I lost Imran's passport so we had to get new photos last week. He was in foul mood and he had just chucked a tanty on the way to the camera shop so he just shut his mouth and glared at the guy with the camera. We got a perfect shot first go lol but the angry look in his eye should give any immigrations person the heebie jeebies.
I'm travelling with K next month to NZ. Lodged his application a few weeks ago and the lady at Australia Post told me they are a little bit more leniant with children's photos because of the obvious but yeah totally get what everyone else is saying about the neutral expression etc ..... like duh when does a child not want to smile when you say their name!
I had the same thing with DS's Australian passport photos - post office here wont do photos for babies so we had to trudge all the way to the mall. I just put a white cloth behind his head and left him in the pram. But try and keep DS's tongue in his head? No way! So he's got his tongue sticking out in the picture and they accepted it! Now I'm applying for his French passport, and wanted better photos but they're so bad! It took 40 minutes of trying to get him to stop laughing at the woman with the camera. In the end she picked the best out of the 14 photos and Photoshopped it to be almost ok. His Bonds singlet is soooo French...
hey,
yep same issue my sons head was slightly turned but could see top of his ears. his mouth is ever so slightly open too. i was not lucky enough to hold him i was asked to lay him on a towel on the floor of the shop how pathetic hey. At least its done now
yup I had my boys done last year, not quite babies but when you teach a child to smile when they see the camera then try and tell a 2 year old NOT to smile it is difficult!
Ended up they weren't right, had a shadow so I had to go back and do it again! Lucky the rules are if they screw up, they have to redo them for free!
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so we had to get new photos last week. He was in foul mood and he had just chucked a tanty on the way to the camera shop so he just shut his mouth and glared at the guy with the camera. We got a perfect shot first go lol but the angry look in his eye should give any immigrations person the heebie jeebies.
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