Explain your avatar...

[krötenblender]

In this thread I just explained my nickname and the avatar, that caused it (posts 633 and 639).

Here is, what I wrote:

"Kröte" is a kind of frog (paddock or toad, to be precise). Blender means something totally different in german, it's not the machine, the blender, but in this case (different meanings are possible) means someone, who dazzles or blinds someone else (e.g. with a flashlight). The verb is "blenden" in german.

So the name means someone who dazzles a toad, and in my case comes from my avatar, which I did not upload here, yet, but was my first "good" photo ever and which I used at a german photo-forum.

It was actually just about 4cm in size, and the image was taken in macro-mode with a cheap compact-camera at night, when thousands of them were on their way to their pools. I used a flash and the toad was stunned afterwards, so I became the krötenblender...

Below you see the uncropped version.

Now: Show us your avatar and tell us the story behind it. What brings a person to choose that particular image, that represents him in this community of photographers?

 

[FrankS]

Picture of my father taken in a coffee shop with a Konica Hexar AF. Great lens on that camera. If the aperture, shutter speed, and manual focus controls on that camera were traditional dials instead of push buttons, it might have been the perfect camera for me.

 

[raid]

My avatar is of a Jordanian man who lives in Petra. The photo was taken shortly after Iraq was bombed in Desert Storm. Jordan was empty of tourists due to the war conditions in that area. I was the only tourist in Petra on that day. Salem was a local bedouin who used to live in one of the caves in Petra, but King Hussein asked the locals to vacate the caves for tourism purposes. The shot was taken inside a tent, as Salem and two or three other local bedouins invited me for some tea. I used a Canon F1N or T90 with a Canon 80-200 zoom and Fujichrome 100.

 

[S.H.]

Picture of my father taken in a coffee shop with a Konica Hexar AF. Great lens on that camera. If the aperture, shutter speed, and manual focus controls on that camera were traditional dials instead of push buttons, it might have been the perfect camera for me.

I like it very much!

My avatar : a 1930s ad poster for the Contax II by Walter Biedermann. I like this style of old ads, and I have a crush on those Contax and sonnars.

 

[kshapero]

My present avatar is a balmy day here in the sub tropics of rural South Florida where I live.

 

[bhop73]

It's me and my camera..

 

[photony texas]

Mine is a shot from Mars.
When the Mars Rovers started sending back photos from the surface a number of them had compression errors. I watched the live feeds for days and grabbed them when they would pop up.

 

[filmtwit]

My avatar hints at an aspect of my current profession.

 

[Sparrow]

A nude shot of the lady wife photoshopped to look like a landscape ...

 

[kshapero]

My avatar hints at an aspect of my current profession.

Photo too small to tell.

 

[kshapero]

A nude shot of the lady wife photoshopped to look like a landscape ...

A case where imagination out weighs intelligence. 😀 Just kidding.

 

[dotur]

100-00110P10 by dotur, on Flickr

 

[punkromance]

I believe it's Victoria Beckham.

 

[BobYIL]

"It was 1947... after the WWII... the year Leica was trying to catch up with the production figures prior to the pre-war era.. The series starting with 420xxx initiated... On the morning of the 15th of April the first IIIc came out of the production line waiting for the QC inspector Heribert to come down after repairing the leaking roof... Minutes later he arrived, checked the camera carefully, stamped and signed its papers then took a deep puff from his pipe by wondering "who would be the lucky owner of this one?"...

"Heil to you Heribert!" even if you happen to be in heaven now.. The camera is in the hands of one born on the same day... "


🙄Bob🙄

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Mine's a self-portrait, oil on masonite, painted when I was an art student 14 yrs ago.

 

[filmtwit]

Yep. Thus why it only hints . . .

Photo too small to tell.

 

[coelacanth]

Well, it's an accurate portrait of me with my M2.

 

[daveleo]

My son had a bobble-head puppet made of me, for my birthday.
That's it over there on the left.

 

[raid]

I believe it's Victoria Beckham.

The lens cap is on the lens!!!!! 😀

 

[Andy Kibber]

A jack-o-lantern past its prime. Shot with an Olympus Stylus Epic on Velvia I believe.