explain your avatar

uhh mine is me wearing an exercise elastic (used to rehab my knee) and some bad facial hair...i like to surprise my gf by dressing up and keeping a straight face when she is in the bathroon brushing her teeth. hilarity often ensues.
 
wow! didn't know this thread was still alive... I think I posted on this a good few months ago.

well, have a new avatar now. silhouette of two guards and some tourist under the tiananmen square!
 
Mine is a shot of Battersea Power Station in London. One of the most beautiful buildings in the world, IMHO. Pink Floyd fans, of course, will recognize it.

Taken with my Contax G2 and 28/2,8 Biogon lens.
 
My daughter, Freya's, sixth birthday party. Hand-held at a slow speed (can't remember which) and not pin sharp but I love the atmosphere.

Bruce
 
Mine is a picture I drew for my daughter. It is a result of four year old humor.

"Daddy, draw me a bird with a pointy hat that's farting!"

Every time she looked at it for the next couple of hours she was helpless with laughter. That little farting bird has a special place in my heart.
 
thpook, I love that little bird and that little anecdote reminds me of about 7 or 8 years ago. I was working in out of school hours care and one of the other workers there had previously worked for the clothing company Mambo, so naturally he had a lot of their clothes, especially t-shirts. One of their most famous (or infamous) designs was the 'farting dog' design. The picture was a siple drawing of a dog with a musical not coming out of it's butt. The kids (aged from 6 to 12) loved that shirt.

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2004/06/16/mambo_dog_200.jpg

Heath
 
Somebody revived the thread just when I changed my Avatar. The new one is me doing triage at a mission hospital in Malawi. It is meant as blatant marketing for "my"foundation, called "kaakchirugen voor Malawi"(Oral surgeons for Malawi) www.kaakchirurgen-voor-malawi.nl (sorry, Dutch website,no English version yet)
 
After finally learning how to post an Avatar, (thanks to Frank & Joe) I decided to show off my new toy, a Bessa R with the CV 35/2.8, the black J8 and the black wrist strap the I got from Gordon Coale.

I have had great fun using this outfit and someday I'll learn how to post some pictures.

Regards to all,

Bill K.
 
This photo was taken the week after 9/11. Mi novia and I were a block away from the Miami Freedom Tower commenting on its resemblance to La Giralda in Sevilla, Spain. We were standing there talking and mi novia took a snapshot of me removing my Olympus 2020 from a Zing case. Did the hombre in the background think my Zing case was a holster or was he checking out mi novia? He definitely appeared startled in the photograph.

R.J.
 
I had almost forgotten about this thread too. :)

I tend to change mine semi-regularly, so this may not be what you're seeing now. The one as of the posting date is probably the strangest accidental self-portrait I've ever done. It's an extreme blow-up of my reflection in Chicago's Cloud Gate, the sculpture that is supposedly forbidden to photograph. The original photo is here:

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/data/4964/medium/dmr021.jpg

I was just experimenting with the new Konica-Minolta scanner, and I scanned this at max. res., 16bit, multisample, producing an 80+ meg .tiff file. The avatar is a crop which does show the detail of the film grain clearly. I actually had to size it down a bit as to not exceed the avatar dimensions. :)
 
Well, decided to change mine, the old one was getting boring...
The new one shows me & my niece Stefanie Rosa, taken by my girlfirend Nicole, with my Yashicamat (bigger version is in my gallery).

Roman
 
It's a watercolor painting loosely based on a photo taken in Doughton Park on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina.
 
My avatar is a caricature of Horace Rumpole.

"Rumpole of the Bailey" is the creation of John Mortimer.

I sometimes feel we share some attributes.
 
I tend to change a lot. I have a program that allows meto enter dimensions for an avatar and it makes the changes. The current one is probably one of the sharpest photos I have ever taken. It is the Bessa R and 50mm Summitar I got from Ray_G. I took it witn my Canon f-1 and a 50mm f1.2 L
 
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