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He is an adorable little fellow.

its good fun. i recommend it.

Maz would have to travel a long while to get to any ocean, given that Denmark is almost entirely surrounded by the north sea.

Sea =/= ocean.

But all water is ultimately connected.

We got headshots done for our website at work. These are, undoubtedly, the worst pictures of me ever taken. And that's not an exaggeration. I look so uncomfortable, because the photographer was so freaking creepy...

Having spent so much time playing games, it was jarring when people started saying that in the office.

He was this older Eastern European with so much hair you could barely see his face, and he just had a really weird countenance. And I was less creeped out by the way he treated me (which was still creepy) than by the way he treated my female coworkers.

Going through the pictures, you can tell all the points he said something really awkward, because it's 3-5 pictures of them working even harder to hide their grimace.

I work for a university and he's the "official" photographer. We don't have to use him, but because of the contract he's way cheaper than other options. For our big events, we go ahead and pay someone else. But something like this, it wouldn't have been a justifiable cost for accounting.

We are in the process of getting these done here also, and boy did you sum it up nicely Aethien. Nail, meet hammer.

I am hating the idea of this, because I know no matter how I try to act nonchalant and relaxed, the photo will look like a big uptight doofus trying to look nonchalant and relaxed. And our photographer is one of the guys in the office who has been using a digital camera we've had for a few years. I actually toyed with the idea of getting them done professionally on the weekend, but that would involve spending my hard-earned money for a website that is going to be an embarrassment anyway.

I'll never understand these websites people throw together. I thought the purpose was to attract business, not cause people to run screaming from their computer monitors. Invest a little money. Have the website professionally developed and bring in a photographer to take not just head shots, but spend the day while people work and take photos to populate the website with. I think we're actually going to have stock photos of a conference room . . .

For the photos, go to the nearest park and shoot them under the trees (to avoid direct sunlight, so cloudy weather works too). The reason to go outside is that inside you likely have these monstrosities in the office and the vile light they give makes everyone look sick or dead, if you're lucky enough to work with more regular lightbulbs you're still ****** for photos since those are so orange in colour that they'll kill all skin tones.

The sun on the other hand has the tendency to make people look more alive but bright sun results in squinting eyes, shooting into the sun or very hard shadows that turn your face into a mess of black and white shapes because the camera can't handle the contrast.

Other than that you want people as comfortable and relaxed as possible (another thing where a few hours outside do a world of good). If you have all that it's a matter of not giving a **** what you look like for the person who's being photographed and taking lots and lots of photos so you can pick the best one.

I want to go fishing now.

Thumbs down from me for LSD. Never tried it myself, but a guy I went to school with pretty much had his life destroyed by it. He has had mental issues ever since that were certainly not apparent before hand.