Do good photos of you exist? and news article question...

I have instructed my family to use my kindergarten picture for my obituary. While it has faded somewhat with time, it's still the best photo of me in existence.

There are a few good, non-snapshot photos of me. Most suck. Usually I’m the one behind the camera and when I’m not, the person taking the photos usually doesn’t know how to compose a decent photo. I think you’re right though that most people just don’t have them. My brother’s fiancé just passed away somewhat unexpectedly last week and I was a little surprised that my brother didn’t have very many good clear photos of her. 

This is my very favorite photo of dh. He’s happy and has a big smile. Typically he never smiles in a posed photo, or if he does it’s barely there. So I cropped this.

Later I came upon a great candid photo of him by himself. Had I remembered it, that would have been a good substitute.

Every photo of me is outstanding!

I can only recall three or four good photos of me taken over the last ten years. The one that immediately comes to mind is of my niece and me at my friend's party. My friend has collected military hats for many years, and whenever he has a party, everyone gets given a different hat to wear. So while I look good in the photo, I really hope no-one ever uses it in a news article, because I’m wearing an SS officer's cap!   

My cousin died very unexpectedly last fall. He was 36, single, was living with his parents, and he just died in his sleep. It was awful.

The last time I'd seen him was at a family event about 18 months before, and my husband, who is an excellent photographer with professional equipment, was taking posed and candid family photos. I looked through the files from that day to see if hed taken one of Roland, and he had--it was fantastic, nice and clear and close, and Roland had a huge smile, it just captured his whole self perfectly. I posted it on Facebook later that day. My aunt, Roland's mom, shared it on her FB page a few hours later.

When I went to the funeral, they had used that picture on the memorial card and ended the photo slide show with it, among other uses. I was so GLAD that a picture like that existed! I think like you said, often there just aren't any good pictures of people, especially recent pictures. We certainly never dreamed, when my husband took that picture, what would happen, but we were so GLAD to have it. It just really confirmed for both of us what we already believed, that photos are important and can be a real comfort.

You made me realize I should start an album in iPhotos labeled "obituary photos" to make it easy for everyone. Every time I see a good photo of myself, I'll crop and edit it to be ready. 

In the last year I've been happy with a couple of relaxed, candid photos taken by someone else and really appreciate getting sent them. 

I've seen other, better photos of Scott Beigel so assume someone hastily grabbed that one off a public social media account to go with the story.

When my sister got married her grandma in law asked the photographer to take a nice head shot of just her. She wanted it for her obituary. She was all dressed up and hair done nice. And yes it was the photo they used when she passed a few years later.

I've thought the opposite of the missing person 'posters' of women. Often teens or in their young 20s and they are so angled and pout lipped that they are unrecognizable. They will sometimes have 2 photos one perfect selfie and one no makeup straight on and they don't even resemble each other. But if there is just that angled selfie I would never recognize that person, I have 2 look twice when my FB friends update with a wierd angled selfie.

Thanks for posting this. I may have completely changed my view on this. I feel that I have a couple of good, recent pictures of myself. Occasionally I will send a picture of me that I like, to my dd and tell her - this is a good one for CNN !
But, perhaps, I should have one that more shows who I am. I like that idea. Thanks.

I wonder the same thing, especially when someone is missing. Sometimes those photos are so poor that if the person was standing next to the photo I wouldn’t recognize them.

I have long instructed my family that if I disappear or on the news for some unprovoked crime spree that they are to use a wedding photo as those are my favorite pictures of me, but recently someone else got a nice picture of me so I need to let my family know they should use that one instead. I love the idea of having a photo folder on the computer, I am totally going to do that.

I am so glad that I am not the only person that thinks about stuff like that. 😁

There are plenty of photos of me to choose from 😊

I read in that article the the photo was a screen shot from a YouTube video. 

good luck finding a good obit pic of me. lol

There are not many decent photos of me, as I am usually the person taking the photos, and I also don't like most photos of me. I have been more aware recently of having my photo taken, taking advantage of photographers at places where we travel, like the lovely ones from our last cruise, and some from the photographer at the resort we stayed at on Crete.

I'm a teacher so I have a new photo taken every year. LOL.

As for random snapshots- nope. There are very few of me because I'm always behind the camera.