Icon meme

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From kip_w

Look at your LJ userpics

If you have fewer than 50 icons, pick every fifth one.
If you have between fifty and seventy-five icons, pick every seventh one.
If you have over seventy-five icons, pick every tenth one.
If you have fewer than ten, pick all of 'em.

List them on your LJ, and tell everyone exactly why you have it, why it's interesting to you, and what significance it has.




My default icon, a photo of a pansy from the first few months I had the camera. I picked it as an icon because it's vaguely face-like and I liked the photo. The real thing was purpler; the camera has trouble with purple shades.

Image of a solar active region (number 10720, one of the bigger ones of the declining phase of this solar cycle, which produced an impressive flare when it was on disk a month or two after I got my LJ account) from an MDI continuum image. (ETA: For non-solar-astronomers, that's a big sunspot.) Used for science- and work-related posts.

Books; a photo of two shelves of my SFF collection, from Donaldson to Fforde.

Night-flowering cactus. Last June I got up very early one morning to photograph this, just down the street from work. At the time I was writing an obituary for a former colleague, and though the flower itself was a happy thing it got associated in my mind with sadness. I use it for condolence comments and memorial posts, mostly.

A view near Cape Point, from an old photo I scanned last year; one of my favourites from that long-ago trip. Used for posts about travel to exotic locations.

Another flower, of no particular significance except that it's pretty; used occasionally for cheerful posts and comments.