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 (21)
giulband
Excellent prospective in this photo ! If you like photos I have some of mine Here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/107293413@N04/sets/
durleybeachbum
They are very tall!
mickeyrony
Very interesting place and a lot of power in those lines ((5++))
alanwilliams
a well structured landscape
clbsmiley
Wondrous image. Great dedi. Happy Birthday Harry!!
auntietk
I miss the firs. Such beautiful country!
drifterlee
Wonderful dedication and shot!
KatesFriend
You really got an impressive sense of scale in this shot. I feel like I'm standing right there looking at this massive tower. When I was little (well I'm still quite short but you get the idea) I imagined an army of giants marching or migrating along these roads they made for themselves moving from one part of the world to another depending upon the time of year. Now and again they intersected with our tiny roads where we would meet but largely ignore each other. And a good thing too because giants are not to be trifled with. Of coarse the hills in the background remind us that nature can and will dwarf any and all of man's most grand designs. For in the end, that's what these towers truly are and the hills will still be their when the giants (and perhaps we who made them) have all vanished from the land.
wysiwig
What a touching dedication. I can see you have been a worthy student. There is considerable geometric beauty in these towers.
magnus073
Wow Lucinda, this is one super birthday dedi for Harry. This epic view is sure to inspire all that see it, as well as serve as a reminder of what a thoughtful friend you are to so many.
Cyve
Great perspective and fantastic image !
Faemike55
Very cool capture and wonderful dedication to Harry
goodoleboy
OMG, another one of my favorites in my extensive list of subject matter, so masterfully depicted in this awesome photograph, Lucinda. a stellar bit of silhouetting against the clouds in this sharply focused shot, my friend, and I love those background hills. These towers always offer such wonderful perspective. Thank you so much for this thoughtful birthday dedication. I am humbled by it all. This makes another year of laughs (?) under my belt. And thank you for reminding me of my countless other Tower of Power shots, yet to be posted, that I have languishing in my forgotten files.
mgtcs
Fabulous capture my friend, amazing perspective as usual, excellent work!
helanker
A fantastic shot of these wires. In Denmark many of such are burried. Still no all but I think it is the intentions all over.
jendellas
What a super pic. x
flavia49
fantastic picture! Happy New Year 2014!
anahata.c
you picked a perfect image for Harry (and you chose a perfect Harry sample, too---it's geometric, kaleidoscopic and graced with light; beautiful choice). Here, your towers tower out of a big gorge of darkness, and into peaks and then into a high dramatic sky. I love that you let the front-most tower go up and up...if we view this from the bottom, it becomes a long journey to the top. And those little spiral-y things---I don't know what they're called, but they're the little segmented things under the right eave---our right---of each tower: I assume they're transformers of some kind...well those little things give a nice "cadence" to the long expanse of wires they're on. A kind of visual "ba-da-boom," a drum riff to end each wire properly. This is a broad sweeping capture of these metal gods---as we used to call them---with lots of sky in the shot to make them tower...Couldn't have picked a better shot for Harry, and your words are all true, as a tribute to one of our most devoted and thoughtful photographers. So---several days late---happy birthday harry, and many more in great health and inspiration! And thanks to you, Lucinda, for posting such a beautiful dedi for Harry. Another Happy New Year to you! Stay warm!
sandra46
WONDERFUL WORK
tennesseecowgirl
what an awesome shot for Harry nice work
danapommet
A lovely capture on these "Towers of Power" and a wonderful dedication for good ole Harry. I notice that these towers are right handed! :o)