Stuff I've Held Photo Gallery by Christopher Wheeler at pbase.com

Stuff I've Held

Stuff I've held over the years; the first of these was taken in 1985.

Updated 29 April 2012.

Baby alligator	Home intruder	Zipper spider trapped in a glass	Nazar Tree (Cappadocia, Turkey)	First chess clock	Sunflower
Diet Pepsi pop-top (May 2007)	Coke can (2012)	Knocker State Historical Museum, Red Square, Moscow	Forbidden City wall decoration (2009)	Young blue jay (c. 1987)	Cardinal nest
Old Monk rum	Parrot	Toad	Bucket O Chicken	An Angkor Watt statue	Brooklyn Bridge
Largemouth bass	Film for a trip overseas	Watercolor paints	A wire airplane I made	Tiger fish	Voyage of the Beagle -- a favorite
Hotel room No Smoking ashtray (Istanbul)	A plaque commemorating my great great great great grandfather, Col. Wm. Baylor	Grandfather Wheeler's Yashica Mat	First fly rod	Car keys with bird caller	Grandfather Wheeler's chess set
Hillsdale report card	My hand in a car mirror	Woodchuck	College-era notes to self	Silver cup comemmorating my birth	Tamarind tree
One of those plates that you make as a kid	Apricots	Old fraternity house prior to demolition	Some sort of delicious-looking food (Beijing)	Tanzania biscuit	Wayward chimney swift
Indian padlock	Law school books for one semester	Tiger claw marks	Tackle box	National Center for the Performing Arts, China	Cow skull
Barn swallow egg	Drink on the rim of Mt. Batur, Bali	Frosted fence	Two grand	My wife's PhD.	Softball
Drawing of ground floor of imaginary house	Coral Fossil, Stone Forest, Kunming	Largemouth bass	I can't for the life of me remember what this is.	Basket of Easter eggs	Decorated books from Jamia Masjid, Srinagar
Homegrown tomato	A favorite childhood toy	Station wagon. Note the stickers.	Day lily	Frog fetish fragment found by my brother	Decaying carp following spring floods
Visiting duck	Aggressive smallmouth bass	A mid-1980s sunset	Home-grown strawberry	Weird Lava	Masjid decorations, Srinagar, India
old German telescope	Tulip tree blossom	My volleyball	Blue gill	Snapping turtle	Chess engraving at Angkor Watt
Circus wagon wheel	Another young blue jay	Frog in muck	Phallic Monkey Statue, Monkey Forest, Ubud, Bali	Barn swallow	Ravina, while riding an elephant in northern Thailand
Script painted on wall in Mulbek Chambha, India	Tibetan Coke Can	Croppie	My first bowling ball	Early (1979) tennis racquet	Diseased corn
Inlaid marble backgammon board	Salmon pink birdeater spider	Tiger Trout	Seminyak sand, Bali	Grandfather Scott's compass	Ravina's clothes
My softball glove	Shakira Paddle, Sringar	A ubiquitous flower in Bali	Mushroom	Dom Perignon	Bird at Jurong Bird Park, Singapore
Cactus	Collection of local stones, Capadoccia, Turkey	First wire airplane I made	Cultural revolution-era stamp replicates	Undergraduate diploma	Train
Books finished during the Summer of 1985	Handgun at an outdoor show	Bowl of Marbles Stone Forest, China	Fertility statue, Ubud, Bali	Dog victim	Escaping nightcrawler
Thermometer reading on a very cold day in January 1989 (86F)	Tiger footprint	Film for a trip to India	Current softball glove	Orangutan print	Books not finished during the Summer of 1985
Reflection	Still another blue jay	Gettysburg cannon	Turtle	Four leaf clover	Jamia Masjid pillar, Srinagar
Replica of tobacco tin used by 18th century French fur trappers in North America	Early year corvette	Nothing. Shelbyville, Indiana (c. 1985)	Morocco travel items	World's largest pecan on display in San Antonio, Texas	Column of Tears, Basilica Cistern, Istanbul
Wire helicopter I made	First Honda I ever bought	Opposum	Toad in hand. Worth two in bush!	Home-grown cherries	Fish head from a 4 lb. largemouth bass
Figure in Grand Palace, Bangkok	Lots o' Rupees	Wedding ring	Beehive	Dragon statuary, Bali	Pumpkinseed
Hillsdale report card	Imperial Garden pavement in the Forbidden City	Hong Kong Ocean Park Ferris Wheel	Students essays to grade. 1986, Purdue University.	Petrified wood	Thistle
One of the first contact sheets I ever made	An old road sign	I wouldn't buy another one of these	Small croppie	Home-grown plum	Inverted sunset. Shelbyville, Indiana (c. 1986)
Welch's grape juice. A former favorite.	Second chess clock	My hand at White Sands, NM	Indian inlaid marblework	Bowling awards	Cherry Jolly Ranchers (yum!)
Jar of stones I collected during an around-the-country drive in 1988	Portrait of me done by Jane Doud, of Milwaukee, in 1965	Column at National Independence Monument, Kuala Lumpur	Bottle rockets	Large Moth	Thermometer reading on a very cold day in January 1989 (-22F)
Cherries	Landour rock painting (Landour, India)	First digital camera	Butterfly	Current basketball	Young starling
Catfish	Wizard of Id books -- got me started on cartooning	Whiffleball.	Unidentified fish	A favorite summer toy	Door, Blue Mosque, Istanbul
Odd Indian coins	Granny smith apple -- a favorite variety	Red Balinese flower	Lottery winner. $20!	Mohammad Geneological Chart	Paint brushes
Cardinal egg	Squirrel	Walleye	Berries	A favorite album	Door knocker, Beijing
Exhibit at Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame (c. 1988)	Silver salmon	Donations box at a Srinagar masjid	Nathan's Hot Dog	Rahil's Stroller	McPlasticHamburger
Bark of the ___ tree (Himachal Pradesh)	Wild flowers (Dharamsala)	500 Ruble Note	Wedding Bridge, Moscow	A portion of the Taj Mahal (2007)	Bull statue at Five Rathas, Mammallapuram, India (2008)
Fistful of 1000 Rupee notes (2008)	Three-week-old sea turtle	Portion of a temple behind Anjanas Penance, Mammallapuram, India (2008)	Dragon fruit (2008)	Necklace orchid on Mt. Kinabalu, Borneo	My former boss makes the front page of the Amritsar newspaper (2008)
Jain Bird Hospital collection box (2008)	Ahmedabad Gandhi Mosaic	First decent cell phone	Second first digital camera	Rahil's finger puppet	Roadside rock carvings (Shey, Ladakh, India)
Doctor's Sign, New Delhi	Sign to Gandhi's Ahmedabad home	Pangong Tso Sia (rose) blossom	Inlay, Jaipur Amber Fort	Tasty welcome drink, Komaneka Resort, Ubud, Bali	Steps at Sarnath, where the Buddha gave his first sermon.
Road Sign hole	An Old Currency Exchange Sign from Old Delhi.	Hippo trash can head, New Delhi zoo	New Delhi autorickshaw meter	Cinnamon tree	Salt from the 10,000+ sq. mile Rann of Kutch
Easter eggs (2009)	Balsa glider	Dinosaur tracks Holyoke, Massachusetts	Gus, the Central Park polar bear (2009)	Chicken cage	Jellyfish exhibit at the Coney Island Aquarium
Large chess set, Interlaken, Switzerland	Mt. Pilatus (Switzerland) cogwheel train window handle	Macau drug store front window	"Non-Violence" knotted gun sculpture at the United Nation	Old bathysphere	Pinhead orchid
Rahil with poison ivy	Rahil's third birthday cake	Portion of North Gate, Sanchi Stupa (India)	Barracuda from Kochi fish market	Ceramic Dragon at Temple of Heaven, Beijing	Christmas decoration made by Rahil
Coconuts	Coca Cola, Beijing	Many small bags of cotton candy	The Great Wall!	Image on Kochi fishing boat, Kerala, India	Kunming, China arcade game
Large laughing Buddha	Stone Forest, Kunming, China	A tiny abacus	Beijing traffic mirror	Admission tickets to Yong He Gong Temple, Beijing	Fresh coconut
Goan autorickshaw	Golden bamboo	Result of Rahil's (who is three) first "real" chess game	Peacock gate, Jaipur City Palace	Texas Hold 'Em 2 Blackberry World Series Champion. Too easy.	Elephant chow
100 RMB	My iMac -- at last!	Unidentified stone-embedded plank found outside homes in Capadoccia, Turkey	Windows at a Srinagar Masjid	Donkey	Gulbaden Apple Juice
Ice Ball, Chang La Pass, Ladakh (17,586' ASL)	Kitten	Himalayan steamroller	Pangong Tso water	Yak head	What kind of tree is this? It was growing in Highland Park, NJ
Bird of Paradise	Tea leaves	Three-year-old sea turtle.	Nehru Park bridge	Sour tangerine	Brass pegs at New Delhi's National Science Centre
My very own kaffir lime tree!	Rahil's first tennis shoe	Wet kite (Ahmedabad, 14 January 2011)	An old Chevy	Cotton Candy	Hong Kong parking meter
New TV	Rahil's old toys	Door at Tikse Monastery, Ladakh, India	Godfather beer	Indus River sand, Ladakh, India	Stray myna
Westminster Abbey gargoyle	London Eye	Iguanadon	Stuffed badger	Iron pyrite	Gneiss from Greenland -- 3,600,000,000 years old
Blenheim Palace train	Horseshoe	Four young frogs	Isle O' Dreams plaque	Chipmunk	Front door to the Three Lakes cottage
"Guest" embroidery at the Three Lakes cottage	Juice glass that brings back a lot of childhood memories	Largemouth bass from Plantinground Lake	T-Rex model at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford	Insect display at Kuala Lumpur Butterfly Park	Conical cotton candy
Ahilya Fort mailbox, Maheshwar, India	Vanilla pods	Inscribed copy of Rose Wilder Lane's "The Discovery of Freedom"	Balinese puppets	Velociraptor model	Jaipur City Palace door
Pigeons at Gateway of India, Bombay	Thing Rahil collected at Humayan's Tomb on Christmas Day, 2011	Hadrosaur egg	Bangkok public phone	Vanilla	Rahil
Inscription at National Independence Monument, Kuala Lumpur	Rahil's Kindergarten art project	Fire bucket	My trusty Nikon FA	Bougainvillea	Pataudi Palace dollhouse
Lodi Garden greenhouse Ford Foundation plaque, New Delhi	Map of Corbett Natl Park	Breath freshener, Uttar Pradesh, India	Sunbeam Rapier

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Rob Misanchuk	PM reply	31-Jan-2012 02:31
Excellent gallery. Cool idea. V

Dek Grant	PM reply	11-Jun-2011 17:46
great gallery - great sense of humor throughout !.

jCross	PM reply	13-Feb-2011 12:20
This is very cool.

katjas	PM reply	13-Feb-2011 11:36
great idea and very nice images! BV

Eldar Kadymov	PM reply	08-Jun-2010 18:45
Nicht sicher, wenn ich eine Absicht dieser Sammlung verstehe, aber es ist bestimmt Wert der Wahlstimme, V

Walter O. Koenig	PM reply	03-Apr-2010 03:07
Great theme and a fascinating collection with much variety. Bravo! "V"

Rick Kobylinski	PM reply	16-Feb-2009 17:02
Love the theme of this gallery. Good stuff.

Mead Korwin		31-Jan-2009 05:46
Nice narrative, topical, engaging and personal. I'll check back for more of the story.

Guest		31-Dec-2008 20:46
Great theme for a series of photos. The unidentified fish is a freshwater drum (Aplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 1819)

Peter Zetner	PM reply	31-Dec-2008 04:46
Great concept! V.

Arnulf M. Elvevold	PM reply	11-Sep-2006 18:23
Intriguing theme, and there's no end to it as long as you can hold your camera. Great concept very well and consequently carried out.

Guest		08-Sep-2006 13:23
very creative, thank you

Eric Delmar	PM reply	07-Sep-2006 21:54
A very enjoyable gallery. I was never sure what would be next. Well worth a vote. Thanks.

Fred Relaix	PM reply	07-Sep-2006 16:41
Great gallery, fresh and funny! A big V...

Richard Calmes	PM reply	04-Sep-2006 19:53
Creative and very interesting! Hope you wash your hands before eating! V

Niki Conolly	PM reply	03-Sep-2006 13:58
It seems so random, yet tells a very real story! v

T.DEE	PM reply	02-Sep-2006 22:12
Love the concept. I'm wondering about the deeper implications, or maybe I'm just thinking too much. Great stuff.

Nigwel	PM reply	02-Sep-2006 21:53
Interesting Galleries and Photos... http://www.pbase.com/nigwel http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nigel.ritchie

Christopher Wheeler	PM reply	18-Aug-2006 13:33
Thanks! Is it too late to start? The earliest of these dates back to about 1985.

jCross	PM reply	18-Aug-2006 13:12
This is a very cool idea. Wish I would have thought about it 40 years ago!

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