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Mine is just I like subs ;)
This is actual photo of me taken into the conning-tower of the Russian "641 project" submarine (NATO class "Foxtrot"). The uniform I wear with the insignia of Captain (looks the same as in the US Navy) belongs to my father, who was the Soviet Naval officer (he's retired now). :)
 
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New avatar - one from the series of yawns I shot. Sobel edge detection and some tweaking. Cats go through some pretty wild looking faces in a yawn that - taken out of context, can look looney / ferocious / cranky, etc.. The edge detection just kinda makes it look like something from Where the Wild Things Are. I titled this one The Monster Under the Bed, after it came up in the Ghosts of Ghettysburg thread. Halloween is right around the corner.
 
Mine is a monkey playing with himself on top of the tree at African Lion Safari, Guelph, Ontario Canada. Took my kids there this summer, but they were more interested in running around in the van than animals. We parked and watched this guy for quite a while. Taken with D70 an 70-200 VR.
 
This was the ugliest Zorki 6 in my collection but it worked very well after a lever wind CLA so I painted it using rustoleum grey hammerite and wrapped it in AKI-asahi leather.
 
I forgot about this thread, and forgot I changed my avatar. A friend shoots stock and he wanted some motorcycle shots so I roared around the neighborhood for him one evening.
 
Any suggestions for uploading an avatar? For some reason mine won't upload even though I am using the proper specs.
 
kbg32 said:
Any suggestions for uploading an avatar? For some reason mine won't upload even though I am using the proper specs.
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try changing the size, just a tiny bit, even if it is already sized to fit.

joe
 
back alley said:
try changing the size, just a tiny bit, even if it is already sized to fit.

joe
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Thanks Joe. I have tried everything - changing the size a bit, and it keeps telling me it's too big. The image is always 125 pixels, 19kb or less, and it just won't upload.

I give up...... :bang:
 
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Mine is a shot I took with my Mamiya of one of my models. It was totally candid, sudden, and perfect. We had finished a shoot, and I had packed my camera gear in the car (almost) when I turned around to see her standing there like that. It as cold and gray, about to rain, and she didn't feel great, and we were both starving.

I had a camera in my hand, saw her and just snapped it. She has the best hair on the planet. Cherokee and Irish blood. VERY fun to work with. This is my prize shot.

the full size version is found here : http://www.shutterflower.com/facepage.htm
 
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I changed my avatar in the past week or so. My current avatar is of myself, shooting with my Leica M6, with a Canon 50mm f/1.2; it was a test shot (and yes, I use my left eye).
 
Mine is a couple of old rusted pickup taken with a now-sold Yashica GSN. I guess it reflects how I feel somedays getting up, beat up and rusted!
 
As I watched two birds fly towards me, I wondered, is that a big bird far away, or a small bird close up? Which one will win? Is Escher playing with my mind? I only had a nano-second to answer all these questions. Consequently I garbled the whole damn thing!
 
Earlier this year I was letting my children play with some of my old cameras, which are really quite childproof. My five-year-old is fascinated by the Nikon S2. The magnification of the viewfinder is 1:1 so she kept her other eye open, which is also the way I shoot. This was the first time she had ever handled any of my film cameras, and I was really quite surprised at how the controls naturally fit into her hands.
 
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Mine is a shot I took with my Mamiya of one of my models. It was totally candid, sudden, and perfect. We had finished a shoot, and I had packed my camera gear in the car (almost) when I turned around to see her standing there like that. It as cold and gray, about to rain, and she didn't feel great, and we were both starving.

I had a camera in my hand, saw her and just snapped it. She has the best hair on the planet. Cherokee and Irish blood. VERY fun to work with. This is my prize shot.

the full size version is found here : http://www.shutterflower.com/facepage.htm
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My best shot of my son was like that. He was about 18 months old, or so, and had focused in on what he was eating. I just slipped the camera up, slipped the zoom to max (sorry, no RF content in this one), and composed on the fly. You can see it
here

Thanks for explaining and sharing that shot. Why do I have this feeling it was _the_ keeper of the shoot?

William
 
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