What is it with boys and pictures? [Part 2]



  1. Ask a stranger to take your picture.
  2. Hold your arm out and take your own picture.
  3. Use your camera timer. 
Each of these comes with its own list of concerns: 

Option #1: Ask a stranger to take your picture.

Dear strangers, 
Thank you.


Option #3: Use your camera timer.




But I digress. 


The first shot of me looked like this: 

Not great, I'll admit. 


But, again, I digress. 
This was shot number two:


Enter photo number three. The big winner.

And...my good side!

What is it with boys and pictures? 



Even more suspicious???

Creepster stare.


I finally got this out of him: 




  1. I struggle with this everywhere we go. We have mastered to selfie - but sometimes you're right you want more than a cute head-shot. Strangers usually take a photo of the sidewalk, zoom in so close that it's just disgusting.

    I have so many pictures of an uncooperative Steve - except he is the one to ask the stranger and I am the one who gets extremely embarrassed.

  2. This is so true! Every time I have a stranger take a picture I think of European Vacation, and how the Griswold's camera was stolen when they asked a stranger to take their picture in the fountain!!

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  4. I love it! And it is so true - I have a number of male friends who are completely incapable of smiling naturally for a picture without throwing in a last minute spaz-out. Heaven forbid if there are several of them in it together...

  5. This post is HILARIOUS. So hilarious that it spawned a companion post on my blog. Check it out.

    On taking your own picture... the part about it looking like all you did was change your shirts cracked me up. And is all too true.

    One caution on the chin-lowering technique. You must be sure that the lowering of the chin is not done SO much as to create the double chin. There's a balance. Find the line and toe it!

    I love that it took Jordan twice as many times for a decent pic as it took you. But I have to say, the other ones are hilarious enough to save...if for nothing else than your blog readers' amusement.

    Great post. I suggest dragging a friend on all outings with you. A friend who does not get to be IN the pictures but is required to take all the pictures. Perhaps your friend Jeff Peerman would be a good candidate for this? Just a thought...

    If nothing else, you can have kids and train them to photograph you properly.


  6. Okay, first of all, I agree with Audra...this post is hilarious! I laughed out loud at the Creepster Stare.

    Secondly, take it form someone who has been married to a boy for 10 years--it doesn't change!! If anything, it gets worse. Lately, he has been freaking out when I tell him I'm going to ask someone to take our picture. Really?! BUT, I will say that I've learned to laugh more often than I get frustrated over the past few years. I mean, it IS pretty funny when V photo-bombs with his evil chipmunk face. He does far too many other things that irritate me more than being a goofy picture taker. ;)

    And, third, we started doing the take-pictures-of-each-other-thing a while back, too! I think pictures of places are boring if people aren't in them. So most of them are me (or me and babies) posing. I have to MAKE him do it if I want him in it. Although, I will say, babies are a good way to make boys take better (cute) pictures. So you have that to eventually look forward to. :)

  7. haha, at least you got some smiles! pictures with Sam is like PULLING TEETH! i feel your pain.

