I wish I was smart enough ...

...in preserving my old photos and in choosing the best photographer for my senior year photo.

It has been an age-old habit of the past to capture images and photographs to cherish precious memories forever. My family didn't own a digital camera until I was 21. So, there's a lot of my life that is virtual undigitally documented. But only few photos of mine were left and usable as of these days. I'm not yet smart enough at that time to put my photos in "acid-free" boxes when I left for Thailand. They were left in photo albums and the last time my sister checked them, most of them deteriorates because of moist. Technology rescued some of my photos. I requested my father to scan all my photos and saved it for me. He forgot to bring the CDs that saved my photos. I asked him to send some for me but that's equal to impossible because of the uber slow internet connection in our place. I missed my old photos . I missed looking at my old photos- how I posed when I'm in elementary, high school and in college years, my expressions, and the surroundings in which the photos were taken. It's funny, sometimes, as I rarely smile in most of my old photos – it is as if I've been told to stand really still and not move at all!

Take a look at my old photo when I'm in my senior year:

This may appear stodgy to you but this old photo which I successfully salvaged from being forever buried in a muddy place , is an amazing testament of my life's story that I graduated with flying colors in my high school.

Talking about senior year photo, I wonder why our advisers didn't take much effort to give us what we deserve-a senior picture that will capture what a lot of others can't see- the real US! They just settled for the cookie cutter photos that amateur photographers took. When I open my senior yearbook, I will always remember that I was once a gawky teenager! How I wish it's the opposite- someone with style, someone with class, someone trendy.

If I will handle a senior year in the future, I will give my student the best. I will choose a senior portrait photographer that will take photos that are so different, so fun, and so fresh that they could not be mistaken for traditional studio pictures that most seniors end up with.

If I will be given a chance to be 16 again (I get the concept from the movie 17 again ) and I have a senior year photo, I would choose a pose something like this:


Whaddya think?

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