Comments on: Portrait of a Senior

By: jenny

jenny — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:19:26 +0000

churlita: thanks! and these are the unretouched ones (aside from the black 'censored' bars). fortunately, the bugs avoided our faces.
cheryl: the poo daisy totally cracked us all up. it's the corniest pose ever. then i made her wear it in her hair.:)
student teacher: indeed, i was one of those girls. and thanks!
nina: you do realize that i am originally from WI, don't you? but even after 30 years there, i still couldn't build up a tolerance to mosquitoes. my blood is like brandy to them.

By: nina

nina — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:17:16 +0000

Welcome to our state! Now you know what we’re up against DAILY! But, they say the flooding will pay off — it’ll send the little buggers dwonstream. To Illinois. Let me suggest malaria netting and ear plugs and Burts Bees to wipe off the blood when you swat someone or yourself. And keep your cats home.
(V.nice pics.)

By: student teacher

student teacher — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:50:33 +0000

So you were one of those tie and cardigan girls?
Loved this post.

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:11:00 +0000

Awesome post and pics. My favorite is the poo-daisy. That way Kelsey will have the best of all worlds: a cute photo AND a story to tell about how awful her senior-portrait experience was.

By: churlita

churlita — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:18:15 +0000

They turned out great. There are no signs of trauma or mosquito bites anywhere.

By: jenny

jenny — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:59:32 +0000

shari: you know what? a couple of glasses of scotch and i might be open to swapping senior photos. i'll see your purple plaid and raise you a mullet!
finn: thanks! and you're right - if i'd had a full tank of blood pumping through my veins, i might have won a pulitzer.
delmer: OMG - that would have been the best photo ever! we would have died from DDT poisoning immediately thereafter, but it would have been worth it.
sir: oh, i wish you hadn't said anything. she's so very sensitive about her lack of eyeballs. you know how teenagers are.
sarah: i kind of wish that fashion faux-pas of mine had been lost in time. so you might be better off with no senior portraits.
don: blurry jesus is going to be the name of my new band. will you sing lead vocals?
dave2: they came out of nowhere! we kept trying to swat them away, but to no avail.

By: Dave2

Dave2 — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:10:38 +0000

Apparently you were unable to Photoshop out the black box that was hovering around with the mosquitos… nasty business, those floating black boxes!

By: Don

Don — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:06:03 +0000

Those are nice. When I was a senior in ’76, informal shots were just becoming the thing, so I saved tux money and let my mom take my picture in the back yard. She stood too close and didn’t focus the camera very well and I had long hair and my patented self-conscious seventeen year old boy smile and looked like a blurry Jesus, if Jesus ever wore a grandmotherly flower-pattern long-sleeve shirt before he grew that beard.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:21:06 +0000

Those turned out really good! I didn’t take senior pictures. Sometimes I wish I had and other times I’m glad I didn’t because my fashion sense was pretty weird back in high school.

By: You can call me, 'Sir'

You can call me, 'Sir' — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:36:56 +0000

I hesitate to say this because I don’t want to offend, but…well…the black thing over her eyes kind of makes her look like a cylon from the original 70s version of Battlestar Galactica. I’m sure surgery can clear this up, though. I mean, I assume. God, fate can be so cruel sometimes.