I feel so sorry for Mr P.

I never use a booth. I paid for a photo for my last passport ( last year) at a small private photographers in our town and got a very passable photo back. When I got my bus pass it was processed at the local library , the librarian took the photo and the card came the following week in the post. I was allowed to smile so that too was ok. Photo booths are evil, give me a person any day!

I remember my dear old dad after he had had his photo taken for his bus pass many years ago. After priding himself on his good Italian looks as a young man he came home and said "I never realised I looked so bloody ugly". It still makes us smile to think of it.

When face timing with the GC I avoid looking at me in the corner of the screen.

Has anyone tried this "ten year" craze that is all over the internet?
You put a photo of you now next to one taken 10 years ago. The premise is that you look better now
Does this just apply to gawky 11 or 12 year old ducklings who have transformed into beautiful 17/18 year old swans, Pittycity?

sorry, arithmetic all awry! I mean 21/22 year old swans

I'll be OK when I've had another

I am the same. I did think of putting my photo in the window of the door as a “Beware of the Owner” warning. I had no idea I Had such a sour old witch face.

I paid £9 (as opposed to £6 in a photo booth) in our local branch of Snappy Snaps. The young man took three shots before he was happy with the result. It is the best passport type photo I have had in a long time but with no glasses, no smile and hair behind my ears, it is no pin up!

I used to work as a photographer and took a passport photo for my Mum when she was early 70s. She was looking pretty grim anyway (illness not diagnosed at that stage) and the photo was pretty horrid, but sadly accurate. She hated it and said it made her look like an old woman. My father, always the epitome of tact, took it from her, looked at it and said: "You are old - that is what old women look like." Good old Dad! No wonder I grew up with no big head!

I like the fact that you are not supposed to smile in these photos - when I do, the loss of flesh round my lips makes me look like a scary cadaver. I console myself with the idea that in real life my smile is radiant!

Yep, my passport photo is dreadful and the lady in the chemist who took it had two goes! I had to accept that that was how I looked...........dreadful!!
Happily I looked out a photo of me from 10 years ago and I don't look that different now. Mind you that's not to say that I looked up to much then!!

We took our passport photos at home, I took two quick snaps of DH and one was accepted online. I had my hairdresser come and had my make up done, fifty photos later we still couldn't find an acceptable one. The next day I walked into a room, hair mussed and no make up, DH took the photo and what do you know ? I now have to live with this photo for the next ten years and on my driving licence.

Luckily no one much sees passport these days, with the iris recognition tech. Just drive carefully so driving licence never needs to be produced

Some years ago we visited Siem Reap where you needed identity badges to enter the temple grounds. Our guide liked the dawn approach when it was cooler and in the scurry to get dressed we put on each other's identity lanyard. Different guards on either side of the car carefully scrutinised and passed us through. It was a blow as DH is bald with glasses and quite lined but in a handsome way.

phoenix keep Mr.P away from Spec Savers. There are others available.

I have found photos look better when I try to smile with my eyes, it softens the rest of the face.
The one on my bus pass looks OK because they slimmed it down to fit, and it was taken 12 years ago. Will they reproduce the same one for the rest of my life I wonder?

I have a bus pass (not a free one; I'm too young and fresh!)
I know the picture is awful, but I showed it the other day on the bus, and the driver laughed and said "Bad day when you had that taken, was it?"