LENS-ARTISTS CHALLENGE #183 – Memorable Events – ‘staches, beards, and things (?!?!)

A-C leads. Hmmm. GREAT theme, WELL executed by A-C.

I was thinking (always dangerous): Successes? Failures? Family gatherings? Whilst browsing my massive image archive I came across numerous BEARDS and MOUSTACHES. Well, why not.

This one qualifies for FIRST ON CARD, unlike the Last On Card photo challenges. It is one of the first half dozen photos in my library. Circa 1999, it’s a .BMP file (bitmap), not a .JPG. Very low resolution, 320×240, it may have been taken with an early desk cam device. I dunno.

I havn’t ALWAYS had a beard or mustache. Maybe 40-50% of the time since 1970?

Oops! Cuteness photo. Someone else’s facial hair, early 2006. The next one is circa 1972. It’s a digitized print, I don’t have the EXIF data:

The resolution is getting a little better. The following is even older than the last one, digitized again, ‘rebel without a cause’ perhaps. A possible submission for a movie part in a motorcycle gang. No call back, I never applied again. Your loss Hollywood. 😱

Worthy of a WANTED poster IMHO. 😂

Finally, we go full blown Grizzly Adams/Jeremiah Johnson (who?). I had this beard, more or less, for eleven years:

Once upon a time I had HEAD HAIR too!!! Centuries ago.

FINALLY (really finally, I know this is gripping stuff), the handlebar/Fu Manchu variation, circa Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwellian!):

I read that either moustache or mustache is an acceptable spelling. For some reason moustache comes off the fingertips, though autocorrect begs to differ.

Have a good year.