Graduation Photos

I have my "rogues gallery" in my bedroom with a mix of photos of DS and family and DD and family - not their graduation ones. I like to see them all when I go to bed and when I get up. Soppy? Yes and why not? I love them all!

Regarding photos of deceased family members, there was a trend in Victorian times of having the family photographed with the deceased post mortem. The deceased would be propped up to look alive. I have no idea how it was accomplished considering rigor mortis sets in but do have a Google of “post mortem photography” to see what I mean.
The giveaway is that the deceased is in excellent focus because they don’t move.

I’ve got a few pictures of the family around and one graduation photo of one daughter because she gave me it. I have a treasured very tatty photo of my great uncle who was an Anzac and died as a very young man in 1916. There was no body and no grave because he was blown to bits, just a memorial in France so I kind of think it is good to have this. I have a few nineteenth century photos of various ancestors,too.

Esspee that is so interesting, very sad. You could almost feel their pain.

Esspee

Regarding photos of deceased family members, there was a trend in Victorian times of having the family photographed with the deceased post mortem. The deceased would be propped up to look alive. I have no idea how it was accomplished considering rigor mortis sets in but do have a Google of “post mortem photography” to see what I mean.
The giveaway is that the deceased is in excellent focus because they don’t move.

Oh what a sad photo. Their grief is almost palpable.

Dds are 41 and 43 and I’ve still got theirs up. And one from son in law’s master’s.

Niece in America recently finished her doctorate - we saw the outdoor ceremony on Zoom ?? but I was bitterly disappointed (?) to see that American doctorate hats are not those floppy velvet ones, like in pics of Henry VII! At grad ceremonies I’ve thought it’d almost be worth doing a PhD to have your picture taken in one of those!

The giveaway is that the deceased is in excellent focus because they don’t move.
That's interesting Esspee especially from a photographic point of view.

I find that many photos of my children taken in the 70s and 80s, even professional ones, have faded very badly. Having them restored professionally is very expensive so do any of you technically minded out there have any suggestions, please?

Our daughters are 44, 42 and 39 and their graduation photos are on the music cabinet in our new house. It wouldn't occur to me to take them down. Their more up-t0-date photos with oartners and children are in the kitchen.

We still have a graduation photo of our daughter (now 36) on the wall in the kitchen. We love the photo and are still proud of her degree and achievements. We will always keep it there, I expect. We also still have one very cute toddler photo of her in a frame on a book case, but upstairs. Why not?

I’ve done a photo wall in the spare bedroom it’s covered with photos of my seven grandkids, I would put them somewhere like that, so they are still up but just somewhere else.

I think there's no need to display these. Just take them down!

My photos are all in albums, wedding, graduations, family hols, old school photos.
In fact, when I cleared out my late parents bungalow, I found my graduation photo from 1977, I don’t think it ever saw the light of day.

My parents never had photographs of my sister and I on display. Not school pictures, not wedding pictures, not graduation pictures. AS I don't have children the question of having photographs of them or grandchildren hasn't arisen. (We did have a wedding photo in a frame for several years after we were married but that is 44 years ago now...I think the photo eventually faded or the frame broke...)

If these pictures bring you joy, keep them on display. If they don't, why not buy a nice album and put the pics in the album in a drawer. Or scan them to your computer? That way you have kept them, they are accessible and you can look at them and remember, but they are not cluttering up your walls or the top of your piano.

We have an 80cm wide ledge in our box bay window at the front, and have about 15 family photos displayed there. One is DS's doctorate of psychology graduation, which was only a few years ago. The others have been put away, but we have a wedding photo for each child, and ones of each of the grandchildren. When we have visitors, they have always asked us to explain who is who, so a useful talking point.

Yes!

If you like them, keep them up. If you no longer wish to display them, take them down. I never managed to display those of my DD so it would be odd to start now.
To Mum, they are part of our life’s sequence so there they stay.

I’ve never had any photos displayed - all in a box (except one) - went to a medium 15 years ago, who said ‘I have a gentleman here ( she described him) and you have his photo in your home - yes I use the one as a bookmark - description was spot on - he was my father, died 50 years ago

I honestly don't see the interest in graduation photos. They are invariably rather dull. If you don't love them, just take them down!

I think I'd digitise them so I could reduce the size, take similar shots (without the cap and gown!) of them now and put the 6 photos in a small multiframe. It's lovely for grandchildren to see their parents as youngsters.

am i odd? I have got paintings and pieces of embroidery (gifts) on my walls but no photos anywhere.

I have graduation photos up but they are on the landing upstairs.

It’s your house, it’s up to you! A redecoration is a good excuse to take them down if you don’t want them up any more. Put them in the spare bedroom or something?

I have photos of my two (in their mid 20s now) at different ages all over, but I still like looking at them.

No you are not odd @greenlady102, we are all different. . My friend likes to display mirrors of varying sizes.
I have a beach scene with boardwalk, and a mandala in my lounge, and the colosseum in the hallway. Trying desperately to keep the clutter down. I put all photos in albums when I downsized.

I have an digital photo frame. You download your favourite photos on to a memory stick or memory card and set it off to randomly change the photo every so often. I get to see a different face, funny photos, special landscapes and memories. The grandchildren love to try to identify everyone and if all the family photos are on there no one is offended that you haven’t put their photos up. When my mother was paralysed by a stroke and moved to a care home she lost her speech so we made a huge collage of all the family so she could point to them and it helped the staff get to know us all. I believe there are an app which can be used to brighten old photos, not sure what it is called.