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)
mickeyrony
I am sure he will like this present my Beautiful Rust look nice sometime ((5++))
Faemike55
This is absolutely beautiful and unique! I love how it flows all around and up and down and rusty to boot! Thank you for this wonderful gift, Lucinda! Zoom is definitely a must for this photo. you could easily get lost trying to figure this one out
jocko500
wow this is cool. I have to google this artist
Mark-David-Rogers
Great capture of a fascinatingly interesting piece.
mgtcs
Gorgeous sculpture and dedication Lucinda, wonderful lighting, excellent capture!
bebopdlx
What a fantastic sculpture.
wysiwig
Talk about a bad hair day! This is very cool. I knew Mike would love it. Looks like a big eyeball in the middle.
whaleman
Great shot and it gives me many thoughts, like an alien torpedo!
durleybeachbum
A most impressive work of art,and a terrific pic.
SunriseGirl
WOW! What an impressive sculpture. I also need to google this artist.
jayfar
A super piece of art and a nice shot and dedi Lucinda.
jendellas
Very unusual, lovely dedi. X
Mondwin
Fabulous dedication my dear!!!!Bravissima!:DDD.Hugsxx Whylma
drifterlee
Cool sculpture and dedication!
magnus073
Wow Lucinda, this is a wonderful birthday dedication for Mike. I can only begin to imagine the time involved in creating this sculpture, and would like to visit Texas to see more of these by this artist. I enjoyed reading your thoughts and the way you associated this rustic art with Mike, and his daily travels.
dragonmuse
Interesting find.
clbsmiley
Fireball!!
flavia49
fabulous photo
Rob2753
What a fabulous structure !! great shot !
emmecielle
Fantastic sculpture and dedi! :)
GrandmaT
Neat sculpture and a great photo.
Cyve
Fantastic sculture... Very well captured!!!
glix70
Wow!!! Beautiful steel sculpture, lovely detasils and light too!!! Great shot!!! :0)
sandra46
WONDERFUL WORK
auntietk
Ascension, indeed! This is magnificent! I love the color pop. You've brought out all the detail of the sculpture and enhanced the drama. Wonderful image!
goodoleboy
I'm trying to draw an analogy with this structure, and the closest I can come to is a bad hair day for some redhead, or possibly a deep ocean creature plunging after its prey. That said, Happy Birthday, Mike, wherever you are.
dochtersions
An extremely beautiful statue, which looks like a flower, which itself joyously opens to the sun, the rays of the world. It represented a magnificent symbol, the petals are like a dance of joy for our friend Mike. Happy Birthday, Mike! And Bravo, Lucinda!
blondeblurr
This sculpture is a winner in my books and I am so glad, that you are sharing it with all of us Lucinda, ... sorry Mike ;) It's so organic and visually vibrant and a specially little mention goes to the curly pigtail ... ;)) a fine dedi for Mike, BB
KatesFriend
Mike is right, a zoom is definitely in order for this one. This reminds me of a piece outside the CERN labs (I believe it's there) called 'Broken Symmetry' - a metaphor for the origins the universe. This makes me think of the complex interplay of fundamental forces which developed shortly after the symmetry was broken. There is a struggle for mathematical perfection and order but everywhere this order is always breaking down into chaos. And then, just as paradoxically, returning to order again.
e-brink
Lovely shot of this. Perfect light.