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 (37)
misskitty
Beautiful, beautiful capture! Very well done!!
monjo71
I think it's an awesome shot. Love the background.
GBCalls
Very nice capture! Well done
TomDart
Yes, this is a fine photo. Your presentation is superb.
mgtcs
Excellent my friend, lovely photo, we call it here in Brazil "ZIG ZIG"
goodoleboy
Great POV employed to capture this neato dragonfly. Really doing a balancing act.
wysiwig
This is the first one I have seen that is head on. It shows the wings in really fine detail. Excellent capture.
danapommet
Perfect macro and love the green eyes. Dana
lizzibell
great capture...
MrsLubner
I think your composition is really intense. Stellar macro.
Xantipa
Excellent macro ... good job ... +++5
helanker
A wonderful composition. Yes, I like it alot.
Alz2008
Wonderful capture and POV, excellent well done..
Mondwin
Exquisite and fantastic Macro...bravissimo!V:DDD.Hugsxx
bmac62
Looks mighty good to me...particularly on that high flying perch:)
Alex_Antonov
Excellent!
virginiese
love the huge green eyes :-)
tennesseecowgirl
does that mean he is a redneck dragon fly??? lol Outstanding photo my friend.
MossSphere
Brilliant POV. You were lucky it stayed still, they usually zoom off when I get near to them!
moochagoo
Amazing postwork.
mariogiannecchini
Beautiful photos and good treatment of PP. ( Ti faro' poi vedere le libellule del Massaciuccoli )
emmecielle
Fantastic macro! :)
durleybeachbum
SUPERB!
vaggabondd
This is a awesome capture, I have caught a few dragon fly's and none of mine came out as nice as this one. very nice
sandra46
wonderful!
junge1
Great macro!
0rest4wicked
Outstanding macro!!! Nice detail and like the compisition of the Dfly and shape of its landing platform.
nigh23
been gone for awhile......... you have been busy this is great
Kilrah_23
Excellent macro. Well done.
jarmila
very nice and clean macro