I needed to provide a brief self-introduction accompanied by a photograph for the faculty website (FEHD, Faculty of Education and Human Development). At first, I submitted two photographs as required, namely A and B here for clarity, and mentioned that I preferred A. However, the faculty assistants (I assume it was them) ended up choosing B and replied that they couldn’t tell which one I preferred since they couldn’t see the filenames. I then asked them to use a new photograph, C, which I attached. It turned out that this one looks perfect to me.
Bblythe took many photographs for me to consider. She said that C doesn’t look like me and that I appear too “polite” in it. I answered: “True! But don’t you see? That’s precisely what a profile photograph is supposed to look like.”