My future wife and I - 1969
I was in love with the pretty blonde girl even then, at 14 (I may have still been 13 when this was taken).
Back in the day, school photographers put the tall guys at the back in the middle, the shorter guys on the end. If you were really short, they put you on the end of the middle' row with the plain Janes -- note the gender symmetry.
Middle of the front row was always reserved for the prettiest girls.
[Hard to know if the photographer was actually conscious of his compositional rules, or rather this was "just the way it's done.]"
Still, after many years of dogged perseverance, she married me.
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My future wife and I - 1969
I was in love with the pretty blonde girl even then, at 14 (I may have still been 13 when this was taken).
Back in the day, school photographers put the tall guys at the back in the middle, the shorter guys on the end. If you were really short, they put you on the end of the middle' row with the plain Janes -- note the gender symmetry.
Middle of the front row was always reserved for the prettiest girls.
[Hard to know if the photographer was actually conscious of his compositional rules, or rather this was "just the way it's done.]"
Still, after many years of dogged perseverance, she married me.
**********
Also best viewed at full resolution.