My mother swears that thing is me as a fetus. I think she just tuned the TV to a blank channel (heh, remember that? Snow?) and took a picture.
My god, those things have improved! A lady was printing out the ultrasound her daughter had e-mailed her at the library a few months ago and I was all prepared to pretend to see the baby, but holy crap it actually looked like a baby!
Tourist standing in front of a world-famous landmark, holding their hand in front of it so the landmark looks like it’s tiny. (Unless the landmark is the Leaning Tower of Pisa, in which case they are in a pose where it looks like they’re holding it up.)
In my family album we have a lot of pictures of people smiling in front of landmarks that nobody wanted to take a picture in front of, but Dad insists that we prove we were there or something. Everybody’s family has somebody who just doesn’t see the point of taking pictures without your family in them. My favorite is “family standing in front of the Dachau sign”. We had a big family fight when everybody refused to do it on the USS Arizona monument.
Or minutes. I’ve got one of my Uncle Steve at age 16 or so all smiles and ego with his first car. He’s the oldest child of that generation, so he was the first to get a car. He let next-oldest uncle take it for a ride down the driveway (into the back porch, into Grandpa who was drinking his morning coffee) and had his picture taken again minutes later, all sour-pussed, front end squished.
This is the only one we have from the ones you’ve described, only it’s me with feathered hair, velour shirt, glasses, and a rather prominent…blemish. :o I told my mom to not even order a print but she loved me and did it anyway.
We aren’t a normal family so we don’t have the party and dress-up-type ones at all.
Yup. With Mom in a hospital gown, absolutely exhausted and glassy-eyed but smiling.
I’ll also add hours-old baby swaddled in a hospital blanket and hat, with only a tiny red or brown face showing. And the blankets and hats are always, always the same. According to my mom, they’re still the same as they were 30 years ago.
I’ve always wanted to start a thread called Post a Photo of Your Pregnant Mom Smoking, but I figured not enough people would participate. And I don’t have a photo of my pregnant mom smoking. Yet, wouldn’t it make a great thread?
These seem to be a common theme in my family…
-kid grinning showing off missing tooth/teeth
-middle-age-or-older relative alseep on the sofa/cushy chair after Thanksgiving/Christmas feast.
-teenager and date dressed in prom attire