The picture is quite old, at least 10 years. I made it while goofing around with PhotoBooth on the iMac. Sometimes you get lucky. My avatar is about half that old, and somewhat more deliberately made, also using PhotoBooth. I suppose I should update them both sometime.
I already considered you a friend of both myself and the forum. I don't pay much attention to the forum's friend feature. It doesn't make any difference in how I use the forum and I doubt most people even know it's there; but I'm always happy to acknowledge a friendship when asked.
Take care,
Mikel