Ship of Fools: Who posed for your picture?

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Posted by Graven Image (# 8755) on :

I just received my new drivers license and it appears that my elderly mother must have posed for the picture before she left this life. That can't be me. It did not make it any better that they placed the circular stamp right under my eyes, so I look like I have giant bags.
On my passport on the other hand I look like a large haired country western singer. It had rained that day and my natural curl took over my head. Just as they took the picture I started to smile but did not quite make it so my mouth is open as if about to sing. Who posed for your picture ID's?

Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :

Someone very weak an poorly posed for mine.

[Disappointed]

Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :

My mother turns up increasingly in mine. When she's not elbowed aside by my grandmother.

Another thing: you glance in the mirror and think Not bad. Now replace the mirror with a camera - is the resultant image the same as the reflection? No. Some thrawn and haggard spectre is clearly hiding in the lens.

Posted by Jack the Lass (# 3415) on :

I think my current passport is the last one where I'm going to be vaguely happy about presenting it. If recent photos are anything to go by I can expect to be sent back to check-in to check in the ever larger bags under my eyes.

Myra Hindley posed for my driving licence photo. Truly the most scary and mortifying picture I have.

Posted by Heavenly Anarchist (# 13313) on :

My mother always stares back at me in every photograph. My twin brother and I could virtually re-enact my parents' wedding photos. Obviously I get more like her as I grow older but I also seem to notice more since she died 4 years ago.

Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :

I have an ID card which needed a black-and-white photo. A retired Russian female shot putter, currently employed as a prison guard posed for that one.

Posted by churchgeek (# 5557) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Firenze:
Another thing: you glance in the mirror and think Not bad. Now replace the mirror with a camera - is the resultant image the same as the reflection? No. Some thrawn and haggard spectre is clearly hiding in the lens.

I know! Why is that? My bathroom doesn't have such flattering lighting?

I suspect it's because when you look in the mirror, since you see yourself, you instinctively make more flattering faces/gestures/poses? Maybe it's just me - when I smile for a camera, my face goes all contorted. Sometimes I look like I'm having a stroke. Being aware of this, I've tried smiling in the mirror, and it looks much better.

And like others here - I see my mom increasingly in my photos. Not entirely yet.

Posted by Niminypiminy (# 15489) on :

quote:
Originally posted by churchgeek:

And like others here - I see my mom increasingly in my photos. Not entirely yet.

I should be so lucky. I look increasingly like my dad.

Posted by Heavenly Anarchist (# 13313) on :

One of the reasons mirrors lie is that you see yourself in reverse. When you look at a photo you see yourself as other's see you but it is not the face you are familiar with, it is the wrong way round.

Posted by comet (# 10353) on :

Jabba the Hut snuck in to my passport photo session. Seriously hideous. My license does look a bit like my mother, but not in a bad way. I wish they'd allow us to smile, though. Crap, i look grumpy!

Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :

I skipped right past my mother (who has been accused of being my sister), and my grandmother showed up for my pictures. How did that happen? I have pictures from last week-ish showing the real me. Even though my children somehow shrunk to babes in those photos.

Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Heavenly Anarchist:
One of the reasons mirrors lie is that you see yourself in reverse. When you look at a photo you see yourself as other's see you but it is not the face you are familiar with, it is the wrong way round.

True. But it doesn't account for why you look twenty years older in the photograph as against the reflection.

Posted by M. (# 3291) on :

Originally posted by Jack the Lass:

quote:
Myra Hindley posed for my driving licence photo. Truly the most scary and mortifying picture I have.

Huh! I look like Myra Hindley in every photo taken of me!

M.

Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :

George Clooney

Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :

Pyx_e beat me to it. I was going to post Brad Pitt.

On a more serious note, who enchanted all the mirrors? When I look in them my maternal grandfather stares back at me.

Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :

quote:
Originally posted by balaam:

On a more serious note, who enchanted all the mirrors? When I look in them my maternal grandfather stares back at me.

In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.

Mirror

Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :

I don't look much like any of my family. But I used to have a piece of ID where the photgraph was plainly that of an IRA gunman on the run in 1937.

Posted by Haydee (# 14734) on :

Definitely a hardened small-scale criminal on my driving licence. Nothing as dramatic as a serial killer though, just someone endlessly caught for assault, shoplifting, drunk & disorderly, minor drug offences and similar. My children (truanting or excluded from school half the time) are on the at risk register without it ever getting so bad they're removed. Someone you wouldn't want living next door...

Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :

For a decade I had the glowering spawn of Satan on my driving licence. What's really scary is that I also had the same photo on my shutgun certificate - and I certainly wouldn't have given anyone that evil looking access to lethal weapons!

AG

Posted by The Intrepid Mrs S (# 17002) on :

Things haven't improved much for me, either - in my first passport I looked like a member of the Baader-Meinhof gang, hiding out in a dark cellar. Now I am older, I must have been elbowed out of the photo by a concentration camp guard - I can't bear to wear the blue-grey fleece she posed in any more! [Roll Eyes]

And that, dear friends, is why I still do not have a photo driving licence (because they automatically use the same photo *sigh*)

I admit it's my mother who shoves me out of the way when I look in the mirror, but better her than that concentration camp guard [Ultra confused]

And on a related subject - why aren't the mirrors and lighting in department store changing rooms more flattering? If I didn't bear an uncanny resemblance to one of those giant slugs when I stand there in my undies*, I might buy more clothes from their shops....

*'Fifty Shades of Grey'

Mrs. S, phar phrom photogenic

Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on :

As I grow older, despite having less hair than my father did, I look increasingly like him and my eldest brother.

At least that's what a mirror tells me.

In my passport which is my only piece of formal ID I wonder why they ever let me in other countries - or, indeed, even back home!

My bus pass is 11 years old. I look somewhat human, even though I had just been sent home from the hospital after a bout with cancer. I shudder to think what it will look like next year when I have to upgrade to a bus pass for old farts.

On the other hand, my latest Indian visa is picture is almost flattering. It goes to show that if you make an effort to dress up before your ID picture is taken dividends are paid.

Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :

quote:
Originally posted by The Intrepid Mrs S:

And on a related subject - why aren't the mirrors and lighting in department store changing rooms more flattering?

You want to try on clothes at the make up counters. One department store here, I always notice that the glass is slightly smoked and the lighting warm - so that when you try on some overpriced slap, you appear to have acquired a peachy bloom.

And a local dress shop either had a distorting mirror in their changing room, or my legs grew by 3 inches every time I went in there.

The changing rooms I hate are the ones with angled mirrors behind you - so that you can see that, yes, your bum does look big in everything.

Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :

When I got my latest office ID card I changed from Mick Fleetwood to Clement Freud. It can't all be the state of my beard, surely?

Posted by cheesymarzipan (# 9442) on :

For my current passport photo I made sure to get a decent photo of myself. Then I went along to the passport office to get my passport sorted out and they said 'Your glasses cover too much of your face. The biometrics won't work with these glasses.'
So I had to get a new photo taken WITHOUT glasses. I am really short sighted without glasses so my eyes are quite unfocused. I also look a bit grumpy as I was cross at having to pay for new ugly photos when I already had some nice ones.
Though dazed and grumpy is what I normally look like when I'm travelling so it looks quite like me except for not wearing glasses!

Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :

quote:
Originally posted by cheesymarzipan:
Though dazed and grumpy is what I normally look like when I'm travelling so it looks quite like me except for not wearing glasses!

Erma Bombeck wrote a book, When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home -- how true.

Posted by Desert Daughter (# 13635) on :

My great-grandmother after she'd joined the Taliban.

Posted by The5thMary (# 12953) on :

A serial killer with a lazy eye. Or maybe a cereal killer. Same lazy eye.

I never smile for pictures because I always look like an idiot. Now, if someone catches me smiling in a natural way, that's great. I do smile and laugh quite a bit but have never been able to manufacture a smile on the spot that doesn't look like a smirk. therefore, any "official" photos of me have me looking like a convict. [Biased]

Posted by Starbug (# 15917) on :

My passport photo looks like Morticia Addams' mugshot. She has obviously had a very rough night and been arrested for something hideous. Strangely enough, even though my hair is now a lot shorter, I can sometimes see her in the mirror. [Frown]

Posted by pjl (# 16929) on :

Spent a full day in Liverpool for medical tests and injections against every known disease on the planet, and ID photo for my seamans pass book.

Each injection was administered at a different establishment and I lost count at 8 injections in one arm and 7 in the other.On the way to the photographers I was drenched with rain and the wind was blowing a gale.

Finally the photo, no comb and not one mirror in the room, the photographer said I should 'run my fingers through my hair a bit'and hold a board with a string of numbers across my chest, my arms were really aching.

I looked like any mugshot shown on Police File only worse.I often frighten people when I show it.

Posted by Zacchaeus (# 14454) on :

I have no idea who it was, but if I ever catch them............. [Mad]

edited for speeling...

[ 10. December 2012, 21:05: Message edited by: Zacchaeus ]

Posted by Moo (# 107) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:

quote:
Originally posted by cheesymarzipan:
Though dazed and grumpy is what I normally look like when I'm travelling so it looks quite like me except for not wearing glasses!
Erma Bombeck wrote a book, When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home -- how true.

An actress once said that if the authorities didn't recognize her passport photo, they wouldn't let her off the boat. If they did recognize her passport photo, she didn't want to get off the boat.

Moo

Posted by BessHiggs (# 15176) on :

I am convinced that our local DMV's camera has a special filter that causes normal average looking people to appear to be crazed meth-heads after a three-day bender in their license photos. That's the only explanation for why my photo looks the way it does. [Disappointed]

Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :

Charles Manson, I fear

Posted by St Everild (# 3626) on :

Some humourless b***h with an unflattering haircut and too many chins.

Posted by Kasra (# 10631) on :

Mine is unfortunately a good resemblance of a crotchety and irritated yet slightly scattered professor. Any resemblance to reality is, er, ahem.

K

Posted by Sparrow (# 2458) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Heavenly Anarchist:
My mother always stares back at me in every photograph. My twin brother and I could virtually re-enact my parents' wedding photos. Obviously I get more like her as I grow older but I also seem to notice more since she died 4 years ago.

Shakespeare got there first:

!Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime."

Full text here: http://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/3.html

Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :

I usually look pretty good in photos. It's the point at which the pass checker then looks up at the real me - and you can see the disappointment in his eyes - which cuts me to the quick every time.... [Help]

Posted by rolyn (# 16840) on :

I look like 'The man with no name', minus the foul tasting cigar that made him famous.

A bit ironic for an ID card .

Posted by Heavenly Anarchist (# 13313) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Sparrow:

quote:
Originally posted by Heavenly Anarchist:
My mother always stares back at me in every photograph. My twin brother and I could virtually re-enact my parents' wedding photos. Obviously I get more like her as I grow older but I also seem to notice more since she died 4 years ago.
Shakespeare got there first:

!Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime."

Full text here: http://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/3.html

The paraphrase given of the full sonnet is thought provoking though slightly sad. My sons also look very like me.

Posted by Jade Constable (# 17175) on :

One of my maternal great-aunts (my maternal great-grandparents had 6 daughters and a son, and I am lucky to have known all of them although my maternal great-grandfather died before my mum was born - but I my great-grandmother was younger than him and I was 9 when she died).

Unfortunately it's not the oldest great-aunt, a tall and slender Anglican nun (Convent of the Holy Name in Derby), but the short and stout youngest one.

Posted by The Intrepid Mrs S (# 17002) on :

quote:
Originally posted by St Everild:
Some humourless b***h with an unflattering haircut and too many chins.

Mrs. S, sniggering behind her hand

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