Explain your avatar...

[ebolton]

My avatar is my initials. At the time I joined RFF,I was putting my initials on dozens of drawings and many documents by hand on paper every day at work. At some point, I recreated my paper signature with a mouse and made it my avatar. It's red, because I used it on another site with a white background, and I wanted it to show up OK in both places. I currently use it only here, and may change it soon as I'm a little sick of it now.

[SteveM_NJ]

My avatar is a curving line of some of my rangefinder cameras, (one viewfinder Nikonos) I placed on my home office desk one late night, only light by a small desk lamp (25watt)

not much of a need to see larger, very basic,
not much to describe, very basic.

[seakayaker1]

The avatar is a cropped picture of me from 2005/2006 timeframe. (oh, I may be a bit grayer on top now.)

My daughter was visiting and a friend took the picture of us together.

This way you will know me if I ever run into you out there wandering the streets.

[randolph45]

Originally Posted by 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.

When I first joined RFF this avatar gave me a great feeling.The smile is just says it all.

[Texsport]

My custom 1946 Chevy in LSU purple.


Texsport

[nikon_sam]

<<<This would be the only Avatar I've ever used here in RFF...
It's a shot taken of our two cats when they were young and outside for the very first time...Max is the jumping blur behind Ally...Ally's ears were in a funny position when I snapped the shot and her expression was priceless...
We still have Max...Ally was a crazy cat and would run away for days...once she was gone for a few months then returned...she left again and hasn't been back since...
Today at lunch my daughter informed me that Max is ten years old...time does indeed fly by...

[plummerl]

My great-great-grandfather, a co-founder of Port Townsend, Washington in 1851:

[DtheG]

Me, in a hotel room in Luzern, with X100.
I like to hide behind the camera, the last time someone took my photo and I liked the result was about 55 years ago: me, feeding ducks in park, age about two or three, taken by my father on a Rollei TLR. I look like an old man with a bald head in a big overcoat. If I could find that print I would use it.


self with X100 by DJClark, on Flickr

[sreed2006]

How this avatar got created is complex.

The original photograph was taken on slide film in July 1980. early morning. Austin, Texas, USA, the day of Willy Nelson's Fourth of July Picnic, to which I was headed. The hibiscus was growing outside the house that I had stayed at the night before, and I was running to catch up with my friends, pausing long enough to take a picture of the bush, with this flower at the center of the picture. It's one of my favorite photographs.

Years later, a friend of mine saw the picture and asked if he could use it as the subject for a painting. He did an acrylic painting that came out very well, and I ended up purchasing the painting at a charity auction (he had donated it to the charity).

While it was hanging on the wall, I took a picture of the painting with a DSLR, converted it to greyscale, cropped it, downsized the heck out of it, and there it is as my avatar.

[Dwig]

Mine's of me during one of my earlier investigations into photographic equipment. It was taken in the sping of '53 (I was a little over a year and a half at the time). Dad was taking his usual Easter-time pix. As the years went by my brothers appeared in them one by one.

I still have both the flash (I'm holding only the reflector and probably looking for the rest) and the camera dad used to take the picture (Kodak Vigilante Special, 620 film and the faster f/4.5 lens). Dad tipped over the tripod doing a group photo Xmas '55 breaking the shutter. He gave the non-working camera to me years later, when I was in the 6th grade, to explore. Somewhat to his surprise, I managed to repair the shutter. It still works today nearly 50 years later.

[back alley]

it's my paternal grandfather...i loved that old man...

[fireblade]

...because i have a fireblade and im always happy
love to use a selfie, but interpol would catch on

[Muggins]

Originally Posted by jackbaty

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

Brilliant! Back in about 1990 it could have been, too!

Adrian

[gilpen123]

I love Steve and Apple, I also change my avatar fro time to time.

[Avotius]

My wife is a writer and illustrator. She drew the pig, its supposed to be me.

[Richard G]

I had been using Stanley Kubrick's selfie but wanted something more obscure and authentically me. This is an iPhone shot of my M2 representing my 35 years with my first Leica and first camera of my own as a teenager, coupled with a non-Leica gem in the ZM C Sonnar representing what I've learnt here in moving beyond 'Leica glass'.

[Avotius]

Originally Posted by plummerl

My great-great-grandfather, a co-founder of Port Townsend, Washington in 1851:

My old man grew up in Port Townsend. Waterfront Pizza (Portuguese Delight) forever.

[yanchep_mike]

One of our four cats, i am his slave and he allowed me to take that Picture.

[Bug]

Mine is a picture of my son, playing with an old Ricoh 35. This is one of my first RF picture, I enjoyed playing with the shallow DoF at the time, coming from compact P&S with tiny sensors and pinhole-sized slooow lenses...

My son loves the Bulb mode of this camera, because he can see through the lens. He keeps on asking me to open the film door!

[Dralowid]

Mine is of a lens I sold.

The proceeds have funded my habit of collecting black Leica screw thread conversions.

At the last count I had 19 and the money is all gone.

Fun while it lasted

Michael

[3rdtrick]

My avatar is... Well, I do have an avatar I use on other forums but it was taken with a DSLR and I did not feel right putting it up here. I have had my M9 for quite some time now so I will go through and find something from it to put up.
Pete

[ironhorse]

Taken at the Millbrook Horse Trials a few years ago. This is a three day event that includes dressage, cross country, and stadium jumping. I am a horse owner and former competitor (although not quite at this level)

[Ronald_H]

Mine is an old picture (2002) of Anne Govaert, guitarist in the Dutch band Krezip. Krezip was active from 1998 to 2009 and were the youngest act ever to appear on the famous Pinkpop festival with ages 16-18 at that time (2000). Their first album was deeply brilliant, youthful, punky and candid, despite their age and limitations as musicians. They were a wonderful live act as well. Sadly, after the first success, they were restyled and their music got progressively worse. It became soulless bubblegum pop, something I will never forgive them. Despite this, their farewell concerts were sold out quickly.

I went to their concerts all the time and usually brought a camera along. What's more, concert photography shaped me as a photographer and lead to them using my pictures for artwork, fan magazines etc. Looking back, my avatar isn't really that special now, but it comes from a time when I first used professional gear and film and was awestruck by what I could do with it. What's more, Anne was the first of the band to contact me and she is of course very pretty ;-)

[bjornkeizers]

Mine is a screencap from a recent Family Guy episode. I was watching it when I was lurking on the forum :-)

It does kinda sorta resemble me. I'm a big guy, brown hair, occasionally wear a 5.11 khaki vest... and yeah... I own a DSLR too. I usually use a small version of the image below for other forums.

[Rogier]

Blatant Advertizing off me company logo... One day the bag will be replaced by a camera when I start my cross country tours on a scooter to explore and photograph the US