{"id":73,"date":"2024-01-26T19:52:45","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T19:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomasbrucestudio.wordpress.com\/?p=73"},"modified":"2025-03-13T18:21:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T18:21:44","slug":"we-love-your-smile-but-please-dont-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/we-love-your-smile-but-please-dont-here\/","title":{"rendered":"We love your smile, but please don&#8217;t here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">we love your smile, really! But you can not for your photo: <strong><em>No Smiling in Foreign Passport Photos<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"11801\" src=\"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Straight-face-UK-passport.jpg\" alt=\"We love your smile \n\" class=\"wp-image-11801\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;NO SMILING!&#8221;<br><br>At first, I thought it was odd that smiling was not allowed in foreign passport images (it is still allowed in <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">US passport images). Then I heard that many foreign governments are using facial recognition software <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">to catch the bad guys, and they will often scan your passport photo to put it in their system. A smile <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">distorts the face and inhibits the software&#8217;s ability to find the correct match.<br><br>Now the question becomes&#8230; if the rest of the world is utilizing this method of making us safer, why isn&#8217;t <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">the US government doing the same thing? Obviously, there are people waaay smarter than me that might <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">have an acceptable answer to that question, I just haven&#8217;t met them yet (maybe someone can answer it <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">here for me).<br><br>One way or the other, for all my Canadian and European friends needing passport photos, citizenship <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">photos, immigration photos, or DV Lottery photos&#8230; NO SMILING!<br><br>Bring your unhappy face to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomasbruce.com\/\">Thomas Bruce Studio of Photography<\/a>\u00a0in St Petersburg and we&#8217;ll promise not <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">to make you laugh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-passports","tag-international-passport-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11803,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/11803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}