Passport Photos

Jaren needed passport photos.
Requirements:

• Facing forward
• Looking at the camera
• Eyes open
• No red-eye
• Mouth closed
• No tongue showing
• Not overly smiling
• No hands or other extremities visible

SERIOUSLY! Have any of them tried to get a baby to fit all of these requirements at once? We only took about 200 shots before getting some to work. Much to my dismay Varian took some "practice" shots with him in outfits I didn't want to use; the white onesie because white on white really washes a person out :) and the red outfit because he had already spit up heaps in it that day and looked all crusty.

In the end this is the photo I voted for: (Look at that darling face!)

But Varian was worried that the head tilt would be too much and so he let the evil-post office lady talk him into this one:  

Oh it's ok, but it's not nearly as cute. He looks a little sickly with that white against white and double chin. Sigh. I'm such a sucker for photos and memories and records. I would have much preferred the first one. But I wanted to include on this post some of the blooper shots that I think are so hilarious or just plain darling. So I hope you enjoy: