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Nick C. Sorbin
Staff Writer
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"For every breath, for every day of living, this is my Thanksgiving."
-Don Henley

Two of my loves together. Digital photography and wolves.

ah! Is that two wolves and a camera? winks I just moved all of my photos to CD (it's tornado season), so I'll have to hunt for a pic to post.

Of course. Guess which one is me. winks back.

Well this is me..the same pic that I have on my homepage. :-)

What a sweet pic! The bond shows. I love animals as well.

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This is me. I don't have another one scanned, so it is the same as in my homepage as well.

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HA! your not getting a picture of me! You'll have to go all paparazzi on me to get a photo of me!

I'm officially jealous of aeires :P You wouldn't happen to have a website full of reference photos for those of us who love to paint wolves, would ya? :) Just thought I'd ask. Anyway, here's a bad polaroid of me. (Same one posted in Bryce cuz I still don't have a camera yet, argh.)

Hi Indigo Check out WolfPark.org. They have a lot of links on their site, plus some great photos. They also have a photo of the day (which is as many as a dozen a day if Monty gets some great shots). I also use some of their photos on my site Aeires.com. I only have around a dozen or so photos, but plan on putting up more.

Here's my drivers licence pic and its bad but what the hey. ;)

Here I am without my current beard. No grey in my hair but my beard is mostly white and halfway down my chest. Some say I look like a skinny Santa...

This one is a year or two old..

@jockc, So which head is really yours? (Ducks as a pumpkin goes whizzing by).......lol..

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Hi Jock,

it looks as if we are of nearly the same age :-)
You only have more hair than I have.

Hi all,

there was a spotlight at Renderosity with a photo of mine:

In the meantime the hairlength (and the amount of curls) has decreased. Dramatically.

:rolleyes::sad:
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This should tell you how badly hooked on fractals I am!!

Fractals will always amaze me!

Oh GAWD girl, you got it BAAADD!!! :-)

Here is just a picture from Jos Boogen (aka sofie-filo)

And here is a picture from my girl-friend/partner Marleen. She posted also a few images in the fractal gallery. Have a nice time all.

Just me keeping my sanity :) Thanks for making this a fun thread, I hope it continues. So nice to meet everyone! Have a nice Easter!

Nick

Nick C. Sorbin
Staff Writer
Renderosity Magazine
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"For every breath, for every day of living, this is my Thanksgiving."
-Don Henley

Eh... a couple of years ago, in really big, out of style glasses. *lol* Man I hate getting old. *sighs* ^_~

Happy Easter! A big kiss. Lucia from Italy

and he is araffaell (my dear friend Andrea)

The big one is me. The little one is my granddaughter, Sophia. It's great to see that most of us are humans :^) Later, Keith

Hi all, just a quick pic of us. Nice to have a face to associate with the name. William & Vicky/paragon5

It's a wee bit small and a couple years old (I've since cut most of my hair off), but this is me. So nice to meet you all!

Hi to you all, greetings from Roc Serum from Holland

Great thread, nice to see all of you! Here I am (a bit postworked :-)

....and me, with no postwork, complete with red eye and a fern growing out of my head. *grins*

Ok You guys you asked for it Ron and I when we first met needless to say many changes like more gray hair, a bit heavier due to complete happiness :) Wow If Ron see this I'm a dead duck lol.

Well,HI everyone! Not to bad for my 50s! :)

I have to say... we ARE an eclectic bunch. ^___^ Isnt' that grand?

It sure is grand what a wonderful idea to do, I dunno who started all this but thank you wow what an awesome bunch of wonderful people we have here... Wonderful idea..:)

Hi to all, this it is my picture that this in the gallery of members, my face not had changed too much, I am a little but thin, but I am very happy with my 55 years.

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Me, me, me, me

This be me. My son Victor took this.

Pat

Here's the pic from my homepage here, too. Thanks to all for supplying faces to go with the names.

Ok - Here's one of me, taken a year or so ago. No fish was harmed in the production of this photo ;-)

Wow, it's funny how different we can look from what our nicknames suggest! This is good, sometimes a nick even suggests me a female when the person is a male, and viceversa. :-) Wouldn't it be nice to also know in what corners of the Earth we're dwelling? :-)

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Gun is my real name, funny for American ears, but a fairly common girl's name in Sweden where I live.

Hi everyone, William and I are from Trenton, North Carolina. It's a very small town probably about 70 miles from the Atlantic Ocean, and yes we can go to the beach at anytime! It certainly is great to meet you all! Vicky

My name is Barbara (well, it's Bbara really, but I don't put the accent so non-spanish speakers don't get confused). I'm from Argentina (the shouthest -if there is such word- country in the world). And no, it's not in Brazil ;-) it's a completely different country. lol

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Here's me around the turn of the century - I did get a haircut around 2001 but thankfully it grew back - - most of it... :>) Rick

My, how this thread has grown! Too cool. Well, I'm from Parma, Ohio (just outside of Cleveland). The only thing I don't like about my location is the unpredictable weather :) So great to meet you all! I'm really happy with the way everyone comes together in this forum. You are all the best!
Hey Rick- I once had long hair too (felt I had to grow it out after I left the Navy). Then I realized how much easier it was to keep it real short :)

Have a great weekend, everyone!

Nick

Nick C. Sorbin
Staff Writer
Renderosity Magazine
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"For every breath, for every day of living, this is my Thanksgiving."
-Don Henley

this is me and my babies: my kids and the most wonderful lady in the world, my fiancee Sharon and futhermore the tools on my desk, which i use to make them designs *SMILE* have a nice weekend Harmen

Hi Nick - yep, I suppose I'll never get used to the idea of haircuts - reckon I still feel the need to "let my freak flag fly"! lol. Helps working at a relatively small tech company, too - no white shirts and Dockers ala IBM! The lighting in the group work pic that I cut that one out of was pretty good, so its hard to see the thin hairline - or the gray! Seems like every time I get it cut there's a lot less there and it gets thinner and thinner so I just don't! lol Reckon I'll have a major "Phil Collins" going on when I hit my 50's or so - or else still a "double comb over" to either side! lol I'm not aging gracefully and and will go kicking and screaming into that "good night"! lol I live on a lake just outside Palm Bay, Florida about 20 miles south of Cape Canaveral on the East coast - great for watching all the rockets and shuttles :>( go up. Just had a night launch of an Atlas on a cloudless night this week - LOVE those! I saw Paul's fish picture and just HAD to upload a picture of me with a 9 1/4lb bass that was in Florida Fins and Feathers magazine - MUCH older pic (late 80's), but its a nice fish. Hey, maybe a thread with our best fishing pictures? lol Rick

Wow. I've never caught a 9-plus pound bass - In Michigan, they rarely get that big. My best largemouth is somewhere around 5 pounds. That said, there are still some big fish around these parts - This is a muskie I caught in Lake St. Clair in 1994, within sight of downtown Detroit. 48.5 inches and 25 pounds, and it took about a half hour to bring it in. I kept this one, and it now occupies a place of honor above the fireplace at our cabin in northern Michigan. My wife wouldn't let me put it on the wall at home ;-)

:-( I'm sorry, I can't do anything but feel very sad when I see people still enjoy killing animals for fun. I was hoping you guys actually eat those poor creatures. This isn't meant as an attack or to start a discussion. I just feel very sad and had to share it.

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Hi Barbara - actually, the bass in the picture was let go after the reporter got done with the interview. I do like to eat the smaller, male bass - there's LOTS of those - but the big females I just take their picture then either let them go exactly where I caught them (I've motored 8 miles to release one after a picture) or I bring them home and let them go in the fair sized lake I live on. I have a larger one - my first - "skin" mounted, but the taxidermist gave me the filets from that one. Great tasting fish! I flirted with the idea of becoming a full-time fishing guide at one time but I didn't do it because most of the clients wanted to kill the fish and I only allowed a picture and measurements taken for a "replica mount". I did guarrantee a trophy fish would be caught but that wasn't enough. The reason there aren't many 16lb bass anymore is that people caught them and then took them home for dinner and their traits for large size were gradually taken out of the gene pool. Kinda like if they got rid of everyone over 5 feet tall - we'd be a race of Tatoos! "De plane, Boss, De plane"! :>) I get just as much of a "macho testosterone rush" from carrying around a picture of my fish as I could dragging its carcass to all my friends houses. :>) Rick

Wow! Paul that's a SERIOUS pike you've got there! I'd love to catch one like that! All we have in Fla is chain pickerels that get maybe 2 1/2ft. long. I did snag on to a 6ft plus alligator gar, one time though. Sucker dragged me, the boat AND the anchor 50ft! I was alone, so the fight was really long - good half an hour. Then, when I finally did get him next to the boat he wouldn't fit in my net so I tried to net his head and grab his tail to throw him into the boat. He wasn't having any of that and broke my line, got me wet and scratched the paint, too! This is great! Gonna have to find some of my old fish pix to scan - don't think I could top that pike, though - he's a MONSTER! Hmm, ok - so...ya ever caught a shrimp as big as THESE big ol "J-bo's"? lol (sorry for all these slimy fish, ladies - bear with us, its a "man thing", ya know? lol) Rick

Heres my story about the one that got away..I was fishing in the High Sierras when after a long day with absolutely nothing, I was getting ready to go back to camp, and I got a bite, a good size fish was on my line, so I jerked the line and reeled him in real slow and almost fell over in the river, he fought me all the way to about 10 feet, then I decided to pull him up really hard and land him on the ground so he would be easier to hold with dirt on him, lol I hate that slimy feel, so when I pulled the pole up he came up too, and flew off the line and into a little stream bed behind me :( I tried to grab him with my hands,lol must of been a site, but he got away.

Paul, that is one heckuva nice fish!
I use to go fishing in Canada (on the Ottawa Lake) every summer, when I was a kid. My brother caught a 42 inch Pike. He always got the Pike...Me, I got all the Catfish (although they were 20-25 pound Catfish :) ). An old fishing guide had told a story about the place I was catching all the Catfish. It was named Schoolhouse Bay, and so the story went that there was a little schoolhouse there that caught fire. All the children ran out into the water and were eaten by Catfish. Oh, that guy was full of gruesome stories...

Rick-lol, 'The Mad Shrimper' !

Barbara- I agree with you about killing just for sport. I've always eaten every fish I've kept.

Hey Snow- That had to be a funny sight! Did you happen to know what kind of fish that was that went whizzing by you? :)

Nick C. Sorbin
Staff Writer
Renderosity Magazine
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"For every breath, for every day of living, this is my Thanksgiving."
-Don Henley

It was a Rainbow Trout about 12 to 14 inches in length, not a trophy but wanted to catch him for dinner. I had this trouble all during this camping trip of hardly catching any fish. The last day the hatchery came and dumped several fish at the top of the river. I did catch my limit on our way out to drive back home.. by hand..Shhh!Lol!

Well, Rick, the sad thing is even if they don't actually kill the poor things just to display them, they give them the scare of their lives. I'm not pointing at you, it is our culture. We were raised that way. You actually tell stories about catching animals like they are fun (and I'm sure they were for you or the people that enjoy doing that), and never ever think about the horror that those creatures have to experience. I have to comment it because it REALLY breaks my heart, this is no moral bull***t or something. We could discuss forever if the animals have feelings and things like that. But if the animal fights to get out of the situation when they're trying to catch it, I think it's a pretty good indicator that it doesn't like it, to say the least. If they can't ellaborate about it, I don't care. If it is their instinct, I don't care. You can see with your eyes that it is suffering. There are actually animals that can die because of that scary moment. Their hearts can't cope with the stress. What I'm saying is, because it is common and everybody does it and nobody thinks about it doesn't make it right. There are people that say they love birds, for example, and they have them caged in their homes. Most of the times really small cages. They never think they are harming their loved pets, because everybody has their birds in a cage. Well, I would rather not be loved by someone like that, if that meant I had to live behind bars. Doesn't matter if I have a 2 kilograms brain or one the size of a bean. Just my feelings, no offense intended. Really.

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Hi Barb, That could be a real hot topic for sure. I grew up on the ocean, so fishing was a big part of my life. Here's something interesting that I recently read. A study in a University somewhere up north( closer to Canada), I'm not real sure which one. I'd have to look the article back up. Showed that fish actually do not possess the proper nerve ending to be able to feel pain. They have autonomic responses, but no pain. Not trying to start anything, just thought it was an interesting fact. William

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Hey William Great nugget of information. Here's another overlooked one. Bass have been known to live as long as 30 years. Catching and releasing them makes them a much tougher fish because they maintain their memories of being caught. That's why lunkers are such a tough catch. They don't fall for as much as they did when they were younger. By releasing them, it helps the gene pool become stronger. As far as catching and cooking them, well, that's good eats. Jeff PS. I'm not a fisherman because my brother inherited all those traits. Fishing to me is getting the best piece at the local market. :)

A pic of me at my door. The keyboard to my right suffered "sugar poisoning" when I knocked over a bottle of Gatorade. DON'T DO THAT. They misbehave afterwords....

Lemonade isn't all that good for keyboards either. After it begins to dry, all I could type was aaaaaaaa, 555555555 and 222222222222222222222222222222222. I found that black coffee does little damage in the long run,except for being a pain to clean between the keys, but large amounts of water tend to short out the cordless phone on the desktop. I suggest waiting until liquids dry before dropping the sesame seeds from your bagel all over the keyboard.

just take it apart, let it dry and clean it with 70% medical alcohol [don't drink it please], that works, and if you use a laptop, do the same to all the inside parts like the motherboard, 2.5 inch harddisk, floppy drive and dvd/cd player (which have very itty bitty tiny screws) and also all the connectors, just know absolutely very certain which screw gets in which hole, when ya assemble all together again ... so very easy to do, if your short of cash, just need lots of patience SMILE ... i have cleaned many laptops of the dutch army which were messed up with cola, mud and greasy stuff have a nice day Harmen

I'd never be so short of cash that I can't manage a new keyboard....my life depends on my computer. However, if there is anyone here who cares to spend 99 hours doing what undisclosed designer suggests, I have a multitude of keyboards in my attic with various dried liquids just waiting to be removed. Just give me a holler. :)

Oh! My two cents on this. Don't use canned air to blow crumbs out of the keyboard. They lodge under them and make certain letters impossible to type. Yeah, I live at my keyboard too. LOL

Hahaha...I've never used canned air but I have turned the keyboard upside down and shaken vigorously! ;o)

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I take the keys off and give it a thorough cleaning every now and then.

I haven't fished for 30 years, but I'm thoroughly impressed by your collective catches, Rick & Paul. This was taken a few years ago- me and my baby. My hair has alot of gray in it now, and John doesn't have his beard anymore. I don't have a scanner that works or a digital camera yet, but I'll update when I get one or the other. Hey, nice to see everyone! Linda

Here is mine. Not really actual. Less but longer, and greyer hair meanwhile :-))

KPK

Thats me after "n" hours in front the computer. To my great surprise I succesfully focused both my eyes to the camera:)

I had the need to show off my babies, the two oldest and baby are my sons and the other two is his girlfriends which he a great dad to them too.They are the images behind me that keep me going!!*Leda