Cheese is a Dairy Product, Not an Expression
It is that time of year when the photographers are booked to visit schools for that first official school photo of the new year. Watching mums and dads fuss this morning over stray strands of hair and smartening their children up knowing full well that by the time they took their seat in front of the camera lens they would be slightly bedraggled once more. For the children it is exciting and gets them out of class which is a bonus but for the teaching staff and myself it is much dreaded. Trying to organise year group after year group of wriggling, wind-swept youngsters into a straight line and ticking their name off as soon as their bottom is perched in front of the white backdrop is hardly a walk in the park. And then there were the ones who looked everywhere but at the camera and the ones who stood up as soon as the camera clicked leaving the photographer with a school uniform blur on her screen.
Sitting with all the children reminded me of all my school photos over the years. I remember it being the funnest thing at Primary school and then as I got older, the most awkward. Either the photographers would make you pose in the most unnatural way in a vain attempt to make you look cute or they would give each child the same noble posture which lacked conviction when coming from an eleven year old (please see the photos below as evidence). Why is it that you always loose a tooth right before school photo day too? Or get a bump or graze on your cheek. In my day you only got one chance too. The photographer wanted to get the job done and pack up as soon as possible, as you will see in the photos below. So here they are, a timeline from top left to bottom right of possibly the worst official school and work photos ever including today's efforts.
I know, good grief right! There is a common theme in hairstyles which switch between my mum's "Quick-its-school-photos-get-the-scissors", the classic bowl cut and a marginally better bob with bangs which I have kept as an adult.
Safe to say that school photos are not the best representation of a child through the years. That and we always look better in selfies anyway!
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Sitting with all the children reminded me of all my school photos over the years. I remember it being the funnest thing at Primary school and then as I got older, the most awkward. Either the photographers would make you pose in the most unnatural way in a vain attempt to make you look cute or they would give each child the same noble posture which lacked conviction when coming from an eleven year old (please see the photos below as evidence). Why is it that you always loose a tooth right before school photo day too? Or get a bump or graze on your cheek. In my day you only got one chance too. The photographer wanted to get the job done and pack up as soon as possible, as you will see in the photos below. So here they are, a timeline from top left to bottom right of possibly the worst official school and work photos ever including today's efforts.
I know, good grief right! There is a common theme in hairstyles which switch between my mum's "Quick-its-school-photos-get-the-scissors", the classic bowl cut and a marginally better bob with bangs which I have kept as an adult.
Safe to say that school photos are not the best representation of a child through the years. That and we always look better in selfies anyway!
Love Blue Sky
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