Avatars

I'm starting this thread as a place where we can talk about the interesting stories behind our avatars how we created them and why we chose them. Mine dates from about a year ago. It was actually taken as an "experimental" picture, it was not originally intended to amount to anything, but when I saw it I really liked it. The picture has since gone on to be my author picture and my avatar on several web sites. Depending on how I view things it is either my favorite or second favorite picture. I think every picture has a story behind it and those stories can be quite interesting.

Mine is one of many glamour shots that were taken for my book.

The pointy ears are about the same, Joelle.


(You sure you're a grandmother?)

Time for a change, this is my close buddy and confidant Elfish Presley
I believe we all have different facets to our personalities including the various masks we wear: one for work, one for friends etc, I simply put clothes on mine. When I'm there, they're not! When they're there, I'm not! Why is it acceptable for an 'actor' to immerse him or hers-elf into a character and not a not so ordinary member of the public? Mind you, whoever I am portraying at any given time, I am always the Puppetmaster

Wella blessa ma soul a-wassa wrong with me
We're here on The Forum for all to see
Avatars are groovy, here's one of mine
Elfish Presley why he's so fine

Uh huh uh, uh I'm all shook up!

For the technirati, Elfish is a Driad, albeit a darn big one, he comes from a big tree and was the only Driad or hu-man bean, who never made it into Stonehenge some years back when the Druids of England were actually allowed to celebrate the summer solstice congregating inside the stones, maybe I'll put the full story up sometime, it's a doozy of a story!

(for the non-technirati a Driad is a tree spirit and as my last name on my official alien registration card from the US Government means tree in German, Elfish is sooooo appropriate!)

oh and if you care to http://fly.to/rainbow689 you can see some moving pictures of some more of my close buddies and confidants, prepare to be amazed! Enjoy!

Mine was chosen so as not to scare to many people with my real face

Found you in the gallery. You look pretty normal to me:



http://publishedauthors.org/gallery/Personal-album-of-thehairymob/Billy-Young-pic_251.htm

Not a bit scary! Well, not a lot scary.

Forest Elf wrote:

lin wrote:

(You sure you're a grandmother?)

Thank you!
Yes. Very sure.
Here they are.
Joey is holding his baby brother, Josh.

What a beautiful photograph! Joey looks so proud to be holding his wee brother.

That was an old phot, now a days I've a little less hair on top

thehairymob wrote:

That was an old phot, now a days I've a little less hair on top

Oh shame, I've not got less hair up top, I've got a crop circle up top, I even heard a rumour that Reg Presley of The Troggs wanted to investigate it, now there's one for the illuminati of the forum!

Everybody singalongarainbow

Doom Doom Doom Doom Doom doom doom.....Wild thang, you make my heart sing!!!!!!

Shelagh wrote:

Found you in the gallery. You look pretty normal to me:



http://publishedauthors.org/gallery/Personal-album-of-thehairymob/Billy-Young-pic_251.htm

Not a bit scary! Well, not a lot scary.

Gonna have to call you Shelagh Holmes now, it's elementary my dear forumers! or is it forumnites?

My dear Rick, you mean only the inner circle know about the mystery of Wiltshire's circlemakers? Dastardly chaps these nightshift works who are always going round in circles. They'll come to no good, mark my words.

Shelagh wrote:

My dear Rick, you mean only the inner circle know about the mystery of Wiltshire's circlemakers? Dastardly chaps these nightshift works who are always going round in circles. They'll come to no good, mark my words.

Apparently so but don't tell Reg Presley, he's spent most his royalties investigating them! What a spiffing spoof and you can call me Watson!!!!

My current one is a copy of a print called "The Guardian" by my favorite artist Bev Doolittle:


I also use a picture of me taken at my first book signing:


Sometimes I use a picture of me taken on my first HALO parachute jump:


I've also used the picture from my book jackets:


And once in awhile I throw in Beetle Baily:


What can I say, I get bored easily!

Do you think Elvish Presley knows Dwarf Vader and Fairy Springer?

lin wrote:

Do you think Elvish Presley knows Dwarf Vader and Fairy Springer?

Great pun. Hallarious!

lin wrote:

Do you think Elvish Presley knows Dwarf Vader and Fairy Springer?

They ring a bell but Elfish does know

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Daft Ada - May The Source Be With You Lin Fader

I just love all the pictures you have all shared!!!!!!

Don, I have seen you somewhere before in the cowboy hat picture. The minute I saw it I thought, hmmmm I know that guy! LOL Then I saw the other picture and didn't recognize you. *grin* I am in Illinois too.

Hairymob (Billy?) I like your pic.

JoElle, I just LOVE the pics of the wee ones.

I am still trying to figure out how to get the image into the messages. LOL But then, I don't want to scare anyone either so maybe better that I don't know. *grin*

Sue, on the 'tools' bar above the reply box there is a yellow square with mountains or something along that line in it. If you hover your cursor over it, it will do a pop up box that says "Inset Image". If you have a URL for the picture, you will enter it in the box. Or you can use the service, where you upload an image, and it will then have a URL to insert here.

ahhhh ok, Zada, much like the msn groups. Thank you!!!!! Now to find something to upload *grin*

I used this post to try and get a photo to this page using the instructions Zada had given to Sue. It worked!


This is a picture of me pointing to a large shell hole in my Beirut office. The photo was taken by a UK reporter and it was used in his article, "First American Back."

It would seem that the members here prefer to see photos of members used as avatars and feel better able to build up a rapport with someone they can visualise.

There is no ruling about avatars, but it would be appreciated if members would be good enough and thoughtful enough to upload a photo avatar.

Thank you.

~Shelagh

As you wish!

Pooof! There is the real JoElle.

Not really much difference is there?

I like this one better! Abe will be pleased!