If you have a gravatar, how did you choose it?
I cropped mine
from this 2008 wedding picture:
It was a wonderful weekend and the gravatar reminds me of it — and of three of the people I love most in the world. Not a bad choice. 🙂
Is there a story behind your gravatar?
October 21, 2015
My gravatar is a magnifying glass – to symbolise the way I try to look at everything a bit more closely and get past everyday clichés and explanations. Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I don’t. I still don’t understand why the gravatar appears in some people’s comment boxes but not in others.
I don’t understand why either. I think your gravatar is an apt one. Thanks.
my gravatar is zeke.
he was with me for almost 12 years.
he died of cancer.
you would think his laughing picture might make me sad.
but it doesn’t.
as you said about your own… it reminds me of a happy time.
good memories.
i may change it some day. i don’t know. but for now… it’s fine.
when the captain asked me what i wanted to use…
i emailed him back and told him. his reply was …
“as if i even had to ask!”
xo
and p.s
i LOVE that picture of YOU. and kaitlin and torben and andy!
If I didn’t use this gravatar I might use one of Sammy smiling. Even after he’s no longer with us. For my Google account I use one of Sammy and Montana in their Michigan T-shirts, but Sammy is looking very serious and not very happy, and Montana is dark and doesn’t show up as well.
Sammy’s shirt says “Michigan son”, Montana’s “Michigan daughter”.
In my files mine is labelled “cathy 2010” but I have no idea where it is taken other than what is behind me are people’s backs, a strange kind of window/covering/wall. And someone has presented me with a hand made corsage so maybe I’m at an event of some kind.
Whatever, it was, the picture that I used was probably the best of anything I had at the time in files 🙂 or maybe it was a time when I thought it would be a good idea to have “a real me/that era” as my gravatar
On the other hand, it might be time to upgrade my image, I seem to remember it’s difficult to do…and do I have anything I would care to load!
Love your picture Jean, particularly the occasion…
That is the thing about the Net and the modern computers that we can put up almost anything we want, well within reason…using our discretion is a valuable asset in these times.
I agree about discretion, but it’s also having something that represents the “real” us, as in Nick and tammy’s examples. If you wanted something instead of a picture of yourself, an example of your art would represent an important part of yourself.
Mine is my illustration of me and Blue and Ghost and …
well, several of my critters and a paintbrush in my hand.
I don’t like actual pictures of myself because I just don’t feel like I look now.
I’m always startled to see photos of myself.
Yep, I prefer a caricature.
I love that you use a photo that makes you think of a happy memory.
That’s very sweet.
😀
xo
The most important thing is to have a picture or image you feel good about, and one that reflects something important about yourself. Yours does that:
I don’t understand why it doesn’t appear as a gravatar here or on tammy’s site. That’s the question Nick asked, and I’m perplexed too.
I keep changing my gravatar on and off depending on some comment or the other from some friend or family member. The most popular so far has been one where I am shown as a donkey.
I was really disappointed when you took the hind view of the elephant off your header image. It seemed so appropriate to “Wisdom by Hindsight.” Made the term seem a bit more lighthearted.
From a photo from when we wrote our book – it is quite old now.
It’s a nice photo. 🙂