Photo question

[SoxFan]

What's with the tilted heads?

http://www.manchesternh.gov/website/MayorandAldermen/Alderman/AldermanDetails/tabid/1039/Default.aspx

When they took our pics, I didn't realize that everyone was being told to do this. Frankly, 14 people with the same pose looks, well, a bit strange.

[redqueen]

1. Crap photographers probably telling them to do that.

I thought they mostly worked for school portrait places. x(

[SoxFan]

3. Not sure who took the pics

Maybe they were trying to hide the assortment of double chins...

[redqueen]

6. They do this for school pics a LOT.

It is sooo annoy.

[DS1]

2. I would guess it's a way to feign visual interest

Like, "Can I help you?

[SoxFan]

4. Maybe

But my pic (third one down) looks more like my cat giving me that "WTF" look.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My dear BlueDogDemocratNH!

Actually, I think they asked you all to do that because I think it is supposed to convey a dynamic attitude...

You know, kind of "go-getter" or something like that...

I don't think I would have noticed it if you hadn't pointed it out...

All of you look great, BTW!

:hi:

[Shell Beau]

7. It means you are important. I walk around that way all of the time!

:P

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. That must be how you got pregnant

[SteppingRazor]

8. I dunno, but can you introduce me to the Alderwoman for Ward 12?

:evilgrin:

[SoxFan]

9. I was waiting for someone to say that!

Her boyfriend is a libertarian activist and the secretary of the local Republican committee, but she's a Dem!

[SteppingRazor]

11. Well, she shouldn't prove too hard to pry away from him then...

of course, my wife might take a dim view of that. :P

[YDogg]

15. but she's a right-leaning Dem

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. It's an old bit some portrait photographers still use

Leaning into the camera makes you look... well, like you're leaning into the camera. Nah, really, it makes you look more "open" — or, at least that's the idea.

It's done more or less "right" in the fifth, sixth and seventh shots, and quite wrong in the first and third, where we see facsimiles of Zippy the Pinhead.

I'm pretty sure the fourth guy is Zippy.

[SCantiGOP]

13. look at the second guy

He refuses to tilt his head! He must be a maverick. I wish I could vote for him for President.

[SoxFan]

14. Oh, no you don't

Trust me on tis one!

I suspect you could deal with 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 12, and one of the at large guys, but don't even joke about Ted Gatsas!

[baldguy]

16. NH leans right?