Explain your avatar...

Mine is too easy, Thelonius Monk! I have loved Monk's music for over 50 years so when I changed my avatar it was the only one that would do. Can't even imagine ever changing it. No, I did not take the photo.
 
My new puppy... Lucky... I do holiday cards with his image. He's a 1 year old Jack Russell Terrier who filled the crater in my heart when his grand uncle Skippy died last year.

I know, it's corny but I'm still in puppy love 🙂

Tom
 
I was taking a picture, using my Mamiya 6 mounted on a tripod, of Punchbowl Falls, a waterfall near Mt. Hood in Oregon when someone captured me taking the picture.

A few moments after the shot was taken, I fell into the icy water after losing my footing on the slippery rocks.
 
Me with my Nikon F5 and 17-35mm/2.8 on a snowy day maybe 10 years ago @ my friend's cabin in Big Bear, CA. The cabin's gone (and so is the F5), and my friend has since gone the ex-pat route (SE Asia) though we still keep in touch.

Good times...
 
When many of us were buying our RF hats, I think I was one of the first to get mine. I didn't really want to put a likeness of myself as my avatar. So I made a likeness from rotating my head in time with the light on my flatbed scanner, making that my 'face' and showed it as my proof I had my hat, making it my avatar.

I still have the hat. Does anyone else?
 
I just love CATS 😉

Actually they were the first dogs I had as an adult, taken with a Hasselblad in a friend's studio.
The avatar is a heavily cropped version to fulfill the measly kb limit. 😡
They both passed in '09 6 months apart -- ages 14 and 16 -- it was tough year.
 
This is a "four hole burnout." Burning human waste, with a quart of diesel fuel mixed in.
I took this shot outside the gutted apartment complex I stayed in while we were staging the siege of Fallujah, Iraq in November, 2004.

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A statement on how I feel about life in general, I guess. Sometimes it could be better, sometimes it could be worse, and sometimes I could be stirring a drum of burning s**t with a piece of rebar...

Phil Forrest
 
t.s.k. said:
The avatar is a heavily cropped version to fulfill the measly kb limit. 😡
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That's why I suggest to post all you avatars as big real images here. Let's see them, explain them.

Very interesting stuff so far, but sadly very few big images. You chose them to be you, show us!
 
Close up of lens from Zeiss super ikonta.

U will mostly likely catch me shooting BW film using a folder of one type or another.. For now, tonal quality I can get from BW film cannot compare with anything i have done or seen in digital, especially in mf or lf...

Gary
 
FrankS said:
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.
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Frank that is nice one of your dad.
Gary
 
My avatar is a reflection of myself in a storefront window taken back in 1973 with a Leica M2 and 35/f2 Summicron, inspired by the cover of the Graham Nash solo album "Songs for Beginners".
 
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