Avatar Images

[+Simply Paul]

I saw this earlier while looking for ICSTIS's logo, and it got me thinking, where did other people actually find their own logos?

 

Mine's a heavily edited 'BBC3' slug-thing from a BBC web site, inspired by my old icon/profile page image. I know some people use their kids' pictures, scans of caching stamps or scanned caricatures, but 'where did you get yours?' (if it's just a dull photo of you, what were you doing and where at the time?)

[markandlynn]

Came across ours when trying to design a calling card. It was black and white clip art so added the colours.

It represents the three children Krystal, Kelly and Aaron while our caching name "markandlynn" represents the so called adults in the team.

It has since gone on to be our stamp etc.

Our other avatar is a photo of the canal near our first cache hide

Suitable smiley for the angst free thread

[NickPick]

Mine came from the OS website, and I edited it a bit. It's a picture which tells me how many 100km to add to the N and E co-ords of a BNG grid ref to get a 12 fig X-Y grid ref to use on streetmap or my work GIS. Before I found it, I had to keep looking at the corners of an OS map to get the numbers from the sides.

[+The Golem]

What's it got to do with...

 

 

Sorry...

 

Mine is a pic I found while browsing - when we all changed back from Xmas avatars I didn't want to use the same image. (And it looks like me! )

[+Simply Paul]

Having seen your photo on the forum the other day... no, I must resist!

[+gingerbreadmen]

Guess what, as we are the Gingerbreadmen I took a picture of... you guessed it. And no, they don't look like us, they're far more attractive (and taste nicer too).

[+KiwiGary]

Mine is a little Kiwi that I found in a cache in New Zealand.

 

I thought it was cool at the time and I haven't found anything better.

 

The little Kiwi appears with travel bugs from time to time.

 

Here he is with a popular Milton Keynes travel bug.

 

 

See ya...Gary

[+Steel City Seekers]

I spent waaaaaayyyyyy too much time in PowerPoint drawing shapes, adding text, etc. It doesn't look all that great as an avatar and I might have to come up with something else, but we have a larger version in our profile. We have variations for our wooden nickel and our cache log sticker as well as 'official' versions that have not yet been used. I keep them all in a PowerPoint file that can be cut-and-pasted as necessary.

 

I drew everything from scratch. Nothing in terms of pictures, etc. came from the official Pittsburgh Steelers football team except for a few ideas.

[+bargee]

My avatar is the poster for the Ealing film 'The Bargee' starring harry.h.corbett which was based on my life

found on a google quest

very good film by the way

[+Pengy&Tigger]

Made it ourselves, no need for clipart when you can draw one yourself. Quick pencil sketch, converted to Illustrator and there you have it.

 

Pengy

[+The Klever Boys]

I didn't get where I am today by not knowing my avatar comes from a BBC TV program!

[+Jonovich]

I traced mine from a photograph of my summer Cachemobile using Paint Shop Pro then scaled it down.

[+Jonovich]

Mine's a heavily edited 'BBC3' slug-thing from a BBC web site, inspired by my old icon/profile page image.

 

Ahhh.... So that's a light sabre is it? I had wondered, especially as those BBC slugs have no arms/hands with which to hold one.

[+Alibags]

Those BBC things are called 'blobs' It's official, look at the BBC web page. There is all sorts of blob based fun to be had on there!!

 

My flying pig was drawn by cartoonist Hunt Emmerson, and I nabbed it from the Fortean Times website... however, I did ask the editor (who happens to be friend of mine) if it would be okay and he said yes.

[+Pharisee]

Just a boring ol' photo taken during one of my trips to Brugge.

[+The Bongtwashes]

Drawn by our daughter when she was 5. In those days we were into watching Robot Wars, and this was her design for a robot. The robot was going to be called Bongtwash, it's the first time we used 'The Bongtwashes' as a team name.

[+The Bolas Heathens]

Ours is us on our first ever cache find - Big Wood in Staffs

[+Learned Gerbil]

Mine is heavily doctored from a scan of the original but the attribution is -

 

Milne Edwards, H. 1868-1874. Recherches pour servir a l'histoire naturelle des Mammiferes, Paris, Plate 11, fig. 1: Gerbillus unguiculatus, by A. Milne Edwards. Captioned "male, decouvert par M. l'abbe A. David, dans les plaines de Mongolie".

[+currykev]

I'm so jealous ot The Klever Boys' avatar.It's super and great!!

Google image was my hunting ground.I thought a pic of a curry didn't quite work,so was happy with Sylverster and his wonderful son..Junior.

[+HazelS]

I asked someone to get me a pic of a "little Miss" to use, and I think it was Rutson that came up with this one... not sure though, so don't quote me on it...

 

The REAL originaltor will probably come along in a minute and start a nasty thread about me not giving them the credit for my avatar! ;-)

[+The HERB5]

How topical am I....

 

Mine is an AMBIGRAM of my first name.

Anyone who's read the DaVinci Code will know that it's a font that can be read upsidedown.

 

If you stand on your head and read my Avatar it still reads EVAN.

[+Old B]

My surname is Barber.!!!!!!!!!

[+chipstix]

Mine came from a Christmas gif I drew ages ago, once Christmas was over I edited the hat!

[+Jackplug]

Mine is Me sitting on A seat in Derbyshire near the Ladybower Res. it's file name is (on size fits all).

It's the only seat that I have found that makes me look small??.

[+Haggis Hunter]

Mine is a little Kiwi that I found in a cache in New Zealand.

I always thought it was a womble?

 

How topical am I....

 

Mine is an AMBIGRAM of my first name.

Anyone who's read the DaVinci Code will know that it's a font that can be read upsidedown.

 

If you stand on your head and read my Avatar it still reads EVAN.

Was it not Angels & Demons the prequel to the DaVinci Code that the ambigram was the hot topic?

 

My avatar came from here

[+The Flying Boots]

This topic had brought to my attention that we only had a boring old photo as an Avatar image. Have now decided to change it to our calling card photo.

[+Wadders]

Doing some online investigation into my surname (Waddup) and came across my very own coat of arms

[+wizard1974uk]

I requested mine, designed by someone at another forum

[+*mouse*]

Designed this originally as my stamp - nicked the mouse bit from some clip art on the internet and added the text and oval shape in Coral Draw.........

[+davy boy]

Mine came from a pub sign in Spreyton and related to a cache i set and my family name !!!!!!!!

[+Archer4]

Another one "acquired" from the BBC. It's a map of Ambridge showing the only cache in Borsetshire...

[+Gralorn]

I use this photo as we always have the red arrows do a fly past when we find a FTF. 19 flypasts to date.

[alistair_uk]

My original one was a WeeMee generated through Friends Reunited and grabbed from the screen. My new one was taken by me with my phone when visiting a trig point in Edinburgh. I am kind of regretting the new one as people are starting to recognise me.

 

By the way the BBC 3 Blobs are great, my federate is the one with the glasses who “can do terrible dame to you”.

[+Skate and Jane]

As I said in the wrong thread Mine was used in an attempt to get some friendly football rivalry going but everyone on this forum is so polite nobody has bitten

Shame we can't use moving avatars. I have seen some great ones on other forums and nicked a few just incase we can one day

[+Wadders]

As I said in the wrong thread Mine was used in an attempt to get some friendly football rivalry going but everyone on this forum is so polite nobody has bitten

Shame we can't use moving avatars. I have seen some great ones on other forums and nicked a few just incase we can one day

 

Maybe if we wait a couple of weeks, we could have some banter going when or if the Mighty LEEDS make it back to where they belong in the premiership

Come on you whites!!!

[+Skate and Jane]

[+currykev]

And of course we all know that everyone in SW6 supports FFC anyway.As Wadders stated.Come on You Whites!!!..(Coleman's that is)

Edited May 11, 2006 by currykev

[+MartyBartfast]

Picture of Slartibartfast, must have been snaffled from a BBC site somewhere, added GPSr & trekking pole meself.

[+bhodisatva]

My '73 Land Rover Airportable (AKA Polly) flying the Yorkshire Rose flag:D

[+Mr Nibbler]

Mine was nicked from er, found on the Northern Ireland Tourist Board site (I think) to reflect: a) the fact I was born in Norn Iron; intersting locations and; c) outdoors-y things

[+Birdman-of-liskatraz]

Well mine is sort of... St Pirans Cross The Flag of Cornwall and a Cornish Chough (or a cough as I like to call it!) which is on the Cornish Coat of Arms and a play on my caching name.

[+QuirkySmog]

My '73 Land Rover Airportable (AKA Polly) flying the Yorkshire Rose flag:D

 

And it very nice too

 

I asked a (admin)member of our Landrover forum to do a drawing of our cachemobile,Landrover Defender 110,then resized it to suit the forum...

Edited May 11, 2006 by The Great Defenders

[+oldsoldier]

Mines a team breakout picture while playing tournamnet paintball, in April I ithink it was. I'll the farthest on the right.

[+lordelph]

Mine was taken on the Saddleworth Beer Walk, which is a fantastic 10 mile charity walk around Saddleworth, Yorkshire, punctuated by stops at 10 or so pubs.

 

And it's in fancy dress. That's me several years ago as a pirate. Sadly I can't go this year as it clashes with Carry On Camping

 

Highly recommended if you're in the area.

 

I'm surprised the BBC didn't seek my skills for the new Dr Who series though, check out the realism on last year's cyberman costume...

 

[+freespirit1402]

mines to do with my sig line, had an american friend who described me as stitch from the disney film using the words in my sig line and i kinda adopted him for everywhere ever since...plus if you have ever seen the film - how cool is he!

[+The Bongtwashes]

As I said in the wrong thread Mine was used in an attempt to get some friendly football rivalry going but everyone on this forum is so polite nobody has bitten

Shame we can't use moving avatars. I have seen some great ones on other forums and nicked a few just incase we can one day

 

Sorry, no rivalry at all. Congrats to Chelsea on their 3rd title. Only another 15 to go to match The Reds, plus 5 European Championships, plus....plus.....plus....

 

(sorry for going off thread SP)

Edited May 11, 2006 by The Bongtwashes

[adrianjohn]

Mine is simply a pic of my GPSr filched from the Magellan website with a picture of the tools of the (geocaching) trade pasted in the screen.

Occasionally I have used sheep's head,

which I adopted during a time in the forum of some serious trolling, when we were all accused of being sheep.

 

Off topic, but it does not fit in the sig lines topic , at the same time I used the sig line: Two heads are better than one, even if one is a sheeps head!

 

Something a work collegue would say when he needed help to solve a problem.

[+John Stead]

I drive it!

[alistair_uk]

Mine was taken on the Saddleworth Beer Walk, which is a fantastic 10 mile charity walk around Saddleworth, Yorkshire, punctuated by stops at 10 or so pubs.

Now that looks fun....but don’t you normally dress like a pirate?

[Team 'James W']

Mine is a picture of my freelander taken whilst camping at a VERY VERY cold campsite at the back of Llanberis during this year's Llanberis Mountain Film Festival (LLAMF). It's the first time I'd used it in deep snow and was really pleased to make it up the farm track into the hills, and across the camping fields. I added the Groundspeak 'squares' in Photoshop 7.

 

 

Edited May 12, 2006 by Team 'James W'