Explain your avatar...

[Corto]

Its a lamp......

[sepiareverb]

It's the shutter speed dial of my .58 black chrome MP, shot with my iPhone through that teeny Leica "loupe".

[Pablito]

Those who would know, know.

[flip]

A chimp at Oji zoo in Kobe (originally holding a leaf).

[lewis44]

Simply Put -------

"This Dude Abide's"

[ColSebastianMoran]

Best heavy-game shooter in the Eastern Empire.

[fotomeow]

long exposure evening shot in Death Valley, and then a stick figure
crawled out of my body and climbed up on the rock to pose

[Bobble]

He was just a pup

[ferider]

Me on my commute. My avatars change every couple of months.

[FrankS]

Originally Posted by ferider

Me on my commute. My avatars change every couple of months.

I liked the motorcycle one.

[mwooten]

Rickenbacker 360 Jetglo

[-JQ-]

1950 Studebaker Commander shot at a local car show w/17-40 on 5D...really close.

[randolph45]

Originally Posted by FrankS

Picture of my father taken in a coffee shop with a Konica Hexar AF. Great lens on that camera. If the aperture, shutter speed, and manual focus controls on that camera were traditional dials instead of push buttons, it might have been the perfect camera for me.

Frank
This is another picture that i really like.The focus of your fathers gaze,the tilt of his head and the reflection from his glasses draw the viewer in.Well done.

[RedLion]

My Fuji GF670

[Keith]

So what's to explain?

I've only attempted to change it once and under some pressure reverted back to type one ... seems I'm stuck with this image of the archetypal Aussie!

Oh yes ... and interestingly the camera is my M2 which is now my only M mount film rangefinder. It's as glued to me as that image seems to be!

[RichW]

One of the first pictures I ever took that I still have the negative from - it's about 20 years ago and it's my brother kicking a football at me! I think I have gotten a tiny bit better at photography since, at least now I tend to make sure my finger isn't over the lens... most of the time

Oh, I only actually got it developed a few weeks ago, it was sitting in the camera (an old Kodak Instamatic or similar) the whole time since it was taken all those years ago!

[jayavant]

I have a photo rather like that somewhere - the first I ever took too.

My avatar is a selfie I took with a little Leica point and shoot digital just outside of Quilpie in western Queensland. It's a few years old now. I like it because it shows the open featureless landscape out there.

[BradM]

I do WW2 re-enacting, and this is me being a sodden Red naval infantry soldier in a pine forest.

[L David Tomei]

Several years ago I had an email address on some Google group that began to be filled with porn pics by the hundreds. They were IMO degrading and I hated them. I then hit on the idea to pshop them.. after all, they were free images of models who were often beautiful women though in absurdly vulgar images. So, I reduced some into the very simplest B&W images that seemed to catch something else. Maybe I was a little bored then, I don't know, trying to make a silk purse from a sow's ear.

[skibeerr]

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Wim by wim_b, on Flickr[/IMG]

This was made for the course I attended at KASKA. The assignment was "Make a self portrait of what you are not" The facial hair was grown for this purpose.

[sanmich]

I thought I didn't like portraits as a genre, that I was unable to appreciate a good portrait from a lousy one.
Then I discovered Irving Penn in an exhibition in NY....

[bigeye]

Thunnus obesus
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[David Hughes]

Originally Posted by flip

A chimp at Oji zoo in Kobe (originally holding a leaf).

Wow, I wouldn't hand a camera with a leaf back on it to a chimp.

Regards, David

[Penny Lane]

The badge on the bootlid of a Citroën DSuper from 1973 or thereabouts.

The Citroën ID/DS series is probably the single most spectacular car ever made; the Goddess (Déesse) moniker was pretty well deserved. I ran one for a few months, but it's been laid up to be donor for a repair/restauration project of what used to be a Citroën DS 23 i.e. Pallas, on which my father is currently working.

In the mean time, I have to make do with a Citroën Xantia Turbodiesel with 300.000 miles on it. That still has the same oleo-pneumatic suspension system though, with comfort spheres mounted, so it's not at all bad. You see, I'm hopelessly Citrophile

Derk

[mhv]

This rather-morose looking fellow, apart from resembling me due to his formidable shaven head, also happens to be the director of La Jetée, Sans Soleil, and countless other little marvels of cinema and photograhy.

I thought he could use the exposure, him being so shy and all...