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Reagan Brought Home Her School Pictures Today. Should I Ground Her Or High-Five Her?

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Who? Me? 3 years ago

I love both her expressions

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Apparently I Didn't Know How To Smile In First Grade

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09Robdog07 3 years ago

Isn't this image a meme?

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For millions of kids, picture day is that one special day in a year when they align to form a tiny conveyor belt. Smiling widely at a camera (or not, as we’ve seen in this amusing post), they will be forever memorialized in a small photograph that captures it all: innocent awkwardness, clumsiness, and carelessness which will haunt their moms and dads forever.

Kristin Boyer, a photographer in Atlanta, Georgia, told Mental Floss that school photographers get about 30 seconds per kid. “And it’s amazing how much impact you can have. You want to make them feel like a million bucks—beautiful, awesome, and smart.”

I’m So Mad Right Now. I Checked My Son's Book Bag And Find These

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Full of Giggles 3 years ago

I wouldn't be mad. I'd rather have pictures that capture my kid's personality than the same ol' pose year after year.

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In Case You've Ever Wondered What Happens When Your Kid Wears Green On Picture Day

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Raine Soo 3 years ago

When you literally fade into the background.

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10m, And Looking Like A Middle Age Mom Who’s Deciding To Grace You With A Smile, While Still Judging You Just A Little

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Wendillon 3 years ago

That description is eerily accurate

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Sandshifter 3 years ago

Looks like he's going to call the police on you for being on your own property.

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Kari Panda 3 years ago

I think that’s still a lovely photo.

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JessG 3 years ago

What’s the problem here? He looks great

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Amy Dodds 3 years ago

It's Shirley from Community!

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Olina 3 years ago

exactly :D

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Steve Cruz 3 years ago

"I have to be professional, but we're not gonna be friends."

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Patty Stier 3 years ago

Yet I see a sweet young lad with a cute smile and friendly eyes.

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Chelle R. 3 years ago

What's the problem with him?! He's adorable & I love his pinch worthy cheeks!

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BoredPanda is awesome 3 years ago

Love the photo though. He looks good

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Benjamin Taylor 3 years ago

Shirley!

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Kenvee6 3 years ago

Beautiful person

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Mishte Tine 3 years ago (edited)

Awww... sweet picture, sweet face.

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Dorothy Parker 3 years ago

Beautiful child.

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Leif Midjord 2 years ago

This is 100% Yvette Nicole Brown in the show Community! :D

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Leif Midjord 2 years ago

This is 100% Yvette Nicole Brown in Community!

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ILOVEBAMBOO 3 years ago

What's wrong with this picture?

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Jamie S. Martindale 3 years ago

Expression makes me think of the Shirley character from "Community" TV series

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Dhandyline Camingao 3 years ago

#MegaFatCEObaby #BossBaby

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Judy Dunlevy 3 years ago

Why am I seeing Janet Jackson?

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DoctorStrange 3 years ago

Shirley from community

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The school photographer also explained that photographers normally get paid when parents order photos, and the school takes a percentage from that price. Moreover, the school may well take bids in order to decide on the photographer that suits their need best. In order to get selected, Kristin makes a presentation where “I'll explain what I do. Sometimes schools are looking for certain things.”

Most importantly, as much as the little ones are excited by the big photo day at school, it’s parents who take the occasion the most seriously. Sometimes parents get so excited, they take their phones out to take some snaps on there. But Kristin is strict about that. “I usually say no cell phone photos. If they take theirs, they won’t buy mine.”

And when it comes to selfies, the little ones have grown much more comfortable standing in front of a camera. But that’s not necessarily a good thing. The photographer calls it “bad selfie behavior” when kids are “doing duck lips, thrusting their arms out.”

Mason Got His Kindergarten Pictures And I Didn’t Want His Name On The Bottom So I Typed In “I Don’t Want This” And They Freaking Printed This... So Now I Have Like 30 Pictures Of Him With This On The Bottom

Mason Got His Kindergarten Pictures And I Didn’t Want His Name On The Bottom So I Typed In “I Don’t Want This” And They Freaking Printed This... So Now I Have Like 30 Pictures Of Him With This On The Bottom

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Thunder 3 years ago

And you tell his name to the internet?

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His Face Says It All

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Who? Me? 3 years ago

All these kids became memes ???

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I Still Think That This Is My Favorite Photo Of All Time

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Purr·maid 3 years ago

He looks like he might want to throw that egg.🥚

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My Brother's Pre-K Picture. He Didn't Know How To Smile

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ML 3 years ago

He's got it

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#11

I Told My 9-Year-Old I Didn’t Care What He Did In His Spring School Photos. This Is What He Gave Us

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crazy_cat_notAlady 3 years ago

hey, u look like Jim Carrey in this photo!

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The School Offered To Re-Shoot The Photo But My Parents Declined

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ML 3 years ago

I swear to god if you make me pose for one more picture, sleep with one eye open

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#13

Oh My

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Francis 3 years ago

angry little fella :D

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#14

My Wife’s School Picture With Her Most Prized Possession At The Time. An Evanescence Cd

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Feral Heart 3 years ago

great taste in music, i still listen to them

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#15

I Too Was Instructed Not To Blink During My Elementary School Yearbook Photo

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Purr·maid 3 years ago

Good boy!

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#16

How’s Your 2020 Going?

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Tabitha L 3 years ago

This one is adorable too. Piratey. Arrrrr, matey.

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#17

My Daughter's First Ever School Photo. She Was So Excited For Days, Went In And Got A Mugshot Instead

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ML 3 years ago

she read the pamphlet right before the picture. NO SMILES TODAY!

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#18

Me In The 4th Grade Ready To Go On Some Sort Of Tropical Safari With My Best Friend

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ravn 3 years ago

I dunno, even in college a safari with Pee Wee would have made my life goals list.

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#19

School Photos Sometimes In The Early 2000s. I Really Thought I Was "Da Bomb"

I remember going to "Limited Too" and thinking those velour pants were a must.

GeneralLeeCooll Report

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Lauren Caswell 3 years ago

That look is spot on 2000s fashions!

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#20

Jack's Picture This Year. Seriously, School Photographer? Seriously?!?!

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Raine Soo 3 years ago

I actually like this photo. Jack has a cute smile that probably lights up the entire room. Even his eyes are smiling.

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#21

Sasshole

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Rissie 3 years ago

Why would you put that on a child though. Hardly a surprise that this would happen.

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#22

My 2nd Grade School Pic. I'm A Girl

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Dorothy Parker 3 years ago

Such a pretty girl, no matter what.

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#23

This Was The Retake Of My Second Grade School Photo

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Raine Soo 3 years ago (edited)

Retake...Okay, what did the first one look like?

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#24

My Friend Was Saying “Yee” Before You Were Saying “Haw”

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Tara Brooks 3 years ago

I’ve never seen anything better

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#25

My Mom Found My Old Elementary School Photo The Other Day

I just remember my mom was mad because they didn't let me do a retake.

JaysonChrist Report

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Andrew Gibb 3 years ago

Charlie Sheen as a kid

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"He Was Told To Wear Nice Clothes For His Graduation Pictures. I Expected To See Him In His Green Cap And Gown. This Was So Much Better! I Literally Laughed Until I Cried. I Hit The Picture Lottery. -- I Asked Connor How Pictures Went And If He Smiled Nice. In True 6 -Year Old-Fashion, He Told Me He ‘Smiled Handsome.' I Thought Nothing More Of It. Until Yesterday Morning

"He Was Told To Wear Nice Clothes For His Graduation Pictures. I Expected To See Him In His Green Cap And Gown. This Was So Much Better! I Literally Laughed Until I Cried. I Hit The Picture Lottery. -- I Asked Connor How Pictures Went And If He Smiled Nice. In True 6 -Year Old-Fashion, He Told Me He ‘Smiled Handsome.' I Thought Nothing More Of It. Until Yesterday Morning

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LuckyL 3 years ago

This is indeed a really handsome smile

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#27

School Photo Circa 1996. Allergies Were Hitting Me Hard That Day

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Raine Soo 3 years ago

Allergies are a pain. I feel ya.

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#28

Why Yes!! My Vest Was Homemade!

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Dilly Millandry 3 years ago

Thankfully not what we call a vest in the UK. That would be more worrying.

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#29

School Pictures Today. I Hope I Don’t Get A Repeat Of This Gem From 2016

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DC 3 years ago

Made me very laugh ... a very laughy laugh, you know?

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#30

What? You Don’t Always Have Your Arm Straight Out To The Side While Looking Terrified During Pictures?

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Tiari 3 years ago

He's hugging his invisible support animal.

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My Original 3rd Grade School Photo (Left). Mom Demanded A Retake (Right) With The Instructions "Smile! Show Some Teeth!" Note Which One Got Framed, And The Caption On The Envelope

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Dorothy Parker 3 years ago

The first photo was fine.

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When You're Super Excited To See Your Kids School Pictures... And Then You Find This In The Packet

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Raine Soo 3 years ago

I had a grade school photo where I looked like that. My mother was not amused.

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Note To Self: Don’t Let Your Kid Wear Green On Picture Day

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Purr·maid 3 years ago

Makes for a very interesting school picture tho'.

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#34

Best Yearbook Picture Ever. Apparently The School Sees No Future For This One

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Lauren Caswell 3 years ago

That's harsh advice for Cadence's folks lol

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#35

Best School Picture Ever. Kai Kai Was Obviously Not Feeling Picture Day

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Rick 3 years ago

So good they named him twice twice

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#36

1994, Age 7 First Grade. My Stepdad Says I Wanted My Hair Cut That Way

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Raine Soo 3 years ago

You looked like a thistle.

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#37

Beau And The Photographer Had Great Chemistry

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Tabitha L 3 years ago

This is giving me Weekend at Bernie's vibes.

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#38

I Promise My Child Is Happy And Isn’t Living In Misery As He Appears In This Photo

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Kim 3 years ago

Hahaha aaaw I really like this one. You can see him trying so hard to NOT blink. "Oh wait, I also need to smile... uh oh that was the picture!"

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School Pictures

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Who? Me? 3 years ago

Moriarty!!!

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When Your Sweet Boy Wears His Favorite Green Underarmour Shirt To School For Picture Day! Green Screen Fail!..

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Ilsa Laszlo 3 years ago

Catching in The rye

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#41

This School Photo Is What Finally Convinced My Mom To Stop Cutting My Hair At Home

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Dilly Millandry 3 years ago

I am glad of that on your behalf.

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#42

I Was Too Impatient For My Mom To Cut My Hair, So I Did It My Self

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Rick 3 years ago

With a knife and fork?

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#43

My Kids Are Awesome At School Pictures

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Tara Brooks 3 years ago

Cute!

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#44

Cheese... I Think

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queer weebio 3 years ago

when ur lactose intolerant and they say cheese:

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#45

At Least She's Smiling

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Raine Soo 3 years ago

Smiling? More like sneering.

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#46

I Paid For This...

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Dilly Millandry 3 years ago

Some children genuinely don't know how how to smile naturally when instructed. I learned this when doing a photoshoot with some blind children who, bless them, had no idea. They had clearly had the mechanics of a smile explained to them but it resulted in grimaces. They smiled when we joked around and got them to laugh though.

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"I Forgot To Smile"

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Dorothy Parker 3 years ago

Left the dentures home?

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#48

My Husband Was Clearly Not Feeling Picture Day In 3rd Grade

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ML 3 years ago

Kanye? Is that you?

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#49

I'm Just Going To Leave This Little Gem Here For Your Viewing Pleasure. It Is Too Bad Cameras Don't Show The Photographer What The Picture Will Look Like

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birdy gobyebye 3 years ago

🙂

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#50

The One Year I Didn't Buy His School Picture. What In The World Is That Look All About!?

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boop boop 3 years ago

i would 100% buy that picture 😂😂

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#51

Can Anyone Offer An Explanation Of How I Sent Jack To School At 9am Looking Like The Picture On The Left, And When He Took His School Pictures At 9:30am They Look Like The Picture On The Right?!?!

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Brivid 3 years ago

He's cute. I don't see the problem.

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#52

7 Year Old Me On Picture Day After Throwing A Huge Tantrum For No Reason

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JessG 3 years ago

“Don’t take the picture, I’m in the middle of telling you off!”

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Rainbow Panda 3 years ago

I don’t think they need retakes. 📷

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Wolfowl 3 years ago

The photo taker: Okay, move to the left. The other left. No, the right. Move up, chin down. My parents, getting the photos: Why do you look so angry?

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Sergio Bicerra Descalzi 3 years ago

The photo taker? Weird name for a photographer XD

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Dilly Millandry 3 years ago (edited)

People need to chill and just let their kids be. These days most of us take photos all the time so surely school photos matter a little less than they used to.

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DamnBecky 3 years ago

My favorite one I ever took, my dad let me dress myself. I wore all my favorites, little mermaid t-shirt, pink tutu, the green velvet belt from my Christmas dress, plastic sea shell necklace. My mom was PISSED. My dad loves it bc it shows "me"

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lisa-scheel 3 years ago

DamnBecky yes

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Astrid Nineor 3 years ago

Is it common to use green screens? We never did that, then again, it's been a while since the days of school photos....

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Ms.GB 3 years ago

I always like "messed up photos better"...what photo are you going to remember as an adult, the average run of the mill school photo or one with a little personality?!

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Damon Tripodi 3 years ago

School photographers have never known what they're doing they're the worst

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Anna Repp 3 years ago

I'm a photographer and I see this forced smile on the little ones often. It is very, very common in small kids. They just have not mastered their facial expressions. You tell them "give me a smile!" and they pull the corners of their little mouths as far as they can and show their teeth as much as they can and open their eyes wide and are so very proud of the big smiles they are showing! :) Sometimes (not too often) the parents and I are able to get a more natural expression from them, but most of the times we just let them do that face for a photo :)

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Dippin Dot 3 years ago

My son had a really bad one a couple of years ago... he popped his collar like it was the 80's. (but I refuse to share it bc I don't want to put his pic on the internet.)

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Fixin'Ta 3 years ago

Picture day is stressful enough without your parents posting your awful photo on the interwebs for the entire world to see. I hope the kids gave their permission. Some kids could blow it off and laugh, but not all. (And they're not "snowflakes" if they can't. It's perfectly okay to be a sensitive person.)

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cstrohmier2001 3 years ago

Fixin'Ta what

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Aj Grimes (them/they) 3 years ago

HAHAHAHA I ALMOST PEED MY PANTS.

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Jaydin Soto 1 year ago

All of them are masterpieces so yeah I agree with all of y'all none of the need retakes and I was making fun of them because their masterpieces like come on you never ever ever in your life pointed out the funniest things in masterpieces it out the funniest things

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Janet Bird 3 years ago

Laughed till I cried, thanks for that. :D

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Faith Hurst-Bilinski 3 years ago

My son always made faces in his school pictures. Just before freshman year he had one of his best and then found out it would be used for EVERYTHING in high school. HIs bus driver made him show his bus pass every day, even though she had been his bus driver forever (same bus driver does the routes at every level). She had a great time with it.

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patriciaanice 3 years ago

Faith Hurst-Bilinski Good response!

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Heather Williams 3 years ago

My mother has some of me in pre school where I absolutely refused to smile. Instead I gave the photographer my best pout. Personally I think that sums up me much more than a happy, smiling one.

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thangle 3 years ago

Heather Williams Good response!

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Tim Douglass 3 years ago

I got glasses in 3rd grade. My 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade pictures all featured a big wad of tape holding the frames together. Somehow I always managed to break them just before picture day!

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Kacey Close 3 years ago (edited)

Not sure what look my son was going for in this one... He *says* he was smiling. https://www.instagram.com/p/B5ovT1JHsGx/ Screenshot...0b-png.jpg

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adrienne82 3 years ago

Kacey Close +

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Kacey Close 3 years ago

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Julia Daxenbichler 3 years ago

Sure, share your child's humiliating photos on the internet for everyone to see! I wonder if the parents who do this would be fine having their worst childhood photos on the internet?

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Martha Meyer 3 years ago

Most of these are so old, the now grown up kids posted them themselves.

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Rainbow Panda 3 years ago

I don’t think they need retakes. 📷

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Wolfowl 3 years ago

The photo taker: Okay, move to the left. The other left. No, the right. Move up, chin down. My parents, getting the photos: Why do you look so angry?

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Sergio Bicerra Descalzi 3 years ago

The photo taker? Weird name for a photographer XD

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Dilly Millandry 3 years ago (edited)

People need to chill and just let their kids be. These days most of us take photos all the time so surely school photos matter a little less than they used to.

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DamnBecky 3 years ago

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lisa-scheel 3 years ago

DamnBecky yes

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Astrid Nineor 3 years ago

Is it common to use green screens? We never did that, then again, it's been a while since the days of school photos....

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Ms.GB 3 years ago

I always like "messed up photos better"...what photo are you going to remember as an adult, the average run of the mill school photo or one with a little personality?!

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Damon Tripodi 3 years ago

School photographers have never known what they're doing they're the worst

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Anna Repp 3 years ago

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Dippin Dot 3 years ago

My son had a really bad one a couple of years ago... he popped his collar like it was the 80's. (but I refuse to share it bc I don't want to put his pic on the internet.)

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Fixin'Ta 3 years ago

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cstrohmier2001 3 years ago

Fixin'Ta what

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Aj Grimes (them/they) 3 years ago

HAHAHAHA I ALMOST PEED MY PANTS.

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Jaydin Soto 1 year ago

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Janet Bird 3 years ago

Laughed till I cried, thanks for that. :D

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Faith Hurst-Bilinski 3 years ago

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patriciaanice 3 years ago

Faith Hurst-Bilinski Good response!

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Heather Williams 3 years ago

My mother has some of me in pre school where I absolutely refused to smile. Instead I gave the photographer my best pout. Personally I think that sums up me much more than a happy, smiling one.

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thangle 3 years ago

Heather Williams Good response!

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Tim Douglass 3 years ago

I got glasses in 3rd grade. My 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade pictures all featured a big wad of tape holding the frames together. Somehow I always managed to break them just before picture day!

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Kacey Close 3 years ago (edited)

Not sure what look my son was going for in this one... He *says* he was smiling. https://www.instagram.com/p/B5ovT1JHsGx/ Screenshot...0b-png.jpg

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adrienne82 3 years ago

Kacey Close +

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Kacey Close 3 years ago

This comment has been deleted.

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Julia Daxenbichler 3 years ago

Sure, share your child's humiliating photos on the internet for everyone to see! I wonder if the parents who do this would be fine having their worst childhood photos on the internet?

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Martha Meyer 3 years ago

Most of these are so old, the now grown up kids posted them themselves.

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