+One of the Texas Vikings Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 One of my daughters came up with the name and I designed and did the avatar. I have produced stickers using it and we put them on logs with the date, etc. saves time and space. Quote Link to comment
+Ed Rad Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 (edited) My avatar was created while sketching on a piece of paper while I was watching T.V. I wanted something that would be simple to re-create but yet resembled me and playing on my caching name. The origional has a propeller beanine but I added the Sox hat when baseball season started and it has stuck ever since. My regular avatar: Edited July 18, 2005 by Special Ed Quote Link to comment
+foxfire949 Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 I'm pretty much just a lurker, but I'll add mine anyway the Azure fire tower near St. Regis Falls, NY A nice steep, but short climb up a very pretty mountain. (No caches though...) Quote Link to comment
+wimseyguy Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 Someone sent me a collection of silly cat pics, including this one. My username is a derivation of one of our four cats, who loves to get into boxes, and my family name is Busch. See Jamie-you'r not alone. It just made sense. (at least to me..... ) It's been my avatar since I joined this forum, I guess I'm too lazy to change it. (I think I did use another pic for a few days when the Mars Explorer mission landed though, since I have one from that saved in my profile.) Quote Link to comment
+Greymane Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 My avatar is the Mighty Ike (USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, CVN-69). It was my first ship in the Navy. I spent just over five years on this moving city. Four acres of sovereign U.S. territory anywhere you want it in the world! Quote Link to comment
+beopots Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 (edited) I used this graffiti creator site (scroll down) then I moved it to PS to sharpen it a little. Then threw it on here. That is a cool virtual grafitti simulator, everyone should try it. BEO Edited July 18, 2005 by beopots Quote Link to comment
+Cryptid Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 I photoshopped this image , I have two Landcruisers and have had five. Gotta love em, they'll take you anywhere, and out again. Quote Link to comment
+Semper Questio Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 We cache as a fmily under my GC handle and collectively log as Team Semper Questio, hence the TSQ. I just found an Image of Texas, ripped the background, did a mod on the colors, added the Celtic text (due to my interest in our Celtic heritage and Celtic history in general) and the red star at the approximate area where we live. We've adopted this as our caching logo. Quote Link to comment
+BillsBayou Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 Swamp Thing issue 9 cover Lowrance iFinder Hunt photo Photoshoped them together I knew I wanted Swamp Thing. The trick was going over all my covers to find the one that would fit right. I had to do some work around the character's head. The title of the magazine ran by his head. I did some image cloning to replace the title with trees. I'm pretty happy with how it came out. Quote Link to comment
+reveritt Posted July 18, 2005 Author Share Posted July 18, 2005 ... Four acres of sovereign U.S. territory anywhere you want it in the world! Except, possibly, the middle of the Gobi Desert. Quote Link to comment
+Yamahammer Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 Starbrand did mine's. Thanks SB!!! Quote Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 ... Four acres of sovereign U.S. territory anywhere you want it in the world! Except, possibly, the middle of the Gobi Desert. Well, I did see a ship in the Gobi Desert, wait that was that Close Encounters movie. Nevermind Quote Link to comment
Team GeoSpeedy Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 We wanted something that featured the globe, and had a weathered, ancient feel... like it had endured. And I like shadow... Larger image here?. -p Quote Link to comment
sporkboy Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 My avatar is actually a version of the image that I use for my micro signature item. I figure, I was here so why not have my avatar say so. Quote Link to comment
Yankees Win! Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 I like avatars that aren't a distraction and/or don't detract from what someone has to say. So I selected this one. Quote Link to comment
+luvhockey Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 Can you guess? My obsession. Went to a game with the wedding party after getting married. Even made CNN, ESPN and lots of local stations. Quote Link to comment
+reveritt Posted July 18, 2005 Author Share Posted July 18, 2005 ... Four acres of sovereign U.S. territory anywhere you want it in the world! Except, possibly, the middle of the Gobi Desert. Well, I did see a ship in the Gobi Desert, wait that was that Close Encounters movie. Nevermind BlueDeuce, You change your avatar more often than some folks change their underwear (never mind who). What's this one? Quote Link to comment
+Corp Of Discovery Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 The Silver Surfer is my favorite comic book character. Yes, I know it doesn't have much to do with my caching name, but he explores the vastness of the universe in much the same way as Louis & Clark explored the vastness of our country. Caching allows me to do the same thing in my own limited way. The name is a whole other story..... Quote Link to comment
+AuntieWeasel Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 It's a little known fact about my avatar, but if you look at it long enough, you can actually see a weasel. It helps if you cover one eye. This poor mustelid has been through Photoshop so many times, I have no idea what her origins are. Almost certainly a photograph that I STOLE off somebody. I keep a folder of weaselpics that I refresh periodically from images.google.com. For inspiration. I saw a dusty, balding weasel taxidermy in a market once. She looked absolutely *furious* at being stuffed and mounted. One of my life's regrets is not buying it. I actually went back later, but it was gone. Somehow, the overPhotoshopped weasel made me think of it. Quote Link to comment
Apollo Bob Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 Mine is an actual picture of Apollo Bob, an orangutan, found via Google. I have no idea how he got the name, but I just like the way it sounds. First heard about him in a book of travel stories - he had a reputation for being aggressive and boisterous. Doesn't match my personality, but I still like the name. Quote Link to comment
+sarhound Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 Cobbled this one from some clip art I had; the hounds are usually arguing with each other over who gets the stuffed toy, but one of them likes to degut the toys-- hence, the look of abject terror in the bear's eyes. (Much easier to see in the original artwork.) Quote Link to comment
+Clan X-Man Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 I photochopped ours together. Been an X-Men fan since I was a kid and have all these different X-shirts with the symbol on them so I kinda have my own team uniform. X Quote Link to comment
+vree Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 i took a goalie clip art pic and gimped the colors to match my team's colors and added the geocaching public domain logo on the jersey and slapped that puppy on the classic geocaching four color squares. if i had waited a year to sign up, my geocaching name would have been goaliegrl29, but i hadn't really started using that name much. Quote Link to comment
Mr. TSP Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 My main hobbies are amateur astronomy and amateur radio. Geocaching is just a side job! My avatar is inspired from a T-shirt I saw with a picture of the Milky Way galaxy on the front with the "You are here" locator. I also saw another variation of this with "You are here" on one side of the Milky Way and "The restrooms are here" on the other side so this one is just another vairation on that but with a caching theme. The photo is of the Andromeda Galaxy, M31 that a friend of mine took and I photoshopped it to add text. Oh well, I kinda like it. Quote Link to comment
+Byron & Anne Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 (edited) Back when Geocahing was about a year old I carved a piece of wood into the shape of a stump. Many caches were found in or aound stumps. I added a pin back and left it in a cache. The next finder made nice comments about it. So I carved a few more, then somebody suggested leaving something to indicate who made it. I then started leaving a business card proclaiming the finder had just found a "Byron's Famous Stump Pin". I've become known in the local area as the stump pin guy. Therefore it only seemed fitting that my avatar is a picture of a "Byron's Famous Stump Pin" By the way. Byron is also my real name as is Anne is the real name of the other half of our geocaching team. Edited to add: At a recent event I did a bit of a demonstartion and showed some ideas for signature item pins. If you're interested in some ideas you're welcome to visit the web site I created for that purpose. http://home.earthlink.net/~geocachepin/ Edited July 22, 2005 by Byron & Anne Quote Link to comment
knowschad Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 My dog wearing my glasses. Cut glasses from a photo of myself, pasted them onto the dog using Paintshop Pro. Quote Link to comment
+K0BKL Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 Mine is my webcam picture Quote Link to comment
+Cherokeecacher Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 Short and boring explanation. Geoname- Cherokeecacher The Avatar says the rest. Quote Link to comment
Jeremy Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 At a recent event I did a bit of a demonstartion and showed some ideas for signature item pins. If you're interested in some ideas you're welcome to visit the web site I created for that purpose. http://home.earthlink.net/~geocachepin/ Those are amazingly cool pins. Quote Link to comment
+5 Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 My avatar is the Mighty Ike (USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, CVN-69). It was my first ship in the Navy. I spent just over five years on this moving city. Four acres of sovereign U.S. territory anywhere you want it in the world! Interesting, when I first arrived on my ship, it was escorting the Ike. The Mighty Mississippi CGN-40. As for my avatar, just found it somewhere... Quote Link to comment
+pdxmarathonman Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 Found it on the internet somewhere. Seemed appropriate Quote Link to comment
+JanniCash Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 Oh well, this is complicated. Let me start with "the one with the attitude on the left is Slon". I am for about 11 years a contributor and for 6 years a CORE developer of the PostgreSQL open source database project. The mascot of PostgreSQL is the elephant ... I think it is because Marc Fournier likes elephants. About two years ago I started a new project related to PostgreSQL. A single master to multiple slave replication system called Slony. At that time I was a little fed up with cute looking mascots. This all is serious software and our mascots look like toys. Of course does a PostgreSQL related project need an elephant, but I wanted one that looked serious. So I grabbed a pencil and made my own. Slon is the Russian word for elephant. Slony is plural, elephants (replication means multiple databases, so plural). Why Russian? No, I am not Russian, I am a German guy, dwelling in Pennsylvania, married to a Russian woman. The reason is that some of the algorithms, used in the Slony system, were inspired by prior work, done by Vadim Mikheev. Vadim was a PG CORE member who left the project not long ago for personal reasons. Jan Quote Link to comment
+Thrak Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 Saw it on the Internet shortly after Schwarzenegger was elected. I live in CA so when I wanted an avatar in a hurry I did a quick Google search for it. If I had done the artwork myself I'd be tempted to turn it into a Geocoin as a signature item. Since I didn't do the work it seems to me it wouldn't be a good idea to appropriate it for that purpose. Quote Link to comment
+OHMIKY Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 I wanted something that was easy to see in 80x80 and represented some aspects of my personality. The artwork is by Posada Quote Link to comment
+LandRover Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 I try to change mine monthly but its alway a picture of my Landrover at or near a cache with a really awsome view, can I still use awsome? Quote Link to comment
+KC0GRN Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 (edited) one of my many hobbies is in 3D modelling and rendering (jack of all trades, master of none) and I happen to be a fan of LOTR (actually anything tolkien wrote seems good). So I was inspired by the filmography to make a rendering of the one ring. So in all honesty, my avatar is 100% copyright free, not a framegrab or anything (unless they can copyright the idea of an image of a ring in fire...) Anyways, it's still been one of my best pieces of work, and has kinda stuck with me as my signature avatar. (not to mention orange is my favorite color, and orange and black seems to be the best combo, and I think the image blends the two pretty well) Edited August 18, 2005 by KC0GRN Quote Link to comment
+BilboB Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 I dont think I need to explain a thing. Quote Link to comment
+roygpa Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 (edited) My wife and daughter bought me a little Hiker Marshmallow Christmas Ornament and made a little GPS and Fanny Back out of Femo Dough. There you have it. RoyGPA Edited August 18, 2005 by roygpa Quote Link to comment
+Pablo Mac Posted August 19, 2005 Share Posted August 19, 2005 I have no idea where mine came from. It just hogged itself right in there. Quote Link to comment
+VegasCacheHounds Posted August 19, 2005 Share Posted August 19, 2005 I didn't create my avatar, but another member of the VegasCacheHounds did take the picture, and it is of me For the record, the pic is me rappelling at Red Rock Canyon in Nevada. Quote Link to comment
fallout4x4 Posted August 19, 2005 Share Posted August 19, 2005 My avatar is an actual picture of an atomic bomb mushroom cloud. taken in 1953 it was a 61 kiloton bomb in operation upshot/knothole. Quote Link to comment
+BadAndy Posted August 19, 2005 Share Posted August 19, 2005 I snagged mine of the net. I made several attempts at creating an original design, but I really really suck at it. I also begged in the avatar creation request thread a few times, but didn't get any takers. I'm pretty much resigned to the fact that mine sucks. Quote Link to comment
+reveritt Posted August 19, 2005 Author Share Posted August 19, 2005 ... I'm pretty much resigned to the fact that mine sucks. No, it doesn't. Quote Link to comment
+CurmudgeonlyGal Posted August 19, 2005 Share Posted August 19, 2005 I quite like BadAndy's avatar! And yes. Yes, I did do the artwork for my avatar myself. Or maybe... my parents did! Alternately, when in a more sedate(ed?) mood, my avatar is the painting of Psyche Opening the Golden Box by John William Waterhouse. Quote Link to comment
+deimos444 Posted August 19, 2005 Share Posted August 19, 2005 I'm pretty much resigned to the fact that mine sucks. Looks pretty good to me. Be proud, Andy! Quote Link to comment
+Langner91 Posted August 19, 2005 Share Posted August 19, 2005 Alternately, when in a more sedate(ed?) mood, my avatar is the painting of Psyche Opening the Golden Box by John William Waterhouse. Ooooh, I like that! Quote Link to comment
+WhatsRNutts Posted August 19, 2005 Share Posted August 19, 2005 (edited) mine is just me. don't really have a theme yet. this picture was take at the river in Little Rock Arkansas near the USS Razorback. Edited August 19, 2005 by wreckelite Quote Link to comment
+reveritt Posted August 19, 2005 Author Share Posted August 19, 2005 ...Alternately, when in a more sedate(ed?) mood, my avatar is the painting of Psyche Opening the Golden Box by John William Waterhouse. Did she trade up? Quote Link to comment
+sbell111 Posted August 19, 2005 Share Posted August 19, 2005 I also like BadAndy's avatar. I think mine was done by the lowest bidder. Quote Link to comment
+Rubiconlwb Posted August 19, 2005 Share Posted August 19, 2005 I have been doing pen & ink sketches for years. I took one of my favorites, scanned it, reduced it and created my avatar. The original is called 'Faithful' which is exactly what retrievers are. The detail was lost in the reduction but I like it just the same. The original is hangin on my bedroom wall. Quote Link to comment
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