Who The Heck Is That?

[barry1010]

My new driving licence has arrived at last - my first photo licence.
How anyone could identify me from the photo is beyond me - the photo is very dark but if you look really hard you can sort of see a face - that of a black woman. I am a white man.

Anyone else not look like their driving licence photo?

[ToraToraTora]

scan it in and we'll judge.

[aelmpvw]

black woman? not been a cock up at the dvla has there?

[Tilly2]

Did they get the photo from your passport?

[barry1010]

No, Tilly, my passport expired a few years ago so I sent in a clear photo.

[Buenchico]

I recently renewed my passport, using one of the photobooths that provides you with a code to include with a digital application. Despite several attempts to improve the photo I was getting from the machine (which was a bit tricky as I had to remove my glasses and therefore couldn't see too well at the time), I ended up with an appalling photo that seems to be centred on my bald pate, with me looking downwards.

I half-hoped that it would get rejected by the Passport Agency but I'm now stuck with it in my passport for the next ten years and when, next year at age 70, I have to switch from a paper driving licence to a photocard one, it'll get used for that too :(

[barry1010]

I've scrutinised it again and it is definitely me, just so very dark you can't see my features - except for my drooping jowls.

[davebro]

Mine is definitely me but it looks like a police mugshot. Why do they say you shouldn't smile?

[Ken4155]

When i saw my photos for my bus pass i was shocked. "That surly faced so and so can't be me" i thought. I'm such a ray of light (keep your thoughts to yourselves, please). Problem was, the instructions in the booth tell you to keep your head within the red square and the only way to do that is by looking down at the red square and do not smile. Hence the surly expression.

[ToraToraTora]

did you not supply the picture yourself Barry?

[Khandro]

The reason you look like a black woman barry is because the DVLA have been told they must be more 'inclusive' :0)

[Hopkirk]

Mine looks as though a child has drawn a black felt tip line around me.

[aelmpvw]

i think mine looks like george clooney but doris doesn't agree

[sunny-dave]

Which of the two do you resemble ael?

https://i.pinimg.com/474x/f0/96/27/f0962763fdea8e49c748dd764a363280--bowl-cut-ugly-duckling.jpg

[barry1010]

TTT, I did. It was a very clear photo with a light background.

[aelmpvw]

the main shot dave, only without the hair and the chiselled chin

[gness]

My most awful official photo was following the theft of my passport in Brussels. A mad dash from the station to the Irish Embassy for emergency documentation in the worst storm ever did nothing for my hair and mascara.
I offered the man taking my photograph every last Euro I had to airbrush the photo. He wouldn't. What was worse was that nobody questioned whether or not it was me in the photo. :-(

[Peter Pedant]

o god mascara yes I go from Dusy Springboard to Panda eyes as soon as it rains

altho one is NOT keen on govt surveillance, I was quite impressed by the way the revlevant govt computers hand-shook and kept track of people
also they handshake with the tax computers so punters watch out

[piper107]

its not suppose to look like a normal photo it a digital facial scan like in your passport its for computers to identify not you actually