explain your avatar

[venchka]

Yup. That's me in my best Wilson pose aboard my little sailboat.

 

[acall]

Mine is a US Department of Transportation radioactive materials label. My day job is managing chemical and radioactive waste for the government. Anyone want a free sample?

Cheers,
Alan

 

[markinlondon]

Me and my L'Arivee Cherub parlour guitar.

Mark

 

[tkluck]

An old photo of me Lois had laying around. I forget who the kid in the bow tie is.

 

[thanatos]

Mine's a bunch of cancer cells that I saw down a microscope and photographed; I thought that together they looked like Munch's "The Scream". Just caught my eye.

 

[alegalle]

The obligatory "self in a mirror" shot, modified holga style

Andy

 

[jrong]

Mine is self-explanatory. I'm pretty crabby most of the time.

 

[fgianni]

Myself and my new (at the time) toy, my beloved RD-1.

 

[ErnestoJL]

I ve changed my avatar since my last post in this thread.
The actual one is of my dog Juancho (a cross breed between a German Shepherd and a Dobermann- at least that s what I ve been told when I picked him in an Animal Protection Association).
I ve changed the old avatar because this picture is the one I like most of all those I have of him at home. Besides I m using another nick in other places: Doggish man, so this new avatar seems apropriate.

Ernesto

 

[Nando]

Mine is a Ford GT40 cartoon in Gulf-Oil colours. It's the working class hero that destroyed the aristocracy of European racing. Automobiles are my passion and I like FoMoCo cars in particular. I am currently a moderator on the FordEurope.net forums and I am writing the motorsports column for 'The Universal Car' - a newsletter published by the International Ford History Project.

Ricardo:
La Carrera Panamericana was very important for Ford too. Lincoln Capris finished first in their class in the 1954 race where the 550 made its mark by nipping the heals of the bigger Ferraris. The Lincolns won its class the year before too. This was Ford's first major factory-supported effort in motorsports since the embarrassing result at Indy in 1935.

I found many parallels between car enthusiasts and photography enthusiasts. One thing that effects me in particular and attracts me to rangefinders is the fascination of mechanical things. To tell you the truth, I'm just as fascinated with the equipment as I am with taking good photos.

 

[sf]

Mine, for now, is a shot of a really old press photographer I saw at an event in Seattle. He just looked like he'd been around the photography ride a long time.

 

[Fedzilla_Bob]

I don't have on my usual variation of a Godzilla image.

For now it's me and the youngest of my family of 3 cats and the most demanding.

 

[AOI Photo]

Mine is a shot from my first ever film roll from a rangefinder. (kiev 4a) using a borrowed 85mm lens. Picture is of my good friend HEather in a bar one evening.

 

[Rich Silfver]

Contax IIIa

 

[PeterL]

A slide my dad took with his old and beloved Pentax that died a few years ago. I think I was about 12 at that time, I don't remember this picture being taken.

(a copy attached in case I change my avatar)

 

[MelanieC]

Mine is me fondling a Leica IIIf.

It works better as an avatar because when it's that small the dumb expression on my face isn't quite as obvious.

 

[ywenz]

'Sheed must bleeedd...

 

[sf]

Mine is an old picture of me as a baby. Eating something that looks like chocolate in a room in a house in a neighborhood that hasn't changed in 24 years.

 

[JimG]

It's a family thing. Both my father and an uncle used Leicas and so do I. No offense is meant to anyone so please don't take any. JimG

 

[bsdunek]

Mine is my late wife's Corgi, Reilly. He is my best little buddy, and was important to recovering from my loss.
I have recently re-married, and Reilly now has a sister Black Lab, Midnight. Perhaps I should revise the photo to the two of them togather.