Explain your avatar...

[ornate_wrasse]

I was taking a picture, using my Mamiya 6 mounted on a tripod, of Punchbowl Falls, a waterfall near Mt. Hood in Oregon when someone captured me taking the picture.

A few moments after the shot was taken, I fell into the icy water after losing my footing on the slippery rocks.

[kxl]

Me with my Nikon F5 and 17-35mm/2.8 on a snowy day maybe 10 years ago @ my friend's cabin in Big Bear, CA. The cabin's gone (and so is the F5), and my friend has since gone the ex-pat route (SE Asia) though we still keep in touch.

Good times...

[oftheherd]

When many of us were buying our RF hats, I think I was one of the first to get mine. I didn't really want to put a likeness of myself as my avatar. So I made a likeness from rotating my head in time with the light on my flatbed scanner, making that my 'face' and showed it as my proof I had my hat, making it my avatar.

I still have the hat. Does anyone else?

[t.s.k.]

I just love CATS

Actually they were the first dogs I had as an adult, taken with a Hasselblad in a friend's studio.
The avatar is a heavily cropped version to fulfill the measly kb limit.
They both passed in '09 6 months apart -- ages 14 and 16 -- it was tough year.

[finguanzo]

Its Santa Claus..

[Lund]

It's me. A digital shot I played around with for a while.

[Phil_F_NM]

This is a "four hole burnout." Burning human waste, with a quart of diesel fuel mixed in.
I took this shot outside the gutted apartment complex I stayed in while we were staging the siege of Fallujah, Iraq in November, 2004.



A statement on how I feel about life in general, I guess. Sometimes it could be better, sometimes it could be worse, and sometimes I could be stirring a drum of burning s**t with a piece of rebar...

Phil Forrest

[krötenblender]

Originally Posted by t.s.k.

The avatar is a heavily cropped version to fulfill the measly kb limit.

That's why I suggest to post all you avatars as big real images here. Let's see them, explain them.

Very interesting stuff so far, but sadly very few big images. You chose them to be you, show us!

[GaryLH]

Close up of lens from Zeiss super ikonta.

U will mostly likely catch me shooting BW film using a folder of one type or another.. For now, tonal quality I can get from BW film cannot compare with anything i have done or seen in digital, especially in mf or lf...

Gary

[GaryLH]

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 that is nice one of your dad.
Gary

[mbisc]

Mine -- digicam picture from Kushinagar, a peaceful spot in the Indian country side

[Darkhorse]

it's my wife

[coelacanth]

It's from my cup-doodles (3-minute doodles)

[dasuess]

My avatar is a reflection of myself in a storefront window taken back in 1973 with a Leica M2 and 35/f2 Summicron, inspired by the cover of the Graham Nash solo album "Songs for Beginners".

[SausalitoDog]

Utterly fantastic!!!

What talent you have for cup doodles !!!

[GaryLH]

Originally Posted by SausalitoDog

Utterly fantastic!!!

What talent you have for cup doodles !!!

+1

Sug way cool... Especially the one about your alarm clock. Reminds me of our cat before she passed away...

Gary

[buzzardkid]

My avatar was shot with a Leica M8, a W-Komura 28/3.5 LTM and a 55mm-threaded Yashica Wide Auxilliary lens for the GSN that had it's rear element reversed. No photoshop on this, it's all optics.

It's snap shot in the mirror in the bedroom.

I like the grin, the red patch from my Mamiya t-shirt under my black shirt, doubling as a red heart in a black silhouette.

The torn gypsy hat, that's just my non-conformist part showing.

[Muggins]

Mine is an endpaper from this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gray172...57615594775003

I particularly love the little note bound into it:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gray172...7615594775003/

I have several Kodak booklets of this sort of vintage, but this is quite different - smaller and hard-bound, and is the only non-Kodak one of this age I've ever seen. My only concern is that people might think I'm the lass in my avatar - I'm neither female nor this composed behind the lens!

Adrian

[johnamazement]

A picture I took with my Yashica-Mat of my five year old son trying to focus my M4-P and collapsible Summicron.

[Chris101]

My avatar is me. It used to show my M4P, but recently I changed just the camera part to a KSC. So now I can see you in 3D.

[loquax ludens]

My current one is one end of a FILCA. Not sure if technically that is the bottom or the top. :-)

[jackbaty]

I was holding my Minolta Autocord when someone asked, "Is that a camera?" I answered, "Nope, it's my cell phone, see?"

[Bob Michaels]

Mine is Mr. Curtis Robinson who I photographed in 2005 as a part of my South Apopka series. I still stop by to visit him but his health is poor.

I was looking for something bold and distinctive back when I joined RFF. This was a high rez scan of a 6x6 neg so I knew it could be cropped substantially. I never considered a photo of myself since I am one of the most ordinary looking people. Plus, the only photos I had of myself were self portraits that would not pass the "skin disclosure" standards here.

[Melancholy]

Mine is a shot of two fishermen fishing for salmon in a local river, a misty night, shot with my M4, 5cm summicron on trix. Not the original one I had for my nick, but there is some melancholian mood in it, at least for me.

[dct]

Most of you will know my avatar, beeing my 1st M mount camera (Konica Hexar RF). I might change it in a few years.
My nick name is a 30 years old monogram. It was introduced once as the standard three character user id when I started my IT career. I still use it today for many purposes.