Are graduation photos this trashy these days?

[abcdefz]

So I got a graduation invitation from one of my nieces.

Enclosed is her graduation photo. Tight, striped tee shirt, hip huggers, lying upside down, provocatively, finger to her lips, hair splayed
all around her like a sunburst.

WHAT THE FUCK

[mikizee]

what teh eff indeed

[abcdefz]

I think not.

[camo]

Lets trade her for Joel then

[abcdefz]

I'm tellin ya -- the photo just screams "academia."

[ms.peachy]

Which of her parents is your sibling?

If it was my sister's kid, I'd call her up and be like "So, what made you go with the "Barely Legal" porn theme?"

[abcdefz]

Her dad is my oldest doofus. His character is questionable, but my sister-in-law has a good head on her shoulders. I thought.

[abcdefz]

If it was my sister's kid, I'd call her up and be like "So, what made you go with the "Barely Legal" porn theme?"



If we were closer -- hell, if we spoke at all -- I'd maybe say something.

When I graduated, I bucked family tradition by picking the photo of me in a sweater for the yearbook, rather than one with a tie. Maybe
the chicken's coming home to roost.

[bigblu89]

I guess they have come a long way.

THIS (http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-7/287142/pic.jpg) was my yearbook photo.

We didn't even get to chose the pose.

I definitely would've went with something more provacative.

[abcdefz]

That's pretty standard.

I'm not posting my niece's picture, obviously, but this pose was more like a Vargas illustration.

The Miley Cyrus photo thing didn't bug me too much, and she's exposing skin which my niece isn't, but for some reason this really bothers me.

Good picture, by the way.

[Waus]

[QUOTE=abcdefz;1583479

When I graduated, I bucked family tradition by picking the photo of me in a sweater for the yearbook, rather than one with a tie. Maybe
the chicken's coming home to roost.[/QUOTE]

You rebel!:cool:

[abcdefz]

I was the only senior that year who's yearbook photo wasn't the shirt and tie thing.

High school was funny. At year's end, I was voted both most conservative and most liberal. Which is about right.

[Waus]

That's pretty braggable.

I definitely wouldn't object to being labeled that way.

[hpdrifter]

Wow. That's too bad, it sounds pretty overt.

[yeahwho]

That is a pretty standard thing, most of the kids have either a professional photographer or somebody else take a zillion photos of them then pick out the one they think will land them a part on American Idol or MTV's Real life/True Life etc. and put that photo in the yearbook.

I'm tried to talk my nephew into just having a standard mug shot photo in black and white taken, he really liked the idea then chickened out at the last minute but now has remorse because it would of really stood out since the Seniors all have color pictures in the yearbook.

Yearbooks always cracked me up. Hey it could of been this photo (http://www.joeydevilla.com/2008/04/08/the-best-high-school-yearbook-photo-ever/).

[abcdefz]

Yoikes


Yoikes



Another kinda stupid thing about my niece's photo is that, because it's framing almost all of her body, her head is so small you can't really
see her face.

[Miho]

That is a pretty standard thing, most of the kids have either a professional photographer or somebody else take a zillion photos of them then pick out the one they think will land them a part on American Idol or MTV's Real life/True Life etc. and put that photo in the yearbook.

I'm tried to talk my nephew into just having a standard mug shot photo in black and white taken, he really liked the idea then chickened out at the last minute but now has remorse because it would of really stood out since the Seniors all have color pictures in the yearbook.

Yearbooks always cracked me up. Hey it could of been this photo (http://www.joeydevilla.com/2008/04/08/the-best-high-school-yearbook-photo-ever/).

That photo is sick!

[Loppfessor]

Uh I can't make an educated decison w/out actually seeing the photo...please post or e-mail it

[abcdefz]

I love that he's even got his hand on her ass. 100% class.

[Dorothy Wood]

my high school only accepted the standard pose for the yearbook. people went and got their own photos at the same time though, just to have and/or distribute.

I never did the whole outdoor scene poses, just portraits. some people went all fancy, but it wasn't the norm. the only thing scandalous about my photo was my hair (blonde streaks in front) and the fact that I was wearing a man's sweater.

[kleptomaniac]

for the senior pictures in our yearbook, all the girls have to wear this blue silky thing that drapes around our shoulders, and all the guys have to wear tuxedos. also, i'm holding a white rose in mine. :P and i quoted beastie boys for my senior quote, so mwahahaha! :cool:

[Freebasser]

Thank fuck that whole yearbook thing doesn't exist in these here parts.

[ToucanSpam]

I just got my BA grad photo done, but there's no fuckin way I'm posting it on this message board.

[funk63]

for the senior pictures in our yearbook, all the girls have to wear this blue silky thing that drapes around our shoulders, and all the guys have to wear tuxedos. also, i'm holding a white rose in mine. :P and i quoted beastie boys for my senior quote, so mwahahaha! :cool:

post it!

[kleptomaniac]

my senior picture? no...sorry. :p

[funk63]

okey dokey

[hitmonlee]

ours was only of our faces... or hands if you chose to put them near your face. you could pull whatever face you wanted. the people taking the photos were the photography students, so they all had the nicest photos as they got to sit there and take many shots until they looked great.

one guy refused a photo, and any information about himself. its simply his name, and then a scan of a weird picture - its like part of the number 5 printed on paper, and then zooomed in heaps so you see the ink leaking into the paper...

there's always one!

[abcdefz]

If I still had my senior picture, you guys could see what I looked like with hair.

Pretty exciting thought, huh?

[taquitos]

ours was just a normal portrait shot. my school made us guys wear the top
half of a tux and the girls had to wear some bizarre half-dress sleeve so that
it held their arms down to the sides.

[Yetra Flam]

i didn't even have such a photo

[na§tee]

Thank fuck that whole yearbook thing doesn't exist in these here parts.
here here.

they tried to introduce something similar into my final year at school, but they didn't have the budget (ha!) what did they do instead? made a fucking poster. a POSTER. a collage poster of various 'informal' personal photos of us during the year. i certainly did not buy one or submit a photograph. the back of my head got in though, purely because some chick wanted to have a picture of me arm wrestling her in a maths class. geez, arm wrestling?! that seriously didn't stop the whisperings that i must absolutely be a lesbian.

imagine a fucking poster of all of the people you went to high school with. having it up on your wall. seeing those faces every day. i would have scratched 60% of the eyes out on receipt.