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My reflection on my car.
Taken on a very hot and sunny day. Not with an RF though...
 
Niagara River lake trout, with my lucky black Leica hat, that the river gods took from me in payment for the fish a few minutes later.
Haven't caught a fish since.....
 
This is "Salem"; a Petra Bedouin from Jordan who was my guide to the ruins of Petra (Jordan) just after the first Gulf War ended. No tourism was in sight anywhere in Petra as I was the only tourist there for two days. It was an emotional event for me since I am originally from Iraq and I took out my family from Baghdad to Amman for one month so they could "relax", if you can call it that way. Who thought at that time that there would be another Gulf War.
I was welcomed by the bedouins and they offered me hot tea inside a tent, and that is where I took this photo. I chose this avatar because of the events.


edit: I changed my avatar to an immature egret.
 
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New one today, 2 really nice bottles on a nice evening. Hillebrand Estates Showcase 2000 Merlot, (Niagara-on-the-Lake) and Angel's Gate 2001 Angels III (meritage), Beamsville, ON. Made with Minolta 7s on private-labeled Ferrania 200, drugstore scan.

The previous avatar, pimped Oly 35 SP will return some day!
 
raid amin said:
This is "Salem"; a Petra Bedouin from Jordan who was my guide to the ruins of Petra (Jordan) just after the first Gulf War ended. No tourism was in sight anywhere in Petra as I was the only tourist there for two days. It was an emotional event for me since I am originally from Iraq and I took out my family from Baghdad to Amman for one month so they could "relax", if you can call it that way. Who thought at that time that there would be another Gulf War.
I was welcomed by the bedouins and they offered me hot tea inside a tent, and that is where I took this photo. I chose this avatar because of the events.
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I think all to often politics blinds people to the fact that ordinary people are caught in the middle of events. Thankyou for a great story Raid.
 
Andy: No problem. I grew up in three countries, so I know that people are "similar" wherever you go to. There is the good, the bad, and the ugly.
 
Mine is a Dalek. For the unitiated, this is an evil robot that goes around the universe smashing things up in a great TV programme called Dr Who. For the initiated, I think Daleks looks like motorised Zorkis.
 
d30gaijin said:
That's me sitting on the toilet. What? Yeah but uh… let me explain before you start with the jokes. First understand I said sitting, not sh… oh never mind. Background: My primary hobby is long-range target rifle shooting (800, 900, & 1000 yards), know internationally as Palma shooting. OK, with that much revealed, my hobby lead me to take a job running the local rifle range (it's actually a second job for me, my primary job being the Quality Assurance Director for the State of Idaho Department of Environmental Quality). OK, so living on a rifle range, well there are not a lot of amenities. I live in a singlewide trailer... oops I mean manufactured home. Living in one means there aren't a lot of mirrors in the place, the biggest being in the bathroom or… uh, toilet. So if I want to do a self-portrait, well that's where I have to go. In this case, I just received a new Panasonic FZ2 digital camera (Leica lens) and wanted to try it out. Since the weather outside was frightful (gotta love that) why not try a few indoor shots then plug it into the computer to check result. What you see is the result, a self-portrait in the only place I can shoot a self-portrait.

Sorry, wish I had a better tale but that’s the misery of it.

Don
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You mean, you're shooting in your own privy Idaho? :D
 
FrankS said:
This is a picture of my father. He's in his 70's. I think he has an interesting look. One day I may look like my father.
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Good to know it is your father and not your self portrait. Next time no mercy.

Cheers,
Ruben
 
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O series with SBOOI: It's my zen camera.
As small, inconspicuous, and as basic as is possible in 35mm with a normal lens and full controls. The first and last of it's kind.

It's the one that gets a lot of use when commuting or traveling light.
 
This is one of the guys I shoot trap with. He was leaning forward to tell me not to take his picture! Oops, too late! He's a retired PA. State Trooper, and an interesting guy.
 
Porsche 550 spyder. It was "the little racecar that could" and put Porsche racing on the map with a third place overall finish in the Carrera Panamericana against some huge horsepower Ferraris. It was class win for Porsche and gave birth to the "Carrera" name used on several models.

It's a vintage race car, all mechanical, sound familiar??

My avatar is a photo I took of my little Brumm model of the car that James Dean killed himself in, nicknamed "little bastard." Taken with my Digital Rebel DSLR (the horror!)

If I ever get around to building it, I have a nice 1/43 scale resin model of the 1954 winner and then I will replace my Avatar with that. Here's the real restored version owned by the factory museum.

1954-porsche-550.jpg
 
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Just changed mine. This is me at restaurant Delfina here in San Francisco a few days ago.
 
Avatar... what avatar?

Avatar... what avatar?

I'm still trying to figure out how to take a pitcher with this daw-gone camera. :D
 
Mine is a photo by Czech photographer/painter/artist Jindrich Styrsky from the 1930s or 40s. It's from a book he self-published during the Nazi occupation of Prague. He wasn't very well liked by the occupiers as you might imagine because he was part of the surrealist/underground movement.

Some very interesting and bizarre work came out of that period which I really like and collect.

Jeff
 
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