explain your avatar

these are the profiles of my wife and my little daughter ... nothing special to tell about that.

New avatar: a painting by Matisse ... love the colours ... it reprensents a circus (cirque) ... life's a circus! La vie est un cirque, et quel cirque!
 
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Mine is the Palace of Westminster, pictured from the South Bank, featuring St. Stephens tower, wrongly referred to as "Big Ben" most of the time. Big Ben is actually the bell inside the clock of St. Stephens tower. Shot on a Nikon FG with Kodak HIE. Not entirely happy with it, couldn't quite balance Westminster Bridge on the right with the main palace building on the left. Either the bridge took prominance or the building did, both detracting from the tower. One day I'll take a picture I'm entirely happy with...
 
I keep switching mine, but currently its my shadow, my wife in the background, walking away from me...not quite sure what that means, but perhaps I'd better put the brakes on buying gear...
 
It's about time to change mine. The current one is a job I did for Robin Hood Foods at least ten years ago. It's the corporate logo made up with the company's products. The art director deserves far more credit than I-she built the thing. I just put light on it and pushed the button. The original was 4X5 colour transparency (or was it 5X7?).
 
Too late to pitch in? Mine was from a happy accident, when I had set the self timer without knowing, snapped as I was scowling, trying to figure out why the shutter had not fired.
 
Just some head I found on a google image search of my name. just kidding, it's me, tho I do have said head as my login picture at work.

This is actually my first digital capture, with a borrowed camera.
 
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Explain your avatar

Explain your avatar

Frankly, I never heard of the term avatar until I found the RFF and I've been changing mine from time to time...Right now, it's me 60 years ago as a kid working for The Providence Journal...
 
Just changed from my Al Frankin painting to a blind girl painting (thus no eyes). I thought this was more appropriate for a photography site where we do a lot of looking. The painting is a spin off of a painting that American painter Julian Schnable spun off of another painting. The original is quite small (maybe 18x24 inches), Schnable's are huge 10x15 feetish). Mine is about twice the size of the original, and I present the girl with her head turned - both the other painting she is faced toward the viewer.
 
Mine is the universal symbol for T'ai Chi Ch'uan, a Chinese martial art and self-defense system I've practiced for 15 years and taught for 8 years.

Regards!
Don
 
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