explain your avatar

[Muggins]

My chirpy lady with a tripod is the endpaper from a c1914 Ensign Handbook - complete with little inserts stating that there might be difficulties in supply due to the ongoing difficulties, and dated March 1915.

Nowadays you'd call it a catalogue, and it would probably be online rather than a vest pocket-sized hard bound book.

Adrian

 

[Yammerman]

My late father did mine as logo for me a few years back and it seemed appropriate.

 

[Mael]

Guess what ? I like pin-ups !

 

[gdi]

Its interesting to go back and read the explanations on the first page (since the avatars have changed!)

 

[sepiareverb]

Whew, just saw this thread while looking for something else.

My current one is me. In my work clothes.

 

[JoeV]

A pinhole camera paper negative image of a silver gelatin 11"x14" self-portrait print hanging from backyard clothesline; the self-portrait was printed from a 4x5 film negative exposed in a Speed Graphic. Kind of format -blending.

~Joe

 

[ray*j*gun]

My son used to play tournament chess as a child and we used to watch the movie searching for Bobby Fisher like weekly.

 

[lam]

Gangnam Style:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0

 

[FrankS]

It's kind of fun to go through earlier posts in this thread when avatar pictures changed but the descriptions are still original.

 

[Jamie Pillers]

The best lens

The best lens

Its the best lens in my collection.

 

[back alley]

my grandfather...

 

[rhl-oregon]

my grandfather...

I had always wondered ever since I joined RFF. What a dapper gentleman. Good to keep him near you this way. Now that she's gone, I carry my mother smiling (at age 17) in one of her old lockets.

 

[clear2000]

I like bikes !

 

[Richard G]

The old and the new. My 1958 M2 given to me in 1977 and the ZM C Sonnar acquired in 2009, an old lens design in a new iteration and a lens which inspired one of the rejuvenations of my photography

 

[paulfish4570]

if i told y'all, i'd have to kill all y'all ...

 

[Overkill-F1]

I climbed poles for telephone installations and repairs for 38 1/2 years.
Retired last year.
...Terry

 

[Brian Legge]

I'm very lazy.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I climbed poles for telephone installations and repairs for 38 1/2 years.
Retired last year.
...Terry

My father did the same thing. He was a lineman and then a fiber-optics technician and finally a regional construction manager for GTE, which became Verizon right before he retired. He still has his set of climbing hooks that strapped to his work boots to climb poles.

In the southern Indiana area that he managed in his last years with the company, there was an old lineman who was 75 years old, who worked for the company for 55 yrs! He was in perfect health, and refused to retire. My dad said the old man was earning 125,000 a year because the law required the company to pay him his pension alongside his regular pay because of his age and long service...and his regular pay was really high because he had been on the job so long, getting yearly raises.

 

[grapejohnson]

I work at Rite Aid, as did my friend, at a separate location. He took a few test strips from the minilab and taped them together, then shot the roll with a really crappy minolta P&S while we got hammered.

 

[Ezzie]

My left eye. I wanted it to be me, and yet abstract.