Comments on: Answer to yesterday’s question (partial)

By: sgazzetti

sgazzetti — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:34:57 +0000

You’re quite right about the 55% thing, Gwynne. I posted those (U.S.) specifications just to remind us all of how (theoretically) meticulous they want you to be. In applying for something like seven passports, I’ve never seen a bureaucrat actually whip out a ruler and check to make sure that things are exactly as specified. These photos were taken for Adam’s Polish passport, which has entirely different specs, and they’re pre-cropping.

Anyway, all three passport applications were filed last Friday, and none of the photos provoked so much as a raised eyebrow.

By: gwynne

gwynne — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 03:32:37 +0000

In that lower rightest most photo, I believe Adam’s eyes are below the 55% mark. ;-) You’ve gotta send them all in, maybe one per page so those bureaucrats can flip pages and watch Adam squirm. That is priceless!

By: jdog

jdog — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:37:24 +0000

I think you should have just sent all of them. Let them pick.

By: Michael N.

Michael N. — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:25:34 +0000

Surprisingly Slovenia’s passport photo rules are even tougher. I just finished filling out my application the other day.

By: sgazzetti

sgazzetti — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:27:09 +0000

These are for Adam's Polish passport. His U.S. one is a long-since done deal. The Jeż will require five photos, three for Polish passport and two for U.S.

By: DarkoV

DarkoV — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:53:26 +0000

Mr. Sgazzetti,

You’ve got to be kidding!!!? Adam’s so damn adorable, even the ex-Stasi clericals working at the U.S. Department of State’s Passport Office will be heard loudly oozing “Ohhhhhhh” while they’re pasting/melting his photo into his passport.

In fact, I think the whole sheet of photos should be included in his passport. For good measure.

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:07:14 +0000

Seriously, what are the odds a photo studio would have any better luck with this kid? Slim to nil, I suspect. This reminds me so much of the photo elves stories in Santaland Diaries.

Third row, first photo on the left: “You talkin’ to me?”