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)
vaggabondd
very nice job my friend :)
JaneEden
Wow I love the effects you used on this, and how it has changed from the original Mark photo, which was excellent too. hugs Jane xx
elfin14doaks
Very neat outcome it's so much fun to play with photos. This is really different from it's original. Nice work.
MagikUnicorn
love this great F/X
Lisajobb
The colours and aliveness (is that a word) of this image is really stunning.
wysiwig
Wow! This looks like some apocalyptic vision from Tim Burton. The flames look like they are alive. I never realized you could get so much variety from earth tones. This is really cool! Thanks Lucinda.
auntietk
I love what you've done with Mark's image ... wonderful work!
mgtcs
This is a wonderful work my friend, excellent Joice of colors, texture and sense of depth! Really a great piece of art!
psyoshida
You have outdone yourself this time! Spectacular scene. That fire is really alive and moving across the landscape. I love the trees you drew too. I noticed the fainter colored smoke on the landscape it add depth and detail. Superb work of art!
goodoleboy
Well, thank you and Mark for this dedication, Lucinda. Excellent portrayal of a fire line against the striated background. We never fail to have a year when we get all kinds of monstrous brushfires, and occasionally forest fires, here in Southern California. The firefighters have a devil of a time combating the flames because of the hot high winds and mountainous terrain.
magnus073
Lucinda first of all I'm so sorry you must battle this allergy each year and I know you have a lot on your mind and that is the last thing you need to deal with. That is what makes this image even more amazing knowing the focus you had to have in order to create this wonderful vision. It is so bright, vibrant and almost dances on the screen.
npauling
This fire looks amazingly real with the colouring. A super work.
mariogiannecchini
Complimenti Lucinda ! Ottimo effetto e bei colori in questa elaborazione molto realistica ! Buona giornata Congratulations Lucinda! Great effect and beautiful colors in this drawing very realistic! Good day
durleybeachbum
BRILLIANT, Lucinda! What a superb result! I love the shimmering effect of the subtle line between each of the sky/forest bands, and the smoke above the trees!
jarmila
lovely colours and creation
helanker
This is such a beautiful painting with warm and lovely colors :-D
jendellas
Looks fabulous, I love what can be done to pics.
myrabe
Exotic, powerful, creative. A 5+
alanwilliams
Excellent, love the receding bands of colour, and the fiery foreground blazes brilliantly. A true work of art.
misskitty
Beautifully done! Great work! Glad you're feeling better! :)
drifterlee
really beautiful!!!!!!
sandra46
splendid, fascinating work !!!
flavia49
fantastic work!!!
anahata.c
oh Lucinda, what you did with this! It's beautiful! You added trees to it (was that to dedicate it to a victim of the forest fires?), and made it a conflagration, although the fire doesn't seem so destructive as it does "light," like it's an illuminated force coming out of the trees. It has great light! And you have the ghost flames above, and then your layered sky. It's just beautiful Lucinda. And if it's a dedication to victims of fire, you've actually given an image of transcendence, because you showed fire as something beautiful, however destructive. (I just had a fire in a high rise, I know how terrible it can be.) And to have taken this from Mark's wild skyline is just wonderful. Fine seeing and very creative work. It's beautiful.
virginiese
Excellent gradient of colors ! I really like the effect and postwork ! Great work
Alfaomega
Perfect layering! Great illusionary effect.
ShadowsNTime
Hi Lucinda! Stopping by to catch up a bit but also to thank you for letting Harry know about the image. I'm so pleased you both liked it and thanks for making it a fav! Now to this image, BEAUTIFUL!!! Extremely creative work, I looked at his image, I would never have seen what you saw in that and created here, Bravo!!! I love the comment that Mark (anahata.c) gave you and must agree. Its a very profound work. I have missed many of your works so I am going to browse thru and while I haven't time to comment on all I will fav some, starting with this!
Radar_rad-dude
Brilliant and colorful energizing image! Superb and wonderful masterpiece!
ragouc
Very good colour scheme
kasalin
Excellent and beautiful work, well done !!! "Five stars" :) Hugs Karin:)