{"id":9392,"date":"2024-06-20T15:53:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T15:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/?p=9392"},"modified":"2025-05-07T17:24:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T17:24:46","slug":"have-passport-will-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/have-passport-will-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Have Passport, Will Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">Tis\u2019 the season for looking ahead and making those summer travel plans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">For many, that includes either updating their current passport, or applying for a new one. Passport photos can be tricky; most guidelines are strict and&nbsp;<em>very<\/em>&nbsp;persnickety. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">For example, the standard U.S. passport photo is 2\u00d72; the Canadian one is 2\u00d72-3\/4 and must have the studio name, address and date either written or stamped on the back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Most are shot on a plain white background, and NO country seems to want you to look happy when you cross the border\u2014\u201cneutral\u201d expression&nbsp;<em>only<\/em>!&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Here at Thomas Bruce Studio in St. Petersburg, FL, we do passport photos for&nbsp;<em>all<\/em>&nbsp;countries. And we\u2019ve had a run of them\u2014particularly Canadian ones\u2014in the last few weeks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Not sure why that is, but we\u2019re happy to accommodate!&nbsp; Several AAA offices around the county send all of their international passport clients to us, as well as the Canadian help desk and UPS stores of St. Petersburg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Our success rate is 99.9%\u2013 occasionally you do get that one agent that rejects a photo for unknown reasons; probably a slow day at the bureau. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">There is nothing glamorous about a passport photo; Ann Landers used to say \u201c<em>anyone who looks like their passport photo is too sick to travel\u201d<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">And that\u2019s why I always tell our clients, \u201ccome back and let me do something&nbsp;<em>nice<\/em>&nbsp;for you! This is really not the best example of our award-winning portraiture!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">But it gets them over the border.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasbruce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/PP-Blog.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thomasbruce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/PP-Blog-300x140.jpg\" alt=\"PP Blog\" class=\"wp-image-3289\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Thomas Bruce Studio is located in St. Petersburg, FL. We specialize in fine portraiture of families,&nbsp;high school seniors, executive headshots\u2014 and passport photos. For more information, please contact 727.577.5626 or visit www. thomasbruce.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11,15,16],"class_list":["post-9392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-passports","tag-international-passport-photographer","tag-st-petersburg-passport-photographer","tag-st-petersburg-passport-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9392","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11442,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9392\/revisions\/11442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}