Normally, like when I renew a driver’s license, I put on a suit and tie for the photo and then dress normally when I get home. It amuses me. For my WA license, I didn’t bother; but I still look okay.
Today I received my PADI Advanced Open Water Diver card in the mail. The photo was taken on the ferry back from Nanaimo – after three days of diving and rather severe sleep deprivation. I sacked out on a locker on the deck for half an hour, then was rousted awake for the photo. I’m wearing a red tuque (“beanie”). Not looking my best.
But the worst is that the instructor isn’t a photographer. There is an exterior lamp centred over my head. It looks as if I have a highball glass balanced on my gulliver.
Hah! It CAN’T be any worse than the picture of me on my old DoD Civilian ID card. That picture was SOOOOOO bad that the gate guards would do double takes and laugh EVERY stinkin’ day. I am not exaggerating in the least. The day I had my picture taken for the ID card there was a terrible wind and rain storm. I had forgotten my umbrella and I had very stupidly used a little hairspray in my hair. It was sticking up and off to on side and nothing I did with my fingers would help it.
God, I was so glad to get my new CAC card. That picture is at least decent and LOOKS like me.
I’ve been told that I have a naturally grumpy expression, and I suppose that’s accurate. But one time at the DMV the clerk was pissing me off royally (I forget how exactly, but you can imagine), and it showed big-time in my driver’s license photo. Nick Nolte’s mug shot looked like Tickle Me Elmo next to MY surly face. Luckily another clerk took the photo out of the developer, showed it to me, and offered to reshoot it for me so I didn’t have to go around for four years with that hideous thing in my wallet. I mean, I’m not photogenic anyway, but even I’M not THAT ugly!
I dunno I think my driver license picture - taken when I was 39 weeks pregnant and after standing in line at the DMV for 1.5 hours - might win the prize. Boy was I cranky.
I’m still angry because the local dept of motor vehicles uses an eight-year-old photograph, the very first I had taken in this state, on my drivers’ license even though I don’t use the renew by mail option. I have a new picture taken every four years, and I still get a license with the original picture on it. I’m not Dorian Gray, I’m the King of Soup, and I don’t comb my receding hair over my head anymore! Grr!
I have had one, just one, decent ID picture ever. I was just so damn happy to finally be at the front of the line I looked like this ===>
Every other license, work or school ID has something like :mad: :dubious: :rolleyes: or :o on it.
