Operation Passport Photo

There are many rules that you have to adhere to when taking a passport photo - even if you are a little baby! That makes for some very funny attempts at taking the right passport photo of Oscar, who as the only one in the family (currently) can get both a Danish and an Australian passport. This will of course change when the law of dual citizenship in Denmark comes into action on 1st September this year, when the whole family can then happily apply for dual citizenship and Australian passports.

However, as we are going on holidays later this year, we do need to have a passport made for Oscar.

Back to the passport photo rules...
* the picture must have good likeness to the child
* the picture must be taken from the front
* format should be 35 x 45mm
* head must be between 30-36mm from chin to hairtop
* you cannot have more than one person in the picture, so Oscar cannot sit on our lap to have his photo taken.
* the person must be centered in the photo
* the picture cannot be too light or too dark
* there cannot be any shadows on the face or the background
* the person cannot wear a hat
* eyes cannot be covered by hair or be closed
* the mouth needs to be closed

Well, that's easy!! :-S

Here are some of our (funny) attempts...

Woo-hoo, hands in the air

What's that over there?

Looking right at you mummy! (unfortunately with open mouth)

This chair is moving!!

Ha ha ha mummy :-)

What? I can't talk?!

This chair is not that comfortable...

OK, I'm looking at the camera, closing my mouth - and
mummy managed to get a shadow on the wall behind me!

Is that Bailey over there?

So as you can see, it was a bit of a task. I managed to get a couple of good pictures, but when we tried to transfer to a memory stick so that Julia could photoshop part of the high chair out of the picture, the images somehow got lost :-(

So one of these coming days we'll do a take 2 on passport photo, as we need to have them finished by 22nd April...