Armpits, Torsos, and Photos

The following 6 photos have a theme...

I was successfully and easily cropped from each of those pictures. Some time ago, one of the above people commented, "Hey, I needed a picture of myself. I found one of us and just cropped you out. You're really easy to crop." I'm not sure what the appropriate response is..."thanks?" or ..."you're welcome?" In any case, here are the pictures from which I was successfully cropped...

Christmas 06

Christmas 08

Shanon's Wedding

New Braunfels Thanksgiving

Badminton Tournament 07

Paul's and Heather's wedding.

Recently, I needed a passport-size photo of myself. I thought, "No problem, people say I am croppable, this will be easy." I quickly realized this whole croppable thing does not work in my favor. Each time I found a picture that could be cropped and used as a passport-size photo, my face was neatly framed by armpits and torsos...

Armpits and Torsos '06

Armpits, Shoulders, Hand '08

Armpit, Torso, Antlers, the UPS Store

Armpit

Torso and Shoulder

Armpit, Hand, Face

Torso

Armpit and I look naked

I realize I could try to zoom a little closer and eliminate some pits. The problem is that at a certain point zooming becomes awkward. You become a floating face like the kid in the yearbook that was clearly absent on picture day. No one wants to be that misproportioned huge-face kid everyone laughs at when reminiscing about the past. Alas, I guess I will choose to embrace the armpit and torso face-framing, and be grateful that my friends have nice pits.