from this angle. Excellent picture Lucinda.
blinkings
What an amazing place. I've never been.
GARAGELAND
I visited this place, its amazing!!!!!
alanwilliams
seemingly always pictured from above, its good to see the angle you have used here, further proof of your photographers eye
mickeyrony
Again a nice place to visit . These rocks have a lot of work in there Hiiii Good picture again ((5++))
clbsmiley
Very Cool Lucinda! Great you have shared this angle of the causeway. Must have been fantastic to see it in person. :)
anianiani
Very valuable sharing..Excellent capture too..Thanks.
Jean_C
Fantastic geological structure, superb and intersting capture!
bobrgallegos
Wonderful capture!
helanker
This looks so fantastic, Lucinda. One could think they were build of People :) An absolutely amazing sight and a wonderful shot.
Kindredsoul
that is interesting formation, nice.
drifterlee
THat really is a cool rock formation!
emmecielle
Very interesting place! Wonderful capture! :)
flavia49
fabulous place and capture
sandra46
wonderful image! we were there too many years ago
demonicusrex
been there got that photo SNAP!
blondeblurr
What a coincidence, I had just recently mailed you similar formations from the New Hebrides - 'Pillar Island', Fingal's Cave - I concur fascinating stuff ... thanks for sharing this with us Lucinda, BB
jendellas
Very impressive, superb capture. xx
auntietk
I've seen it on tv, but have never been there. It looks like a fabulous place to visit!
Chipka
Ooh, imagine all of the interesting stories that basalt could tell...it's quite dramatic! One doesn't always think of geology as being rich in drama, and yet...you've got basalt...the drama queens of the rock world and I love this image. Those columns are amazingly intricate and wonderfully details. I love your use of light and shadow in this and the sense of scale is amazing! This is brilliant!
Cyve
Fantastic shot !