Senior Portraits Gone Wrong...

Welcome friends - today I am going to give you a good laugh. As we are packing up we are going through all of our boxes to get rid of as much stuff as we can. Today I came across a box I haven't opened up since high school with a lot of good memory stuff in there. Great fodder for future posts. One thing I appreciated the most was some of the proofs from my senior portrait session. I didn't remember that I had taken all of the worst pictures out and separated them from the other proofs. I hadn't seen these in a long time and boy did they give us a good laugh around here. Here are the cream of the crop...

Now these images require some explaining - perhaps more than I can give. But I'll try.

First off, I love to dress up. Not in the sense of getting in high heels and a little dress but in the sense of dressing up like a character . So when I went for senior pictures and my photographer had a room full of costumes and let me put on what ever my 17 year old self wanted to - and then photographed me wearing it - that was a formula for trouble...
This is me dressed as some sort of Grecian - with a t-shirt underneath. Did I really think I'd give this one out?


This one looks like a floating head. Boy, it might have been nice if I had done my hair for my senior portraits. What's that about?



I have no explanation for this hat.





But these are the most puzzling to me...I didn't even remember putting this on. Why did she let me and why did she waste film on it? Did either of us think this was really even worth our time? Obviously.
I love this one - I should get it blown up. This one says "I'm a happy happy sailor boy ready for our next adventure!". Wow.

If you're wondering I did end up with a pretty cute senior portrait but I'm too lazy to find it right now...maybe later I'll have to post it because that's pretty hard to believe after seeing these, isn't it?