explain your avatar

Since several people here have cats for avatars, I used one of mine taken of a wild bobcat here in southern Iowa. For several years rumors were floating around that bobcats existed in Iowa, but the Department of Natural Resources Pooh-Poohed the idea. Lately they have admitted that they do exist here because they were showing up on the road as road kills, some trappers were catching them in traps and some people had photos of them.

Wayne

P.S. As you can see I have changed mine now. This is a photo a friend of mine's granddaughter having a tea party out side.
 
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Really no significance to mine. It just happens to be one of my favorite Mardi-Gras masks acquired at a local flea market & the most colorful. They are part of a display of masks on a living room wall that also includes Mexican hand-painted clay masks.

(Sorry to say I didn't have the pleasure of acquiring the masks at THE Mardi-Gras. )
 
Just a photo taken by a friend in the Old Salem,NC visitors center. That's one of my Argus C44s around my neck. unseen in my pocket is an Argus A4. Tha occasion was the annual Argus Collectors Group get-together.
 
I wish that I could claim that my avatar is a photo of me, but I haven't perfected my style to that degree yet. Someday...
 
me at the age of 3 and behind me my sister aged 5 - that would be spring 66 before I turne 4 - from an old kontact print - probably shot by my father - not sure if it was a rangfinder - probably a rolleflex with a xenotar :)
 
This one is a little girl I saw at the farmers' market, and her mother said the girl didn't like having her picture taken. She managed to survive a few shots, and as they turned away, the girl looked back at me... Who knows, maybe this cutie will be a model some day!
 
I recently changed the avatar from me drinking Guiness draft to what is my first shot taken with my new Bessa L with cv 25/4. These cacti have a pleasant rose tint to their paddles. Green line in background is the line of Fremont poplars (cottonwoods) lining the San Pedro River 1/2 mile away. Camera balanced on left shoe.
 
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What do you mean "explain"? Is there something wrong with my avatar?

This is a good thread. Mine is a crop from a shot I took at the Louvre (Paris). I always thought of the shot as a quasi-mock-positivistic take on a classic sculpture. I called the shot "La Positive Attitude" with Pierre Raffarin in mind.
 
mine is my son, ian. he is my subject lately and a fast moving one, too. i'm also a cat person.....we have 4 felines. 1 was a stray my boss gave me, 2 came from a group of crafty nuns, and the last one is feral and showed up at the door...they all live indoors now.
 
From 1992 - 1994 I was working on a series of subway portraits in New York City and Budapest with a set of Canon QL-17s. This man in his makeshift cape appeared on a subway train just after I stepped in - it all happened very fast but's it's become one of my favorite pictures. Other pics from the same series are on my web site under "other work".

Cheers,

Sean
 
Believe it or not, mine was once a photograph. I needed an out of focus image of autumn leaves for a piece I was working on, so snapped the tree outside the window. I don't know why but I started messing with it in Photoshop to make it more graphic looking, which for me generally means starting with the cut-out filter. I cropped it to a square, et voila…
 
Mine is just me, Oly SP in hand, taken by my lovely wife.
I'm planning a new avitar pic this week thought ~ ; - )
 
I had just clipped the end off of a small cigar (Montecristo) and was going through the ritual of blowing the resultant dust and stuff out before lighting it. My wife took the shot with a Summicron 50mm in an M6 on a tripod (no flash).
 
Taken at a department store. I am actually the one standing, my aunt was trying out my Contax.

I've just started to fall in love with mirror photos.
 
Cool shot suzums. Mine is rather simple - it's my current favorite camera my 1972 Kiev 5. Strange big beast but lovable in it's own way. Took the shot with my previous fav, my Kiev 4a with the pre-war Sonnar 50/2 collapsable. My only regret about the 5 is that I can't use that Sonnar with it. If I could refit an original Contax/Kiev mount into the 5's body, I'd be in heaven... :D

William
 
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