Passport size photo…

If you asking me for a photo… yes sure I have many…. But all are soft copies…. And if u wants a hard copy then sorry childhood photos is the only thing I have….. This morning I was asked to submit some documents and 4 passport size photos… this sounds easy but it was not…. I cud not find a single passport size photo…. all the ones I had were more than 2 yrs old and I don’t look the same any more…. One I had was the latest one but it was just a single copy so of no use… and due to this digital age, dint have negatives… so I cud just develop them and get some extra copies… This all seemed so impossible…. My office hrs were such that I could not go before office because at 9am none of the photo shops are open nor could I go at night as I reached home at 9pm, same all the shops shut down…. There seemed no way, how I could manage to get 2 passport size photos…. 


The agent would remind me every day about my photos missing from the documents to submit… so finally I decided to go to office bit late and click my snaps… the whole idea of clicking a snap sounded so weird… first of all it was suppose to be a good snap where u look neat and tidy secondly unlike other snaps where you are busy giving poses and capturing special moments with family and friends. Here u had to have a very formal photo where you cant smile as you wish, even your smile is measured and if u don’t smile the photographer would force you to do so… again the hair do had to be good, as u just cant go as u wanna…. I was not liking this one bit but had no choice… so finally I decided to give up thinking about it and thought of just give it a shot…. 


Today I see myself being more particular about how I looked and how is my hair… why are my eyes looking so sleepy and on and on…… but finally the snap was clicked and I asked them for an urgent delivery as I was in hurry… it costed much higher than the normal but I had no choice… when I got my new passport size snaps photos…I was not much happy about it and so I just asked the photographer why the snap was not so good and that I dint like it.. and it could be much better…. The answer I got was to mean an answer….. it was “ madam you want an urgent photo and you also expect it to be good…. How is that possible….”. this made me wonder what photography skills and an urgent photo have to do…? as any other person I was there sitting for a photo.... in front of the same lights and also followed every instructions given by him about my smile being too small and too big and shit…. This taught me a lesson …. 


And now I asked my friend to get his SLR so that we could click some good snaps… thanks to my non professional photographer friend and his armature skills that now I have much better…. No no wrong word… I have superb photos clicked and the best I could do for the professional photographer was I took the snaps clicked by my friend to him for developing….and I got 40 odd croppies done so for next at least a month I will not have to click passport size photos…..