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taffer

01-07-2005, 15:43

This is the street cat I accidentally found one afternoon while walking through a park testing a Ricoh 35 ZF. The pic is a severe crop but at that size it doesn't matter...

Curious thing is I pretty much ignored cats before joining this forum, now I always try to at least exchange a bit words with them...

Seems two of our members thought about the same question at the same time :D

CleverName

01-07-2005, 16:43

This is a photo of me taken way back in the late '60's. I'm considerably taller now and have added about 150lbs.
This is the only evidence my Mother has to back up her story that people said I looked like the baby Jesus when I was a child. My mom loves telling that story and my wife loves hearing it. Personally I don't see the resemblance.

EDIT:
I've changed my avatar. If you are interested, visit my site to see a big version of the old avatar.

r-brian

01-07-2005, 18:12

It's a ballon from the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, supposedly the most photographed event in the world. In the last couple of years they've limited the number of balloons to only 800. Mass ascensions are something to behold. You are right in the middle of them when they go off. They come down all over town.

Picture taken with a HiMatic 7s.

Brian

Krasnaya_Zvezda

01-07-2005, 19:02

Krasnaya Zvezda is Russian for "red star". I got the image from the comic book "The Red Star".

nwcanonman

01-07-2005, 19:09

Mine is of my father, age 2, taken in 1921.
He was pretty "grumpy" as an adult, so this joyful child is a better memory. This is the only photo in which he's smiling ~ ; - )

peter_n

01-07-2005, 19:13

Krasnaya Zvezda is Russian for "red star". I got the image from the comic book "The Red Star".

There is a famous football team in Belgrade called "Crvena Zvezda" - Red Star. Is there a sports connection with your online name besides the comic book?

Natalia

01-07-2005, 19:20

Originally posted by nwcanonman
Mine is of my father, age 2, taken in 1921.
He was pretty "grumpy" as an adult, so this joyful child is a better memory. This is the only photo in which he's smiling ~ ; - )

I like old-time photos.....there's something special about them.

impact07

01-07-2005, 19:43

Mine is just me in the mirror.

yashicalynx

01-07-2005, 19:58

Me,in my favorite color.

don sorsa

01-07-2005, 20:38

Handheld self-portrait one day when I was bundled up for walking and shooting last winter in Chicago. Guess I shoulda turned the camera in the other direction.

doubs43

01-07-2005, 20:53

My avatar is a picture of a locomotive my father took about 1950 or so. I grew up mere feet from the main line (double track then) of the B&O Rail Road and well remember the sounds of the steam engines as they passed our place less than 30 feet away. Many of the local men worked their whole lives for the B&O.

This picture was taken about half way between the towns of Doubs and Adamstown, Maryland. I scanned it from a photograph.

Walker

Honu-Hugger

01-07-2005, 20:57

The original of this is in my gallery, it's a shot my Dad took of my brother, sister, and cousins at our hunting camp in Northern Michigan. I cropped the section with my cousin Jimmy and I for the avatar. A while back Pherdinand correctly guessed that I am the one with the bottle -- little has changed over the years, although I'm a little taller;)

D2

Krasnaya_Zvezda

01-07-2005, 20:58

Originally posted by peter_n
Krasnaya Zvezda is Russian for "red star". I got the image from the comic book "The Red Star".

There is a famous football team in Belgrade called "Crvena Zvezda" - Red Star. Is there a sports connection with your online name besides the comic book?

Nyet. I only used the comic for the picture, nothing more. I do watch alot of football though, and my team wears red--- but it's Arsenal of the EPL. Go Gunners!

Doug

01-07-2005, 21:34

Cinnamon, my special buddy, youngest of our five feline housemates.

impact07

01-07-2005, 22:13

Originally posted by Krasnaya_Zvezda
I do watch alot of football though, and my team wears red--- but it's Arsenal of the EPL. Go Gunners!

Yeah! Go Gunners!!

thmk

01-07-2005, 23:37

Mine is a crop of a Swisscom radio tower looking a bit like the peace sign. Taken during a bike ride with my Lomo LC-A.

Krasnaya_Zvezda

01-08-2005, 05:48

Originally posted by thmk
Mine is a crop of a Swisscom radio tower looking a bit like the peace sign. Taken during a bike ride with my Lomo LC-A.

(Gasps!) There is a LOMO contingent here? And it's OK to admit it? I don't have an LC-A, but I have a Smena 8M and a Lubitel. And truth be told, LOMO was my entry port into camera collecting and therefore the terminal addiction of FSU stuff. Wow, I guess it's safe for me to admit I own TWO Holgas, one with the Polaroid back? (Woops--- I just admitted I use Polaroid...) Should start a new thread, What are your favorite junk cameras? Might even find some Diana users here. I think I'll do it.

thmk

01-08-2005, 06:16

Ooops, did I say too much? ;)
But a fact is that my friends and colleagues around me sometimes (or often) do not understand what I am photographing but looking at my Lomo LC-A pictures they say "Hey, I like it!". For me that proves the thesis that an expensive cam does not automatically take good pictures. So the Lomo cannot be that bad to be negated.

24x30

01-08-2005, 06:59

One of my sons (twins) last summer when he looked out of a steamtrain during the ride. I took this, because the main part of my pictures are of them.

/rudi

Pherdinand

01-08-2005, 07:57

Mine is just a pissing old guy at the artifficial pissing corner in a street, in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. I took the picture for somebody back home who did not believe that in our western civilized world that's how public toilets for men look like.

The pic is taken on fuji neopan 1600 with a GSN and severely cropped - negative magnified with a microscope and captured with a digicam.

peter_n

01-08-2005, 09:11

Originally posted by Krasnaya_Zvezda
I do watch alot of football though, and my team wears red--- but it's Arsenal of the EPL. Go Gunners! Originally posted by impact07
Yeah! Go Gunners!! Ugh! :( I am from Manchester so you can imagine what I think of The Arse!! :(

Roberto

01-08-2005, 10:00

That's me in front of some pancake, sorry, but.. it was the only US food I really liked! :p

Rob.

Mike Richards

01-08-2005, 12:32

My grandson. He grabbed the Leica neck strap as I was taking a picture of him, and apparently found it a bit interesting.

RML

01-08-2005, 12:47

Wow, never thought I'd get my avatar online, but this thread pushed me. :)

My avatar shows the Centaur logo that is used by Remy Martin, the cognac brand. And yes, my full name ís Remy Martin. :p

peter_n

01-08-2005, 12:56

That explains the V.S.O.P. too! :)

EsaS

01-08-2005, 13:00

I just had snapped a few pictures of our two dogs about the time when I registered and thought this will do.
And besides, I think it is challenging to photograph them: black, quick movements, hard to have both two in decent "pose" in same photo.
Cheers, Esa

Stu :)

01-08-2005, 16:31

No story behind mine. I just like it. Looks better on fibre based 16x12.

Stu :)

d30gaijin

01-08-2005, 17:19

That's me sitting on the toilet. What? Yeah but uh… let me explain before you start with the jokes. First understand I said sitting, not sh… oh never mind. Background: My primary hobby is long-range target rifle shooting (800, 900, & 1000 yards), know internationally as Palma shooting. OK, with that much revealed, my hobby lead me to take a job running the local rifle range (it's actually a second job for me, my primary job being the Quality Assurance Director for the State of Idaho Department of Environmental Quality). OK, so living on a rifle range, well there are not a lot of amenities. I live in a singlewide trailer... oops I mean manufactured home. Living in one means there aren't a lot of mirrors in the place, the biggest being in the bathroom or… uh, toilet. So if I want to do a self-portrait, well that's where I have to go. In this case, I just received a new Panasonic FZ2 digital camera (Leica lens) and wanted to try it out. Since the weather outside was frightful (gotta love that) why not try a few indoor shots then plug it into the computer to check result. What you see is the result, a self-portrait in the only place I can shoot a self-portrait.

Sorry, wish I had a better tale but that’s the misery of it.

Don

vladhed

01-09-2005, 03:08

It's a picture of my husky Vladimir that I edited into an Icon (see my home page for more). I have the same thing of my three kids (who are my mains subjects now) - I was going to rotate them on a regular basis.

Here's a recent self-portrait of me during kitchen renos:

Peter

01-09-2005, 03:40

It is a picture from a small island's jetty off Singapore (which is a larger island itself). It brought back the memory of cold marine air and running nose. The moonlight reminds me of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.

Natalia

01-09-2005, 05:05

Originally posted by Peter
It is a picture from a small island's jetty off Singapore (which is a larger island itself). It brought back the memory of cold marine air and running nose. The moonlight reminds me of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.

the photo is beautiful, Peter. I alway wanted to know what place that was.....

Peter

01-09-2005, 18:20

Originally posted by LilRedSpy
the photo is beautiful, Peter. I alway wanted to know what place that was.....

Thanks Natalia! Glad that you like it as it is one my own favorite!

vladhed

01-10-2005, 06:02

Originally posted by Peter
Thanks Natalia! Glad that you like it as it is one my own favorite!

I'm glad we all agree! It is one of my ten favorite photos in the entire RFF gallery.

bruenhilde

01-12-2005, 23:56

That's me, Bruenhilde ;-)...

st3ph3nm

01-13-2005, 00:30

Yeah, this thread inspired me to get off my arse and do an avatar. Mine is of my lovely Datsun 2000 Sports roadster (1968 model). It was the last shot on the first roll from my XA (just about all of my films seem to have an obligatory Datsun shot, it seems!)

24x30, that's a great shot of your son. Could have been from the thirties!

Cheers all,
Steve

RML

01-13-2005, 03:22

Do I see a new female member?! Welcome Bruenhilde!

Now we have, what?, 6, 7 female members?!

peter_n

01-13-2005, 04:59

Yes welcome to the forum Bruenhilde! And from Slovenia no less! Awesome!! :)

GermanB

01-13-2005, 05:23

No story behind mine just a photo I like, I took this one in the Botero House Museum.

Welcome to the forum Bruenhilde!!

bruenhilde

01-13-2005, 05:28

Thanks Peter, RML,

I'll upload my "caffeine-camera shot" on "coffe-cam" thread tomorrow.

Too busy today... :-(

Bye.

denishr

01-13-2005, 05:29

Well, my avatar is self-explanatory: a self portrait taken with a cheap digishooter, with a fisheye attachment...

As for the new member - welcome, Bruenhilde!!!
We're practically neighbours!!!

Denis

Natalia

01-13-2005, 05:44

Originally posted by RML
Do I see a new female member?! Welcome Bruenhilde!

Now we have, what?, 6, 7 female members?!

we need to revive that "F/M poll".......

JoeFriday

01-13-2005, 06:17

mine is easy... "you'll shoot your eye out!"

Roman

01-15-2005, 00:40

OK, got a new one: me with my Sokol 2, in my bathroom.
That's why I changed it:
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2925

Roman (still looking for something better as an avatar...)

Brian Sweeney

01-15-2005, 05:38

>Roman (still looking for something better as an avatar...)

Roman, the next person that sends you free equipment to get you to change your Avatar is also going to send you a JPEG with it...

peter_n

01-15-2005, 06:46

Noooooooooo, I really loved the old one! Best avatar on the site!! :confused:

Russ

01-15-2005, 06:49

Better than mine?

Russ

Natalia

01-15-2005, 07:02

Originally posted by Russ
Better than mine?

Russ

nothing beats yours, Russ. Looks good in B&W also?

peter_n

01-15-2005, 07:17

Originally posted by Russ
Better than mine?

Russ Yep, and I lived in Dublin for 8 years so you know what I think of that focusing fluid! :D

It's the look on Roman's face - unique shall we say? ;)

FrankS

01-15-2005, 07:20

"It's the look on Roman's face - unique shall we say?"

Unguarded and genuine, would also be good descriptors.

peter_n

01-15-2005, 07:30

Indeed. So Roman, can we have the old one back please? Pretty please?? :D

RML

01-15-2005, 07:42

Roman, maybe you should hold a vote on your old avatar. :)

I changed my avatar, after only 2 days. :p

I like this one much better myself really. It shows my wife and I walking together (a thing we can't do as often as I'd like as many of you will know by now) on a sunny May day.

Todd.Hanz

01-15-2005, 07:47

Yes Roman,
the old one had much more..... character!

I re-did mine to reflect my current equip., maybe we should post a poll for the best avatar!!

Todd

FrankS

01-15-2005, 07:47

I vote for the old one in B+W.

vladhed

01-15-2005, 08:24

Originally posted by Todd.Hanz
I re-did mine to reflect my current equip., maybe we should post a poll for the best avatar!!

That's a tough one, I like all three of yours that I've seen:
- you driving
- the gargoyle wall thing
- M3 with specular reflection

I'm willing to look at the new one for a while :-)

Todd.Hanz

01-15-2005, 08:27

I have to admit though, the specular thingy is a photoshop add on!

thanks,
Todd

peter_n

01-15-2005, 08:29

yea I liked the wall picture. :)

Honu-Hugger

01-15-2005, 08:40

Roman,
I loved the old avatar -- yours and LilRedSpy's original were great. Frank's is very distinguished, peter_n's is a cool graphic, JoeFriday and bmattock's are funny...BTW LilRedSpy, why did you change yours?

D2

FrankS

01-15-2005, 09:23

Originally posted by Todd.Hanz
I have to admit though, the specular thingy is a photoshop add on!

thanks,
Todd

And I thought it was an example of that Leica glow!

Russ

01-15-2005, 11:06

Originally posted by LilRedSpy
nothing beats yours, Russ. Looks good in B&W also?

Natalia

How do I make that my Avatar? Can you do it? How did you know who I was, and who Harold was?

Thanks
Russ

FrankS

01-15-2005, 11:08

Russ, she's a spy, remember?

Natalia

01-15-2005, 11:45

Russ, I'll be happy to assist....tomorrow though....running out for a shoot!

Russ

01-15-2005, 11:48

Originally posted by FrankS
Russ, she's a spy, remember?

Dammit, Frank! Don't blow my cover. I'm a double agent, and she didn't know that, 'till you screwed things up...

Russ

Honu-Hugger

01-15-2005, 11:52

Originally posted by FrankS
Russ, she's a spy, remember?

You guys are going to get her into deep trouble with John Ashcroft's crew -- it's a different world today;)

D2

Roman

01-15-2005, 12:24

Guys, you gotta convince 'furcafe', not me, for changing back to my old avatar... It was taken with a digital point and shoot, so maybe not really fitting, anyway, and the look was rather 'genuinely drunk' than 'genuine'; I'm still looking for the perfect one, though, and this one I just took because there were two shots left on that roll of NP1600...

Roman

st3ph3nm

01-15-2005, 14:32

Bring back the gargoyle!

FrankS

01-15-2005, 16:52

Originally posted by Russ
Dammit, Frank! Don't blow my cover. I'm a double agent, and she didn't know that, 'till you screwed things up...

Russ

Pssst! Russ. I'm a triple agent. Now that I've told you, I have to kill you!:D

Doug

01-15-2005, 17:11

This "M&" avatar is a business logo for whatever business activities my wife and I might variously engage in, an abbreviation of M&M...

Todd.Hanz

01-15-2005, 17:44

Both mine combined?

Todd

back alley

01-15-2005, 18:21

i think i like it
i think...

fraley

01-15-2005, 18:27

Hi all,

I had to get a cat avatar, I'm a copy-cat! This is a stray calico in the park. Someone is feeding her. I might have to adopt her...

ps. Roman, bring back the drunken fool! Please! It always cheers me up..

Doug

01-15-2005, 19:11

Todd, I really had to laugh when I saw your lovely combo-avatar! I like it!

peter_n

01-15-2005, 19:25

Michael that cat looks kinda drunk...

FrankS

01-15-2005, 19:40

Originally posted by peter_n
Michael that cat looks kinda drunk...

Yes, genuine and unguarded.

back alley

01-15-2005, 20:31

i have a new avatar.
i call it 'ugly in the morning'. ;)

joe:)

Todd.Hanz

01-15-2005, 20:53

I call it cool!

back alley

01-15-2005, 20:54

well thank you sir.

Todd.Hanz

01-15-2005, 21:06

......don't mention it.

Designer

01-15-2005, 21:24

Todd,

I really like your new avatar very much!!:D

Keven

Todd.Hanz

01-15-2005, 21:58

..and thank you!

SolaresLarrave

01-16-2005, 04:25

Mine's an inaugural shot with a Planar 35/2, bought for my Contax G1 two years ago. It's one of my best... I think.

Thanks for the information, Peter. That's a lovely image!

peter_n

01-16-2005, 06:41

Originally posted by FrankS
Yes, genuine and unguarded. LOL Frank!

Russ

01-16-2005, 07:04

Originally posted by fraley
Hi all,

I had to get a cat avatar, I'm a copy-cat! This is a stray calico in the park. Someone is feeding her. I might have to adopt her...

ps. Roman, bring back the drunken fool! Please! It always cheers me up..

Yes! Adopt the Cat!

Russ

peter_n

01-16-2005, 07:56

Originally posted by Designer
Todd,

I really like your new avatar very much!!:D

Keven Me too! :)

Russ

01-16-2005, 17:58

Testing my new Avatar. Lil' Red Spy, did it work?

Russ

Russ

01-16-2005, 18:01

Natalia,

It worked! Alright, I'll send you that little decoder ring that you were sent here to procure from me. Either by plying me with focusing fluid, or my demise. Whichever you found easier or more enjoyable...

Russ

CleverName

01-16-2005, 19:28

I've decided to change my avatar just to see how many different cats we can get.

This was Zoe. My friend and companion for 16 years. She passed away a few months ago.

Natalia

01-16-2005, 19:31

CleverName, that's a sweet picture. Sorry for your loss......

~Natalia

vladhed

01-17-2005, 11:32

Originally posted by Todd.Hanz
Both mine combined?

Todd

How about all three - PS in the avatar of you driving as a reflection in the lens?

Nick R.

01-17-2005, 17:24

CleverName, sorry about your cat. But changing your avatar has made your original post in this thread rather interesting. (see first page).

-Nick

CleverName

01-17-2005, 18:11

Nick, I didn't think of that. It is a bit odd, isn't it. I added an edit to the original post.

2maneekameras

01-18-2005, 00:40

One February morning a few years ago my son and I were using a couple of pacemaker speedgraphics mounted on tiltall tripods. I placed a hat and shirt on one of them while using the other.

Rodinal Addict

04-13-2005, 07:51

Yesterday, I had to stay home with the flu so's not to infect the other inmates. This gave me a chance, after nearly a year of following, (and learning) from RFF, to figger out posting an avatar. I kinda like this one, it's taken at Disneylands California Adventure. It should do for now, I'm looking for one with a little more impact.
I also, in a fevered flash of clear thinking, fueled by tylenol and codeine, posted a few photos in the users gallery. Check 'em out. I've sold cars in the past, so your flames won't affect me .
Robin, the Sick

Fedzilla_Bob

04-13-2005, 08:34

I like FEDs

I like Yashica Electros, Canonets, and other Japanese cameras

FED... Zilla

I also have a bad habit of stepping on large cities and other peoples threads. Please forgive me. :)

dmr

04-13-2005, 10:14

The one I recently changed to, which I use on other systems as well, is a scan of a note that appeared on a bulletin board with an ascii cartoon and a "Who does this look like?" note attached. :)

The one I used here for a while, which I also use on other systems as well, is one of me that I had taken shortly after I turned the big four-oh, before I got any older. Not to admit my real age now, but it's almost got a retro look to it now. :) :(

dreilly

04-13-2005, 10:23

This is me at this very wierd club in New York City (maybe defunct already?)

I can't remember the name of it, but the whole place is wired with little closed-circuit cameras under glass bubbles. There are TV control stations and telephones networked everywhere too. So you can take control of the various cameras from any one of the stations, browse around and zoom in to check people out, see what they are seeing through their cameras, and call them up to chat. It's the equivalent of what I remember happening in the college computer room in the early 1990s, everyone "chatting" with each other even though they were all ten feet away, but with more bells and whistles. Very odd place, but kind of cool.

Oh, and you could snap pictures that would all get put up a website the next day. My avatar is from there. I had my Meopta with me and I took some pictures with that, but this was actually taken through the bar's camera system.

JOE1951

04-13-2005, 10:34

My avatar is of me drinking Tequila. Taken with a Super8 by a friend of mine.

The name "JOE1951" refers to the name of a movie script/short story/novel/stageplay/whatever, idea I've been playing around with on and off for the past 15 yrs.

cheers

iDude

04-13-2005, 10:47

Mine's my significant other.

ijonas

04-13-2005, 13:00

My avatar is me when I was 3 years old, taken by my dad with a rangefinder, back in the day (1975) on Tri-X (probably) and developed in the bathroom.

This is me 28 years later http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijonas/4484412/.

Wayne R. Scott

04-13-2005, 14:08

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.

yankeedoll

04-13-2005, 15:25

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. )

J.Ed

04-13-2005, 15:30

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.

sockeyed

04-13-2005, 15:38

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...

RubenBlaedel

04-13-2005, 16:05

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 :-)

Doug

04-13-2005, 18:37

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!

tedwhite

04-13-2005, 19:14

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.

Gabriel M.A.

05-08-2005, 09:59

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.

Gabriel M.A.

05-08-2005, 10:14

That's me in front of some pancake, sorry, but.. it was the only US food I really liked! :p

Rob.

Roberto: I feel your pain.

cathy_w_J

05-08-2005, 15:04

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.

einolu

05-08-2005, 15:53

mine is a picture I sketched one day while bored during a lecture, hah.

Sean Reid

05-08-2005, 16:42

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

Flow

05-08-2005, 17:22

sockeyed you look really cool in that picture... :p

Matthew

05-08-2005, 17:46

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…

nwcanonman

05-08-2005, 17:54

Mine is just me, Oly SP in hand, taken by my lovely wife.
I'm planning a new avitar pic this week thought ~ ; - )

richard_l

05-08-2005, 19:03

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).

dominicLF

05-08-2005, 19:23

Mine is this thing that I just built: a massive 300mm/f2 lens. I shot half a roll of Ilford PanF with it today and should have some initial shots in a gallery next week. You can see the details at: http://www.lefave.net/SKL.htm

suzums

05-08-2005, 19:49

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.

wlewisiii

05-08-2005, 20:16

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

jan normandale

05-08-2005, 20:47

My first avatar was me wearing a Chinese Communist party winter hat complete with five point red star in the front fleece flap. Then I saw people change their avatars ( Joe/backalley) and I realized the infinite opportunites presented. I immediately went looking for a new avatar. I like paint a lot so the current avatar is two fluorescent red dots on granite pavers at First Canadian Place in Toronto a 72 storey office/retail complex in the downtown business district , which I walk past/thru daily. I liked the geometrics so I took the shot.

Mystery explained. There ya go!

Jan

Terence T

05-09-2005, 01:58

Mine is of a DC-3 taken in Chino, California while on a visit to an air museum. I'm a bit of an airplane nut and I quite enjoy these classic airliners.

jmilkins

05-09-2005, 04:51

mine is a "shadow portrait" of me doing two things I love - bushwalking and photography. The Bessa L, 25 and 15 make for a very light walking kit.

reagan

05-09-2005, 05:50

Street Musician playing a pan flute in Zacatecus Mexico.

I love Zacatecus. I shot this with a [cheap quality] 300mm telephoto through the window of a wonderful restaurant. A month later, the camera and lens I used for this shot were destroyed. In shopping for a replacement, I stumbled into RF's, tools I haven't used since high school. It's good to be back.

Good thread. Avitars change. An Avitar log is good. (Since my Avitar is soon to change, I've attached.)

Bertram2

05-09-2005, 08:18

This is a picture of my father. He's in his 70's. I think he has an interesting look. One day I may look like my father.

Wow, this seems to get the longest thread of all ever posted here !:-)
Somebody once said my avatar would be the coolest of all in RFF, an enormous flattering exaggeration of course which I cannot accept at all !! :angel:
When I got the Bessa R in March 2002 I went out to the local park and shot some statues, to see what the Nokton and the 75 were able for wide open, sharpness, OOF details and contrast with BW400CN.
Some of the series are attached here, the one I use for the avatar is the best approach IMO , showing the artists will best, which was to prove that women must not almost die from hunger to look physically attractive.

Two weeks after I had been there I found the statue with this POV in a local newspaper, shot by a pro, which confirmed that my choice wasn't too wrong tho it looks a bit frightening too.
Best,
Bertram

dmr

05-09-2005, 08:54

Mine is of a DC-3 taken in Chino, California while on a visit to an air museum.

Not to show my real age, but I actually remember flying in one of those.

I'm a bit of an airplane nut and I quite enjoy these classic airliners.

Actually, I don't like to fly. I do it, but I don't like it. Never feel comfortable up there.

jorisbens

05-09-2005, 09:27

The picture of my avatar is Carlsbridge in Prague, it's a picture of the first roll of film in my first rangefinder (bought in Prague). I hated the original photo, but i really like the edited one.

My first avatar on the forum was an old picture from jon bon jovi.

grizzz

05-09-2005, 09:34

Mine is me at 2. I was actually cute once, now things have fallen apart a little er alot :p

Terence T

05-11-2005, 17:41

Not to show my real age, but I actually remember flying in one of those.

Actually, I don't like to fly. I do it, but I don't like it. Never feel comfortable up there.

I'd kill for an opportunity to fly in one of those. The drone of those huge radials must've been something. I used to hate flying too until I had the opportunity to work the controls of an airplane. Modern airliners are a lot safer than you think they are, else I wouldn't have considered flying for a living.

wlewisiii

05-11-2005, 17:46

Hair front 90 is rather nice though too. Thank you for sharing them all; I greatly appreciate it.

William

hoot

05-11-2005, 17:57

Me as a kid, photographed by my mom using a point & shoot with built-in flash.

DaveSee

05-11-2005, 18:10

A portrait of me and my wife by our kid... a different medium, but then again, so is this
(terrific!) forum.

reagan

05-16-2005, 20:31

My ol' buddy. This is his good eye. The other is permanently locked in a viewfinder squint. ;) Taken with Z4/J8.

Pecker

05-16-2005, 20:35

"explain your avatar"
Do I have to?

parks5920

05-16-2005, 21:48

Working late on the backlot at Universal Studios, took a golf cart up to 'Psycho Lane' for a couple of shots, the hotel totally creeped us out.

Justin Smith

05-17-2005, 08:49

This is a picture of me taken over a year ago by my daughter with a LOMO Actionsampler at an air show. (For those of you not familiar with this plastic camera, it takes four sequential shots on a single 35mm frame. This is a crop of one.)

Fedzilla_Bob

05-17-2005, 09:01

My avatar is usually some variation on the Godzilla theme. I decided to behave as an adult for a little while, hence the sumptuous closeup of the Cintagon 50mm lens on my Argus C-44.

kiev4a

05-17-2005, 09:11

I've been changing relatively often but have settled in for awhile on a CU of the top of a Zorki 1. I had about 30 of these puppies at one time but have pared down to about a dozen.

Little Prince

05-17-2005, 10:06

DaveSee, now you know what your kid thinks of you as: a potato :D ! No avatar for me yet, no scanner :( .

vincentbenoit

05-17-2005, 10:10

Just a pic taken in a drunken stupor at a party...
http://www.pbase.com/vincentbenoit/party_animals
Cheers
Vincent

laptoprob

06-15-2005, 08:58

Mine is one of the very first photos I made with a RF. I started out with the 15mm Heliar on a FED2. Learned from this one that at f4,5 the lens shows quite some vignetting and stretching. You can put that to use.
Nowadays I have a little spirit level on the side of my finder to show when perfectly vertical. That is almost impossible to see.
The last comment belongs to the favourite gizmo's!

Rob.

Duncan Ross

06-15-2005, 09:16

Mine is a magicube. I genuinely feel flash/magicubes are one of the most significant yet underrated developments in photography in the last 50 years.

'Bring the sun inside'!

TPPhotog

06-15-2005, 09:38

Mines just one of the two local coffee shops in Totnes that is frequented by artists (and alas grockles (tourists)). It was one of the first street shots I was reasonably happy with. The female in the picture has become a family friend as do several of the locals I shoot, as is also usual I didn't know either of them before I captured them. They were great as I asked them if I could get some shots and after agreeing they carried on as they had been before I arrived.

Btw. We do have several coffee shops here just like most places in the South West as visitors to Devon will know, but the others are just typical ones :(

jaapv

06-15-2005, 09:38

Horror-Shot digitally on a Canon 10D :eek: Just a Leopard by the side of the road in Zambia.Wildlife is one of my photographic passions especially in Africa. Not very suited to RF I fear.

ErnestoJL

06-15-2005, 10:04

My avatar is very simple: it´s me at the prototype production line room at the small electronics factory I´m currently working in. Think I´d like to change it...
Ernesto

Fred

06-15-2005, 13:04

This is Freddie who's very sharp in each corner, originally a test shot for a used basic Metz flash. When I joined I couldn't think of a original name so when I saw my cat Fred wander by stopping only to pick the carpet (again) I thought why not.

Doug

06-15-2005, 13:13

Fred, it seems most of us in RFF have used cat avatars, so yours is a fine addition! Good job on a difficult exposure, too.

dmr

06-15-2005, 13:33

Fred, it seems most of us in RFF have used cat avatars, so yours is a fine addition! Good job on a difficult exposure, too.

Ok, I'll join the club -- for a while at least. :) <MEOW!> :)

Doug

06-15-2005, 16:14

Ok, here's Ruff! :) Even as a baby in this shot, it's clear he has long legs. Now he's long and lean and has a big mane/ruff

andrewch

06-15-2005, 16:20

Mine is the Toffee, my 2 year old Jack Russell Terrier.

shaaktiman

06-15-2005, 17:40

Halloween, 2002. The really neat thing about Mr. T is that it doesn't matter that I'm a 5'7" scrawny white guy. Mr. T is all about the accessories.

And Shaaktiman is a well known Indian superhero. Well known in India anyway. He's cool, but I don't know much about him. Mostly I'm a fan of Indian stuff in general and he sort of embodies that interest for me.

Doug

06-15-2005, 17:51

Andrew! Toffee is a cutie! :)

dmr

06-15-2005, 17:58

Ok, here's Ruff! :) Even as a baby in this shot, it's clear he has long legs. Now he's long and lean and has a big mane/ruff

AAaaawwwww, he looks just like one I used to have, who passed away in 2000. <sniff> Right down to the white paws and all. Mine developed quite a mane too, particularly in winter.

Do you know his breed(s)? Mine was a mix Norwegian Forest Cat and plain old Tabby.

andrewch

06-15-2005, 18:20

Hi Doug,

Ruff is a cutie too :) The picture for the avatar was taken when he was around 6 month old. Now he is a big boy ;)

vha

06-15-2005, 18:22

Mine is a shadow portrait taken somewhere in Buenos Aires Centro.
Was walking around looking for some new photos for my webpage, and ended up with this instead.
And as quite often I´m wearing my Sennheiser HD 25-1 headphones, probably listening to some jazz, Chet Baker I think as well. . .

vha.

tedwhite

06-15-2005, 19:01

Doug

06-15-2005, 19:19

Do you know his breed(s)? Mine was a mix Norwegian Forest Cat and plain old Tabby.I don't, though he resembles a Main Coon somewhat, but I expect he's pretty mixed... Here he is in front snoozing with his two sisters....

dmr

06-15-2005, 19:42

I don't, though he resembles a Main Coon somewhat, but I expect he's pretty mixed... Here he is in front snoozing with his two sisters....

Awwwww ... again. :) That white one is cute too. :)

I have one stark white one, blue eyes, normal hearing, and I could easily fill a gallery album with cat photos, but I've found out that when you show photos of your cats, unless the people you're showing them to are really into cats, they really don't care. :)

Maine Coon and Norwegian Forest cats have similar markings. I'm not an expert on cat breeds, but I do know that Maine Coon cats tend to be VERY large, as in gargantuan, and they also tend to like water. If he voluntarily jumps in a filled bathtub or sink, he probably has Maine Coon blood. :)

vha

06-15-2005, 19:59

Listening to Chet Baker in Argentina. Obviously absolutely true, but I couldn't have dreamed it up.

Wow. What about Cal Tjader or George Shearing or Dave Brubeck? Same period, same cool, laid-back music....

Ted

well, once upon a time the idea was to buy some jazz music, come about to Chet Baker, and I`v been there since. "'round Midnight" for instance is always to recommend. Think I´ll have to test it with som night photography once. . . :D

Think I have some tango on my Ipod somewhere, but . . . . . would be like bringing take away coffee to your cafe on the corner.

Else its nice to have a brake sometimes from all the traffic noise.

MrRanger

06-15-2005, 21:27

Mine is just my trusty Polaroid 360 with electronic flash - my first Rangefinder :p
The best of the classic Polaroid Land Cameras - IMOHO! :rolleyes:

Mike :D

cp_ste.croix

06-15-2005, 21:40

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.

suzums

06-15-2005, 22:37

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!

rich815

06-15-2005, 23:02

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.

pvdhaar

06-16-2005, 00:01

Mine was a crop from one of a kitch series of nine that constitute a (very) short story that you can find here: http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation?presentation_id=226996

The double image rhymed well with the rangefinder theme and was therefore used..

It has since been changed to a cat picture..

cameramanic

06-16-2005, 00:58

Mine is street performers on La Rambla Barcelona

Koolzakukumba

06-16-2005, 02:39

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

Heath

06-16-2005, 03:44

Mine is my Neoca IVS rangefinder. NIce camera that you don't see too many of.

Heath

thpook

06-16-2005, 05:54

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.

Heath

06-17-2005, 00:26

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

popitz

06-29-2005, 02:26

my avatar is my very first rangefinder, a 1951 Kiev II. i like the cyrillic logo.

jaapv

06-29-2005, 04:01

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)

Bill K.

06-29-2005, 04:47

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.

RJBender

08-20-2005, 14:26

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.

dmr

08-20-2005, 14:53

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. :)

Fred

08-20-2005, 15:25

Nice one ManGo. Although those valves don't look desmo (Ducatti) :D :rolleyes: . Keep on toot'n.

Roman

08-20-2005, 15:45

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

richard_l

08-20-2005, 15:47

It's a watercolor painting loosely based on a photo taken in Doughton Park on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina.

Terence T

08-20-2005, 15:49

Not really new, changed it maybe a month back. It's of a closeup of a MP which I became real intimate with...

glenbarn

08-20-2005, 15:56

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.

Byuphoto

08-20-2005, 16:01

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

rover

08-20-2005, 16:09

Woof, woof...woof

dmr

08-20-2005, 16:15

Woof, woof...woof

"Meow!", said the dog, "Everybody should learn a second language." :)

ducttape

08-20-2005, 16:18

Europe, 1972

back alley

08-20-2005, 16:33

i have this constant battle with myself about my avatar.

being that this is a site about rangefinder photography, part of me thinks it should be a photograph that i have taken and another part of me thinks it should be of the equipment that i use to take the photographs.

therefore, i tend to go back & forth with different avatars.

this current one was a shot i had taken for the coffee & camera thread but i liked it enough to want it around for longer.

i even had a 8x12 print made of it and am looking for a frame for it now.

joe

Skinny McGee

08-20-2005, 16:47

I love the 1930's style of portraits. so I did a self portrait in front of o some of my 1930's style art work.. with a 111A and and a 1935 Summar.. Althought the suit that I have on is a German 1943.... I would like to replace it with one alittle more in focus.... But I think it does have a neat glow to it.......

egpj

08-20-2005, 19:12

My youngest daughter snapped mine with an MP and 50 Summilux ASPH. It is probably the only picture of me that I like.

Little Prince

08-20-2005, 23:59

Mine... it is the Little Prince!

darkkavenger

08-21-2005, 03:14

KMZ logo :) Though now I'm more into Kievs & Contaxes
Krasnogorskij Mechanicheskij Zavod :D

Richard Black

08-21-2005, 04:38

My curent avatar is one I took with a GSN, which I sold, in a auto graveyard. I really don't know what it means, but I just like it. It will change when something else comes along.

Uncle Bill

08-21-2005, 15:45

I have none, yet. I like the minimalism.

Bill

XAos

08-21-2005, 16:32

It's a detail of my license plate, taken with my GSN, then edited to make it look like it was taken through the viewfinder of the GSN. The RF on the plate and the RF on the forum marquee just sort of connected in my brain.

Uploaded because people tend to change their avatars over time.

erudolph

08-21-2005, 20:34

This old toy was given to my girlfriend by an old painter named Milton Resnick. We were visiting New York and I wanted to go visit him but she wasn't that interested in going along. Milton said, "Tell her if she comes I'll give her a toy." He knew she collected old toys.... Ed

By the way, I shot it with a C220.

MP Guy

08-21-2005, 20:51

Reverend Al Bundy. Al is my all time favourite character from TV. I watch Married with Children (MWC) whenever it is on. At one time it was on twice nightly on FX and it was my going to bed wind down for the eve R&R tv viewing. It just does not get any better than MWC.

In the avatar , Al strats a church for getting rich and so on ... As yo can imagine, Marcy busrst his bubble.

nemjo

08-22-2005, 01:28

They are my godchildren.
The picture was made with my first digicam, a Casio QV300 years before.
It made pics 640x480 only, so this time it's perfect for avatars.

nemjo

Marc Jutras

08-23-2005, 17:03

Why not! This shot is so cheesy I had to use it!

It was taken while I was shooting a golf tournament at Glen Abey Golf Club near Toronto. The cup was there with other trophees from the NHL. We were taking picture of all particpants with the cup and as a joke, decided to shoot each other as well (we were three photographers).

julianphotoart

08-23-2005, 20:32

Just a quick shot coming home from work after getting off the e/b streetcar at Greenwood & Queen (Toronto). Something kind of eerie about the shot -- all just luck, including the exposure. Obviously snowing a fair bit that evening. The snow really kind of lit up the night -- one can see distant smokestacks that are usually invisible at night. This particular streetcar "short turned" at Greenwood rather than continuing to Neville Park or Victoria Park. This shot is of the car as it made the turn into the yard.

satbunny

08-24-2005, 03:49

Me, in a bar in Amsterdam. Taken with a camera phone!

Elmer Fishpaw

08-24-2005, 04:25

I took mine from a guy on the web who sells whimsical nautical novelties. I think he got from somewhere because I saw it years ago in a advert for something (don' t recall). Just a fun looking face. In real life I'm just a very average, blend in looking guy.

nomade

08-24-2005, 14:01

Mine is a white bear, he was sleeping in his lodge in toronto zoo...I love him, when i saw him, i just yelled , i want one...I can't get him out of my mind...:(

harry01562

08-24-2005, 21:07

Mine is just a gathering of my Canon 7's. I collect Canon RF's (and SLR's), and these are among my favorites. The extra 7s is a shooter, so that I can use my 50/0.95 for something practical. It's a much better lens than many give it credit for, and a bit(?) cheaper than the competition, if not as sharp.

Harry

Evgeny S

08-25-2005, 01:07

Mine is just I like subs ;)
This is actual photo of me taken into the conning-tower of the Russian "641 project" submarine (NATO class "Foxtrot"). The uniform I wear with the insignia of Captain (looks the same as in the US Navy) belongs to my father, who was the Soviet Naval officer (he's retired now). :)

XAos

10-21-2005, 08:27

New avatar - one from the series of yawns I shot. Sobel edge detection and some tweaking. Cats go through some pretty wild looking faces in a yawn that - taken out of context, can look looney / ferocious / cranky, etc.. The edge detection just kinda makes it look like something from Where the Wild Things Are. I titled this one The Monster Under the Bed, after it came up in the Ghosts of Ghettysburg thread. Halloween is right around the corner.

Hektor

10-21-2005, 08:34

That's my Hektor

lido

10-21-2005, 08:36

Mine is a monkey playing with himself on top of the tree at African Lion Safari, Guelph, Ontario Canada. Took my kids there this summer, but they were more interested in running around in the van than animals. We parked and watched this guy for quite a while. Taken with D70 an 70-200 VR.

Byuphoto

10-21-2005, 09:46

My new one, I change a lot, is a neon outline of my Bessa R

pedro.m.reis

10-21-2005, 10:35

Mine is my Maine Coon cat, Luna.
One of my tri-x -> rodinal -> scanner tests.

je2a3

10-21-2005, 10:54

This was the ugliest Zorki 6 in my collection but it worked very well after a lever wind CLA so I painted it using rustoleum grey hammerite and wrapped it in AKI-asahi leather.

Honu-Hugger

10-21-2005, 11:02

I forgot about this thread, and forgot I changed my avatar. A friend shoots stock and he wanted some motorcycle shots so I roared around the neighborhood for him one evening.

kbg32

10-21-2005, 11:17

Any suggestions for uploading an avatar? For some reason mine won't upload even though I am using the proper specs.

cp_ste.croix

10-21-2005, 12:18

mine is me, taken with my Canonet, with just a bit of arty lens flare :)

back alley

10-21-2005, 12:26

Any suggestions for uploading an avatar? For some reason mine won't upload even though I am using the proper specs.

try changing the size, just a tiny bit, even if it is already sized to fit.

joe

kbg32

10-21-2005, 13:01

try changing the size, just a tiny bit, even if it is already sized to fit.

joe

Thanks Joe. I have tried everything - changing the size a bit, and it keeps telling me it's too big. The image is always 125 pixels, 19kb or less, and it just won't upload.

I give up...... :bang:

fgarciam

10-21-2005, 13:12

It's me , at the New York World Fair. The strap belongs to a toy camera.

shutterflower

10-21-2005, 13:15

Gabriel M.A.

10-21-2005, 13:40

I changed my avatar in the past week or so. My current avatar is of myself, shooting with my Leica M6, with a Canon 50mm f/1.2; it was a test shot (and yes, I use my left eye).

Richard Black

10-21-2005, 14:46

Mine is a couple of old rusted pickup taken with a now-sold Yashica GSN. I guess it reflects how I feel somedays getting up, beat up and rusted!

Erl

10-21-2005, 15:54

As I watched two birds fly towards me, I wondered, is that a big bird far away, or a small bird close up? Which one will win? Is Escher playing with my mind? I only had a nano-second to answer all these questions. Consequently I garbled the whole damn thing!

VinceC

10-21-2005, 17:54

Earlier this year I was letting my children play with some of my old cameras, which are really quite childproof. My five-year-old is fascinated by the Nikon S2. The magnification of the viewfinder is 1:1 so she kept her other eye open, which is also the way I shoot. This was the first time she had ever handled any of my film cameras, and I was really quite surprised at how the controls naturally fit into her hands.

Mister_Hat

10-21-2005, 18:28

Mine is a rabbit that turned up in the frontyard while I was unwrapping my new (used) 500mm telephoto.

wlewisiii

10-21-2005, 19:01

Mine is a shot I took with my Mamiya of one of my models. It was totally candid, sudden, and perfect. We had finished a shoot, and I had packed my camera gear in the car (almost) when I turned around to see her standing there like that. It as cold and gray, about to rain, and she didn't feel great, and we were both starving.

I had a camera in my hand, saw her and just snapped it. She has the best hair on the planet. Cherokee and Irish blood. VERY fun to work with. This is my prize shot.

the full size version is found here : http://www.shutterflower.com/facepage.htm

My best shot of my son was like that. He was about 18 months old, or so, and had focused in on what he was eating. I just slipped the camera up, slipped the zoom to max (sorry, no RF content in this one), and composed on the fly. You can see it
here (http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=300&cat=3444&page=8&sortby=f&sorttime=all&way=asc)

Thanks for explaining and sharing that shot. Why do I have this feeling it was _the_ keeper of the shoot?

William

richard_l

10-21-2005, 19:28

Mine is the Cape Hattaras Lighthouse. It's a 200 ft tall structure (tallest lighthouse in the US, I think) which they managed to move (basically intact) several hundred feet to its present location, to delay its destruction by beach erosion.

I love to hang out on the Outer Banks of NC. It's like escaping to another world. I haven't even begun to take advantage of all the photo opportunities on the islands.

Wayne R. Scott

10-21-2005, 20:41

I think I have changed mine since I first answered this thread. This one is of a nighttime thunderstorm that was approaching town around midnight. I shot this with a Contax IIa and 21mm Biogon.

Wayne

dmr

10-21-2005, 21:24

Look closely :)

RJBender

10-21-2005, 22:02

Look closely :)

Ghost?

R.J.

unky tone

10-22-2005, 00:32

mine is my son holding the yashica electro 35 that I bought for 25 bucks while I was agonising about trying out rangefinder cameras. 2 weeks later I bought a konica RF kit. 3 weeks after that a colleague gave me his canonet because he was only using the case to hold his ipod!

MacDaddy

10-22-2005, 03:54

Mine is a wagon at Aspen Lodge outside Estes Park, Colorado where my younger sister and her husband and my Mom now live. I was there for the wedding of my neice and took an early morning late September drive about 9 miles SW of town when I was this wagon. I've been going to Estes Park for over 40 years but this was the first time I'd gone in the Fall. The photo has been published on macdesktops.com as well.

hugivza

10-26-2005, 02:05

Mine, which I have just changed from a boring old Contax IIIa is our two 2 year old male (well they started out that way:)) beagles tussling over a toy. Today is their second birthday, and we know that they each have pocket somewhere on their anatomy which has a whole bunch of money in it which we have not found yet!

harry01562

10-26-2005, 15:23

Just the grouping of the last items in my Canon RF collection. There is a 7, 2x 7s, and a 7sz. The 0.95 in front is possibly a factory prototype of the later TV type, and the 68th lens produced, according to the serial number. One of the 7s's is a shooter, usually mounting either the 1.2 or a coupled 0.95. I'd hate to lose my camera bag... :mad:
Harry

FPjohn

10-27-2005, 17:30

Hello:

While attempting to sell me a DigiLux, the Camera Company also mentioned a 111b set badly in need of a good home. It was an easy sell (no Digilux) and after a trip to DAG the 111b happily produces images with a 25mm Skopar, 35mm f2.8 Canon and 90mm Elmar. The 50mm f2.8 Canon (1) competes with the original Elmar f3.5.

yours
Frank

ddunn

12-15-2005, 07:49

Another cat. This is John, or, more correctly "Big John." He's named after the USS John F. Kennedy, which my son was serving on at the time we rescued John from the pound.

physiognomy

12-15-2005, 07:58

Sorry... no cat.... (people seem to like feline avitars!). Just a shot of my Keiv 4 I took while trying to work out how to take a decent staged picture with a digicam... It's probably time for a change... Maybe I need a new camera!

Peter

iñaki

12-15-2005, 08:15

It´s my selfportrait, done about 10 years ago with my first camera, a Nikon SRL. Of course no photoshop there, just an easy but funny trick I read on a book.

pesphoto

12-15-2005, 08:40

Mine is a just some random guy getting ready to leave the office at night. I saw him thru the curtains of his window and he just seemed so dejected at that moment for some reason.

physiognomy

04-01-2006, 20:46

I noticed a few new/updated avatars & thought I would retrieve this thread... Just bought a Rollei 16s (more for a conversation/collection piece) and thought a ps'd shot would make a fine new avatar... When the gallery is up and running I'll add the original shot to 'my cameras' folder...

Peter

jan normandale

04-01-2006, 20:49

it's my face..... next question..

DougK

04-01-2006, 20:54

I like frogs. It's also one of my first successful photos from when I started getting serious about photography a few years ago.

physiognomy

04-01-2006, 20:55

Self portrait Jan? .... Sorry, couldn't help myself....

Peter

mitspooner

04-01-2006, 21:16

The mighty boosh, show on BBC3. One of the funniest comedy's out there. Up there with M*A*S*H.

cp_ste.croix

04-01-2006, 22:33

a neat t shirt i didn't buy...

nrb

04-01-2006, 22:41

my reflection on a window glass on my first street walk after surgery

akptc

04-01-2006, 22:55

The very first zebra I fotographed, ever :)

Rich Silfver

04-02-2006, 00:25

Mine is me outside of a coffee shop here in San Francisco. Photo courtesy of MelanieC a fellow RFF member.

telenous

04-02-2006, 00:35

The mask doctors were wearing during the plague in Venice (they were putting medicine in the long snout). I photographed the mask together with a photo of it. And then I reiterated the process a couple of times to give the appearance of infinite regress in the photo. I call the photo 'The infinite regress of Dr Death'.