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 (30)
alessimarco
Fabulous capture!!!
goodoleboy
Absolutely riveting! Utterly cool angles, clarity, and light/dark contrast in this capture, Lucinda.
mgtcs
Gorgeous perspective my friend, loved the textures, an excellent shot!
Madbat
Woohoo! Steel! And lots of it! (It's a guy thing)
jocko500
wonderful texture and lighting here
magnus073
This one really caught my eye right off the bat Lucinda as I too love bridges and always am glued to the tv when they have specials of working on one. Great choice for a pov on this one and great eye on your part to notice the rivets and lighting as they almost seem to work in harmony here.
Chipka
WOW! Thank you for the birthday wishes! And WOW! What a picture! I love the undersides of bridges--and virtually anything with rivets, girders, rust, and everything else you can see in this intriguing and quite complex image! I love the byplay between the shadow and the light, the patterns, the rivets...and absolutely everything else! This is quite sunning and right up my urban alley! It's funny, I don't need too much info on this bridge as I can simply transplant it somewhere like Nemaea or somewhere more terrestrial, like Agara maybe? How wonderful. I love this and yeah, it's making a trip into my favorites!
jayfar
Chip will have to 'steel' himself for this one, there will be plenty of insects up there.
durleybeachbum
What a marvellous image!! It makes what could be a rather depressing scene rather beautiful!! Clever woman.
helanker
Wonderul capture, Lucinds. Excellent dedication :-)
mariogiannecchini
Excellent work, Lucinda , very interesting !Splendid lighting , beautiful dedication !
flavia49
fantastic dedication and capture!
jendellas
I don't know how you do it, you make rivets interesting :o)
0rest4wicked
Great B=day wish, hope it was great!
jmb007
superbe photo!!
alanwilliams
The underside of something that only shows its face to the world, always arouses the curiosity i feel.
unstart
Interesting photo..very artistic!!
sandra46
wonderful 'urban' ambience for Chip, great bday present!
emmecielle
Excellent shot! :)
MagikUnicorn
Strong structure
wysiwig
Fantastic shot! I love the play of light on the girders.
wjames
Fantastic capture!!!
psyoshida
What a cool shot! The lighting is perfect. I'm very happy to see there is no too much rust! A very nice birthday gift. Can't wait for more NY picts.
auntietk
Wonderful capture! Fascinating underside.
drifterlee
Cool shot!!!!!!
Osper
Neat capture. Something for my details folder!
SIGMAWORLD
Sehr interesant.
dochtersions
Very special photo, Lucinda. And thank you for your lovely words, dear. You make me such glad ! <3
e-brink
A very nice composition of form, light and shade.
NitraLing
A pure talented eye for composition for sure! a fascinating capture!