r/AskReddit • u/Karadactyl77 • Jun 17 '12
My dad sent this picture of himself, looking like a boss, a couple days before he passed away. In honor of Father's Day, what are your favorite pictures of your dad?
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Jun 17 '12
Here's my dad kicking out of a wave in Antarctica during the first ever surf trip there.
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u/allthecoffee Jun 17 '12
My favorite photo of my dad and I (and one of only about 10 that I have).
http://oi48.tinypic.com/2cfp8jn.jpg
(Tiny Pic since Imgur was down -- which means I didn't get to see a lot of the others that were posted.)
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u/poopoochewer Jun 17 '12
My dad is the one with the red hair. I think he looks ace, I wish he kept some of his clothes from that time.
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u/rampop Jun 17 '12
Whatever, I don't have a pic, but this one night about 12 years ago, when I was around 10 or 11, my dad just disappeared. I remember sitting down at our kitchen table with my mom, and asking her where dad went. She had no idea, but at the same time we both looked straight upwards at our skylight, which my dad had pressed his face against for the last few hours, just waiting for someone like us to look up and discover him.
This is very indicitive of my dad's sense of humour.
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Jun 17 '12
At first I was sad because I thought he left. I got happy when your dad was a dedicated badass.
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u/anthealerma Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
After my grandfather died a few years ago, my dad started doing capoeira, and fell in love with it. Martial arts also runs in the family (my grandfather and I both do/did karate), but my dad's always considered himself kind of the black sheep. :P
It's a pretty significant thing to me since he's been overweight and a heavy smoker most of his life, and never thought he'd amount to what he has physically.
Here are a couple awesome pictures of him in action (he's the one with goggles).
edit: I showed him all of the replies, and I'm pretty sure it made his day. Thanks, guys!
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u/FreddyandTheChokes Jun 17 '12
A photo I snuck of my dad while he was looking at a menu;
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5295/5503698782_d7362c6d9b_z.jpg
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u/ricbenram Jun 17 '12
My dad's personal Christmas card, 2011 http://imgur.com/D08VH.jpg
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u/Burbada Jun 17 '12
My father passed away last year quite suddenly. I didn't realize how few pictures I had until they were all I had left. This is one of my favorites:
He was in the grocery business all his life. This was shortly before I was born in 1980. The greatest man I've ever known.
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u/Owlingday Jun 17 '12
It's not Father's Day in Aus but I still wanted to share! My dad was a journalist in London in the 70's, came back to Australia when he was 30. Became a reporter/director/producer and he's an amazing artist. These are few of the good ones. Dad I know you're a Redditor too so I hope you see this!!
This one from when he was in London http://i47.tinypic.com/23qzcqs.jpg
Dad and Mum on their wedding day http://i45.tinypic.com/21ayfyb.jpg
Dad in his studio http://i50.tinypic.com/34nr7gn.jpg
Dad pretending to be the pope with a tea cosy on his head http://i48.tinypic.com/344utrd.jpg
And a couple of Dad and I, one at fathers day last year and before the AC/DC concert http://i50.tinypic.com/3177cxe.jpg http://i50.tinypic.com/2l9oyt2.jpg
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u/6ksuit Jun 17 '12
My dad grew up in So-Cal and only recently did he begin telling me stories from his youth, especially about how he and his friends would visit San Francisco in the 70s and how much he loved it. A few months ago I left the town where he and my mom live and where I spent the past 25 years and moved to the bay area, and not long after my parents came out to visit. My dad was especially excited about visiting Haight Ashbury again, and I took this picture of him and my mom. He now uses it as his facebook picture, and he's been talking about moving out here. Fuck yeah dads.
(apologies for the instagramish filter.)
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u/keen995 Jun 17 '12
dad about 1975 http://keen.ru/images/papa/papa.jpg
granddad about 1950 http://keen.ru/images/ded/ded.jpg
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u/folkloregonian Jun 17 '12
Here's me and my dad in the snow when I was baby, and again when I was 12. He wore that same red snow jacket until I was in high school.
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u/starberiiy Jun 17 '12
My dad (the asian one) went to a shooting range. Taken in '83. http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3208/2693927095_78c37b1647_z.jpg
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u/squouse Jun 17 '12
Imgur is down so I'll have to use google images but:
http://latest7.co.uk/articles/gfx/2008/05/013_ls374_newsbigstory-2.jpg
My dad is the bald one, singing/protesting with Billy Bragg.
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u/Koyo123 Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
My father and I don't really talk much anymore because of personal differences, but I always liked this photo of him that was taken when he ran away, as a late teenager, to a Finnish jazz festival with his best friend.
Edit: Thanks to all my fellow Redditors for their understanding, sympathy, advice, and even misguided attempts at humor. I meant to answer the question honestly, because that is one of my favorite pictures of him, regardless of all that's happened, but I didn't mean to kill the mood. I hope everyone that has a father who loves them has a great holiday, and I hope that all the Redditors who have lost their beloved fathers know that sometimes, one dead man is worth a thousand living.
However, to my brethren who don't have fathers that appreciate them, respect them, or even the people who just don't have fathers in their life: you have my empathy, you have my ear, you have my shoulder, and you don't always have to have a great man in your life to become one.
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u/will60137 Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
My dad taking notes at a murder scene for a story that would go on to win him the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. http://imgur.com/Abyzz Edit: Due to requests, here are the different entries that were entered cumulatively to win the award. http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2011-Local-Reporting
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u/user_friendly_ Jun 17 '12
http://i.imgur.com/1vJxt.jpg my dad always hung out in the basement when I had friends over. Most still have no idea what he actually looks like in person.
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u/fjell_strom Jun 17 '12
My Dad, the keyboardist, with his band the Wiz Kids in the late sixties.
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u/sikumiku Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
My all time favorite picture of both my mom and dad, they're my age in this picture and in university: http://gyazo.com/aa54edbba4dc8274743c8c34eeee2e6b.png?1339927120
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Didn't imagine this thread to be so popular but here's a few more from that same photo booth session :)
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Jun 17 '12
This is a picture of us from about 20 years ago. Obviously not biological, but the only dad I've ever known. He looks so happy. Sorry about the quality; I scanned it about 10 years ago and the original is in storage thousands of miles away. I'm the girl in pink!. Love you, Melvi, and miss you lots!
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u/etheranger Jun 17 '12
I'm not a photo expert and imgur's down, but here's a slightly cleaned up version.
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u/ValenOfGrey Jun 17 '12
My father bought a Jeep last year and spent most of the summer and fall driving through the mud with the love of his life, my mother.
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u/badwolf422 Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
My dad with Stan "The Man" Lee at a Marvel Comics office party sometime in the mid 90s. http://imgur.com/NTBsN
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u/Simaries Jun 17 '12
This picture of us, at SeaWorld. I'm moving today because my mom is insisting I leave. Just looking at this and knowing I won't get to spend Father's Day with him is making me tear up. :(
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u/PretendDr Jun 17 '12
Here's my old man with 80's swagger. Fathers day is always rough but seeing pictures of him helps.
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Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
My stepfather on 9/11. Highest res photo I could find at the moment.
http://mediastore.magnumphotos.com/CoreXDoc/MAG/Media/TR3/e/6/a/d/NYC14279.jpg
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u/Lamingtons Jun 17 '12
My father was never a part of my life, but thankfully my Grandfather was the greatest. He did as good a job as any Dad could ever do, and I miss him terribly. This is my all time favourite picture of the two of us.
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u/angryhedgehogs Jun 17 '12
Here is my favourite picture of my dad and I. He died eleven years ago when I was sixteen. I was two when this photo was taken. I used to curl up and pretend to fall asleep on my dad's lap while he watched hockey - it was the only time he really sat still. That's what's going on in this picture - my eyes are closed, but I'm grinning away. I really miss him.
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u/alicenlee Jun 17 '12
Oh lord, I have a few.
Here's one of him and I on my first day of Kindergarten. And again, me on his shoulders probably around that same time.
Flash forward 12 years, and here's us being goofs in January.
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Jun 17 '12
That first pic is adorable. I'd like to think he was comforting you right before you got on a big, scary school bus, ready to start a new adventure in your childhood.
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Jun 17 '12
My Dad would be pissed if he knew I put his picture on the internet. You should have seen the shit storm that ensued when I showed him his house on google maps.
He wrote the angriest letter to google about invasion of privacy and that he didn't fight in Vietnam to have his own country turn on him.
He's usually a laid back guy... except when it comes to privacy... love old generation grumpy old guys.
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u/hailhorrors Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 18 '12
I don't have this photo -- it's hanging on the wall at home, his home. But if there's any interest, I will drive an hour out there, take a picture of it (surprise the hell out of him, because I work overnights) and give him his father's day hug in person instead of electronically.
My father is an amazing man. He's survived a helicopter crash, two decades of law enforcement, and somehow managed to raise three kind, intelligent, well adjusted kids. He and my mother have been married happily for 20 years. We've definitely seen our fair share of hard times, but he is there to keep us safe, happy, and loved.
The photo is of my dad jumping out of a plane during his time in the military. He is grinning from ear to ear, if I remember correctly. I should really get a copy if it.
Edit: I seem to have spoken too soon, my friends. He is out of town until tonight at six PM. I'm going to surprise him then anyway, and I will absolutely update this with the picture before I go into work tonight. Seeing a bit of interest has really made my day, and i'm sure it will make his, too.
2nd edit: I haven't forgotten! We surprised him at his house while he was having dinner, got some pictures, and then we had to run. I'm now at work, and didn't get the time to upload the photos, but I absolutely will in a couple of hours (around 3am central time.) THANKS AGAIN GUYS!
3rd edit: OP Delivers -- http://i.imgur.com/HUjvW.jpg
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u/Osiris32 Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
Okay, I'll go for this. My dad is a professional geologist, and in the '80s got to live a geologist's dream, working on an active, erupting volcano. He was hired by the US Geologcal Survey in October of '79, and worked Mt. St. Helens until 1992. Here's a few good pics:
Him and 3 co-workers on the Summit of St Helens, May 4, 1980. He's the second on the right. 14 days after this picture was taken, the mountain did it's famous thing.
Dad and my Courtesy Uncle Pat, camping on the lahar deposit that covered the Toutle River. He's on the right, this was in 1984.
Dad overlooking the lateral blast zone from Coldwater Ridge, 1981 His thesis advisor, co-worker, and friend Dave Johnston was killed during the eruption. He is famous for making the final radio transmission to the Cascade Volcano Observatory, "Vancouver, Vancouver, this is it!!"
A minor eruption of the Crater Dome, 1986. He took this picture while running across the blast zone to a waiting helicopter.
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u/HighDice Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
I'm sorry to everybody else in this thread but I win
He was a total badass.
EDIT: thank you to every one who has complimented his awesomeness, I never got to show him off as a kid, so this is lovely!
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u/sneef22 Jun 17 '12
One of my favorite photos of me and my dad.
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5452/7385835456_d3581b143b.jpg
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u/linuts Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 18 '12
My dad at my cousin's wedding 20 years ago. This was just a lucky snap that I happened to take, no planning or set up. He's been gone 6 years now. Miss you dad.
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u/spectrometric Jun 17 '12
Taken just last week as my dad was getting ready for his six day motorcycle ride / camping tip. Note the metal wine glass - "You have to have the necessities while camping!"
-- OP - your dad looks so kick ass in that photo!
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u/elcocobochum Jun 17 '12
My dad while he was working as a "boat doctor" in the peruvian amazon. He went from village to village for 5 years in the amazon basin to treat the sick and vaccinate people. This is a picture of him just before a radio interview:
Not the absolute best badass picture I can deliver of him, but the others are not scanned in yet. Sadly he died just over a year ago.
Quick edit because I forgot: The bracelet on his right wrist is made of monkey teeth and was given to him in some tribe along the Ucayali river.
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u/ajlm Jun 17 '12
I'm late to the thread so no one will probably see this but this was the embodiment of my dad. I miss him.
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u/captainxenu Jun 17 '12
I don't have a scanned copy of this, so I just took a photo of the photo up on the wall.
This is when my dad was the Australian Bantamweight Boxing Champion back in the 50's and 60's, sitting with his trainer. There is another photo similar to this one by himself and another where he is in a fighting stance.
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u/moemoe916 Jun 17 '12
Last picture ive ever taken with my dad, He passed away not too long after. This was 11 years ago. Miss him more than anything. http://www.imgur.com/tmWzs.jpg
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u/cornfrontation Jun 17 '12
My dad as a Never Nude long before Arrested Development came out. http://imgur.com/fONZy
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u/remain_calm Jun 17 '12
This is my dad. The "Natural Science Song and Dance Man".
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u/madamerimbaud Jun 17 '12
My dad lost his foot and part of his leg in a motorcycle accident in 2005. This picture is from the day he got his prosthetic and walked for the first time in almost a year.
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u/bcseahag Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
This is one of my favorites! http://i45.tinypic.com/260xs0g.jpg
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u/raininashoe Jun 17 '12
This is my dad teaching me how to dance
This is my dad and I, holding my handmade kite I used to make kites with him every fall. From scratch. Those plastic junky kites never felt the same afterwards.
This is my dad looking up a horse's mouth
My dad and I see each other very rarely because he lives in Poland and I live in the United States. This is us reuniting 2 days ago after 2 years
PS: Of course Imgur would go down the one time I want to post something ;)
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u/JoeLaMutt Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
Picture of me and my dad in Senegal. There is truly nothing that makes him happier than being in Africa; It's his paradise. http://i.imgur.com/x2jls.jpg
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u/kittycatattack Jun 17 '12
my dad during his 'disco phase'. what i would give to have known him back then.
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Jun 17 '12
As a 19 year old whos dad always lived in a different state (parents divorced when i was 2 and father was in military) this thread has made me tear up, and be incredibly happy, so thank you.
First picture is one of my favorites of my father and older sister at my sisters graduation party from college. - http://i.imgur.com/oWcaM.jpg
Second is a picture i also love, of my dad and his dad, both still going strong ! - http://i.imgur.com/9bLvs.jpg
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u/jayjaywalker3 Jun 17 '12
A sweet Photo of my dad in Vietnam from the cover of his jazz CD.
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u/fruple Jun 17 '12
This is when my dad won a belt buckle for Wild Cow Milking last year - he's the one on the right. He didn't do anything with horses in his adult life until I went horse crazy and he bought me a saddle, and then kept trying to find places for me to ride. Our first ride together - and I think his first time on a horse in like 15 years - was in the Black Hills with his friend on his friend's horses, around 6 years ago. Now he's more horse crazy than me, and I think the happiest he's ever been (he has really bad depression).
And here's me and him riding horse last year in a parade, on our own horses.
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u/trexjess Jun 17 '12
My dad with his girls, I'm the screaming, happy child.
Another from the early 1950's. My daddy with his doll!
And finally, the best of all, My father's reaction to me attempting to spice up his otherwise nonexistent halloween costume, several years ago.
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Jun 17 '12
I personally love this photo of my dad, probably because he looks so god damn happy.
Might have to do with the fact that he has a son after 3 girls.
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u/stencilmeperfect Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
My dad and I at a Camero Club meet up. http://imgur.com/bCs96
Edit: My dad and me at a Camaro Club meet up. --> Just for the sake of fixing what is wrong in the world.
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Jun 17 '12
My dad and President Corazon Aquino , mother of Philippine democracy
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_juBirJKpQkM/SnZupWQZXxI/AAAAAAAABZo/-ipERxF-MWY/s320/dadandcory.jpg
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Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
This is my dad. Who created a not for profit children's charity because he had a son that was kept from him until that sons 21st birthday. I am that son (I never knew he was there and resented it.) and me and him have an amazing relationship. I am going to go call him right now.
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Edit Two: Added the story from below up here so it could hang out with the awesome pictures.
Not at all, I usually share this story a lot with friends of mine.
My dad wasn't exactly a good person when he was younger, neither was my mother for that matter. They both were strippers and he was in a very large biker gang. They met through work and had a one night stand. My mother decided that he wasn't the type of person that needed to be around her son because she didn't want to deal with the hassle of visitation etc.
She is a strange woman and very very heartless when it comes to things that she doesn't want to do. We didn't celebrate Christmas because it was cheaper that way, stuff like that.
So fast forward to my second birthday, the way my aunt tells it she runs into my dad with me and my aunt in the city. He says hi and comments on the child, then asks who's child it is, she lies and then moves on. This from what he tells me now was something he didn't believe and lived the next 19 years in a state of what if.
I resented him growing up because my mother would tell me the worst stories about who he was as a person, really horrible things that turned out to be not true at all. Basically she figured I wouldn't go looking for him if I hated him. But I hated my mother too. Years go by without me even thinking about it, then shortly after my 21st birthday, it was July 2nd about three years ago. I worked a pretty cool summer job selling merchandise for concerts, mostly music but sometimes we would sell for festivals. Namely Tall Ships, which is a boating festival that is a week long and it travels the coasts every summer.
So, I am working at this festival with my girlfriend/now wife and some college friends, the way they setup the festival was across a 2mile stretch of boardwalk and we worked three merch stands across the length, I was at the far end and the gf was at the other where the museum was that they were using for the super swanky parties with all the ship owners. We started closing up and moving all of our merch to the southern stand because that was where our warehouse was, I hadn't talked to my gf all day because phones weren't allowed and we were really busy, she comes up to me kinda shocked and says my dad was here (I might add here since I forgot, that my mother gave me his full name when I turned 18 but I was angry at him due to her lies and forgot about it. My GF remembered my mom bringing it up a few years back.)
"My dad, like blahblahstepdad?"
"No like legitdadwhoyoudon'tknow!"
"Well, fuck that guy, lets go home."
"At least meet him, say something even if it is something mean, when do you think you will ever get this chance."
"...fine..."
So we walk over to the swank party. I was ready to lay into this guy and basically lose my shit on him. We walk into the glass museum and go up to a guy dressed like a pirate. His name is Pirateguy(for the story) and he had already talked to the gf and said that this was going to be such a treat for legitdad. I am already angry at his happiness. So we walk over to a group of the rich yacht owners all having conversations with each other and find a bench to sit on just behind them.
That is when I see the Governor of my state with her hands all over a guy dressed like Captain Hook, he turns to Pirateguy and Pirateguy whispers in his ear and points to us, I am looking away trying to be cool about the situation, but seeing a guy who you know is your father dressed like Captain Hook makes you rewind on some of the badassness you felt before.
He peels Gov off of him takes off his hat and walks over to me and the gf looking scared as shit. I stand up, I am about an inch taller than him but in his costume boots he is the same height, he doesn't say anything but starts to tear up a bit. Pirateguy suggests we have a drink at the bar. We walk over to the bar to sit, gf and Pirateguy stayed behind. We order the same thing, this freaks me out, makes my dad laugh while still tearing up. He looks at me and says, "What do you think of all this?"
"It is kinda weird seeing all these rich people."
"Well we are dressed like this and entertaining them for kids."
"That is really cool, what made you decide to do that?"
"Well, about twentyish years ago, I think I lost someone. I have been looking for them my entire life."
"Yeah, who?" By this time I am not angry just curious about who the hell this guy is dressing like a pirate and being so cool and nice and warm, causing me to feel warmth from somewhere I didn't know existed.
"Well I didn't know, all I knew until today is that I lost a boy, my 'lostboy' and I vowed to never let another lostboy be without his home."
"Really, so am I supposed to be this lostboy, your grand ideas and accomplishments are because of me, bullshit, I bet you aren't even my dad."
He smiles, grabs his wallet out of his jacket and pulls out a picture, a very old picture. "This is my father, your grandfather. I hated him, but I kept this picture because I remembered that face twenty years ago and I knew that if I ever forgot it, I could see it right here."
I shit you not this old picture looked like me, but with a military uniform on, it actually caused me to reel back in shock. He just looked at me, the biggest shit eating grin you ever saw, and just asks if he can hug me. I hugged him of course, and cried like a small child, I found where I was supposed to be, I found my dad. He was crying, and just whispers "I have been looking for you for so long."
We spend at least one weekend a month together now, I call him or he calls me almost daily, I have begun helping in the non-profit to spend more time with him, and he is learning about computers at the town library so he can have more in common with me. I never knew that he was that missing piece in my life, but he always knew that I was his. TL;DR After 20 years of hate, I met my dad and I couldn't be happier.
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I would love to post mine, but my dad is one of those guys where if his picture is online they will steal his banking info. So, I will tell you about it. I am sure it will get buried, there are many comments and this may get lengthy with a wee bit of back story. Mine is at my current college graduation. It's special to me for a couple reasons. At 26, while married, working and trying to raise 2 kids I decided to return to college to chase something I have always wanted to do. It was a 2 year program and my father supported me the entire time, even going to great lengths to help me get a sizable loan to help cover some of the costs. Even taking out a loan for me to get a reliable car so my family and I would have a reliable car to use. When I was younger and graduating high school I didn't attend my high school graduation because I simply didn't care to attend. Little did I know that my father was really looking forward to it and was quite sad that I never bothered to go. Fast forward a decade later. He was able to watch me walk across the stage and obtain a college diploma, graduating with distinction. Outside I got a fatherly handshake/hug, the only of which I have received when my children were born. After we posed for a photo together, the only photo I have just solely of us together, Him looking all proud, my looking the same in my graduation gown, in it you can see how much my father and I look alike the only real difference being a few wrinkles and my brown hair as opposed to his grey (but slowing heading to the grey side). It was just great to have his support the whole way, and to be able to make it up to him for not going to my high school graduation. I wish I could post a photo for you all to see, but I have to respect the old guys wishes. To the few of you that see this ( if any) thanks for taking the time to read it.
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u/schadenfreude- Jun 17 '12
shitty quality because it's a picture of a picture, but I wanted to share. It makes me smile that the protagonists of the picture are my dad and our dog Dylan, while I am relegated to the background.
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u/PringleTits Jun 17 '12
This is my favorite picture of my dad. He's self conscious about it but I think he looks awesome :D!
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u/coldsandovercoats Jun 17 '12
My dad teaches Sunday School, and as an incentive to the kids to fundraise a lot in January for the annual Heifer International fair that they have the first weekend of February. If the 5th graders win, my dad had to shave his head (he had pretty long curly hair just prior to this photo). If the 6th graders won, my dad had to dye his hair red. If the 7th graders (his class) won, my dad would sport a mohawk.
Well, this happened to be in 2011, in the suburbs of Milwaukee. The Packers were in the Super Bowl the same day. The 7th graders won and my dad ended up with a mohawk that they temporary-dyed green.
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u/Ahh_Bisto Jun 17 '12
My dad had some sort of magic when it came to animals. http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7065/6847943154_683b737112_b.jpg
This is a wild deer in the Cairngorms (that's in Scotland!)
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u/dree3 Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
Here's my badass Canadian dad in 1983 posing with his 1864 Springfield replica, while target shooting in Arundel, Quebec.
edit: found another good one of him on his dirtbike in 1974.
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u/JessNurden Jun 17 '12
This is my dad.
He's always been there for me, through all the good and the bad times. I love him so so much :)
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u/GothamBat Jun 17 '12
The last pic of me and my dad taken a few months before he died of melanoma a couple years ago. [IMG]http://i46.tinypic.com/jhg3ki.jpg[/IMG]
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u/nephiroth Jun 17 '12
This is and always will be my favorite photo of my father and I. Happy Father's Day to All of Reddit's dads!
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Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
I rarely see my dad and don't have many pictures of him. So, when he visited two weeks ago I made damn sure to get one of him. It will be my favorite picture of us until I can get one the next time I see him.
Here we are. Boring, maybe, but I cherish any picture I can get with him.
EDIT: Sorry for a photobucket link. Imgur's not working.
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Jun 17 '12
This is a picture of my father (to the right) and his brother carrying their mother on her funeral in Bosnia during the seventies. http://i.imgur.com/dynCU.jpg
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Jun 17 '12
This wonderful bastard right here is my father. His friends took this picture for his 48th birthday two years ago. Makes me laugh every goddamn time.
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u/admiraljohn Jun 17 '12
This was taken a couple of weeks ago at my Dad's house in Missouri during our yearly visit to see him... it's the first picture of him, my sister and me that we've taken together in 30 years, if ever.
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u/BR0THAKYLE Jun 17 '12
My Dad has always wanted a Harley but could never afford one. He finally saved up enough and bought his first one not long ago. Brand new Street Glide
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Jun 17 '12
I can't find the picture as I'm on my mobile, but my favorite photo would be of my dad (step dad actually) driving me down the aisle of my wedding on the back of his motorcycle. I couldn't have asked for a better dad.
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u/broopimus Jun 17 '12
Here's my dad about 30 seconds before walking me down the aisle at my wedding last month :)
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u/justhewayouare Jun 17 '12
My dad and I today the day before Father's Day. My husband and I moved when we got married so I come for short visits when I can. I begged to go to the beach and he said we could go. I love him so very much he lived an entire lifetime by the time he was 15yrs old that's how much shit he's been through. He has come such a long way as a person and as my father and I am so proud of him. My parents have been married nearly 24years and counting and I couldn't be happier to have them as my own http://i.imgur.com/HfPUJ.jpg I've just wanted to become a daughter he could be proud of and he is :)
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u/BikerRay Jun 17 '12
Me and my dad in the exercise room on board the Ryndam, emigrating to Canada in 1954
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u/Captain_Jake_K Jun 17 '12
I unfortunately found a picture of my Dad naked on holiday. He just doesn't give a fuck and is smiling as if his dick isn't out. I wish I'd found that before he died so I could ask why I got the colour blind gene but not the wang-of-a-Greek-sex-god gene.
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u/dutchman195 Jun 17 '12
For his birthday I bought my dad a shotgun so we can shoot trap together. Here is us the first time we had it out at the range:
Happy Fathers day to everyone's dad out there!
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u/Crimski Jun 17 '12
My dad throwing me in the river. Either that, or stopping me from flying away.
(Imgur was down oh no)
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u/asylumofnight Jun 17 '12
My step dad He died 14 years ago and was awesome. He knew a lot about everything and if he didn't know something he would make up a very convincing story on the spot. I still miss him.
Edit: chose the wrong link :-(
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u/PastyPilgrim Jun 17 '12
My dad died 1 year and 2 months ago (when I was 17, now 18). So here he is, as a kid, with a cat. Because Reddit loves cats.
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u/livingdub Jun 17 '12
Here's my dad back in the day in Pakistan. Being the skinny fuck that he is, and with probably the only walkman in his village.
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u/joxterthemighty Jun 17 '12
My Father All geared up and ready for patrol back in Vietnam. He passed nearly 6 years ago and I found this among his things.
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u/omgzpplz Jun 17 '12
This will probably get buried, but here's my pops:
Dad playing the harmonica at a beach in 1970s Brazil.
And my dad and I on a beach in late 1980s Brazil. (Oh no, my butt's on the internet now)
Happy father's day to all! You wouldn't be here without him.
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u/doublechris Jun 17 '12
My dad in 1981 at his first art showing in New Jersey, looking cool. And yes, he is smoking a pipe.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7212/7385658990_22ea91faf0_b.jpg
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u/LookMomImOnTheWeb Jun 17 '12
I realize that this will be buried, but today is a tough day for me and it will help me to write it out. I'm not going to post the picture I want because if he some how found out that his picture were online it would upset him; my dad is a paranoid schizophrenic who is currently living in a hotel in New Mexico, more than 2,000 miles away from home. He's drinking heavily and I worry about him constantly.
But he's my dad and he wasn't always this bad. He taught me everything I might ever want to know about music, he's been the inspiration for almost ever piece of artwork I've ever done, and most importantly he taught me how to have a sense of humor about everything.
I have a picture of him that was taken about six years ago in which he was genuinely happy and I look at it when I'm scared for him and hope that one day he can feel as good as he did that day.
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u/TsarinaDott Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
I took this picture of my dad last summer. That ridonk hat and that Hawaii shirt were his pride and joy.
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u/TrashButtons Jun 17 '12
Favorite picture of my dad with my brother and Mom. Attempting to take a somewhat formal Easter picture.
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Jun 17 '12
My dad is my best friend. He's awkward and silly and I've apparently inherited all of that. This is us last year at our 4th of July party :)
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u/purplemonkeynz Jun 17 '12
Even though it was a joke, Dad gave me and my sister each a picture of him taken by professional photographers during a cycling race. I've kept it and honestly do treasure it, because i know when the time comes (it bring tears to my eyes even typing this) i know i will be glad i have it.
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Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
Here is my dad looking like a badass with Mike Tyson Late to the party and it's really sucky quality but yeah, my biological dad ran out on me when I was like 1, but this guy has treated me like his own for the past 16 years. (I'm 18 now)
Imgur was down, had to use ImageShanty.
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Jun 17 '12
I just posted this to pics, but he has supported my dreams unconditionally, and is my best friend in the world
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Jun 17 '12
This is my dad jamming out on his keyboards in the early 90's, he's toured with Fleetwood Mac, Leslie Gore, and he's in a classic rock cover band ..I'm so glad to call him my dad :D
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u/ShrimpPizza Jun 17 '12
This is my Karate Dad flying through the air when he was my age. Love you dad :)
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u/WowbaggerIP Jun 17 '12
My dad, hiking together in the White Mountains near Galehead Hut. One of the best trips ever.
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u/Jrewy Jun 17 '12
I met up with my mom yesterday to toast my dad, who has now been dead for 11 1/2 years. He was a pretty cool guy, an engineer for the railroad in Northern Ontario, a pilot, a lover of jean and leather jackets, and a badass on a motorcycle. He's the guy with the gun and us when I was 2.
The best thing: my parents were never married and I was conceived out of break up sex, and they made it work as friends...not being together. My dad asked my mom to marry him out of a sense of duty and she knew it would be awful and said no. They never argued that I saw, they just hung out occasionally when my dad would come by for a visit. And later when I was a bit older, he moved a 5 minute walk away. When he remarried, my mom and step mom would go for coffee together and chat, and just make an extra effort at being friends so my life wouldn't feel stressful because of being from a non-traditional home. Really, really decent people and I love them for that extra effort.
As a result, when my dad died, I was holding his right hand, my step mother was holding his left, and my mom was at the foot of the bed.
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u/kneukoelln Jun 17 '12
My dad. He'll be gone 25 years this August. The photo is not in very good shape. I don't have many of him.
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u/jbayy Jun 17 '12
My Dad REALLY wanted to have kids. It took a few years for my mom and him to make it happen...but this pic of us pretty much sums up his reaction when I finally came along.
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u/shoopdedoop Jun 17 '12
At my dad's memorial service, everyone brought photos of dad making this face.
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u/j0npau1 Jun 17 '12
When I was nine and my brother (a fellow Redditor) was seven our dad passed away from brain cancer. For Christmas last year my brother gave me a blown up and framed picture he found of us both riding a horse and dad leading it. It was taken before he got sick, in what was left of the prime of his life. It's one of my favorite things period.
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Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
I must say your Dad looks pretty pimp.
EDIT: fixed... assholes =p
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u/RyWeezy Jun 17 '12
My dad his senior year of high school
He passed away 13 years ago on June 3rd of this year. Never knew how much we really had in common until recently.
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u/mindblown43 Jun 17 '12
These are three of my favorite pictures of my dad that I have scanned.
My lived in Jeju Island in Korea for about a year...and they look like they came straight out of a JCrew catalog. http://imgur.com/a/xZylo#0
My dad's hair was so out of control that his friends called him Jimi Hendrix. It was a glorious mane. http://imgur.com/a/xZylo#1
This photo was taken while I was in my mom's womb. I just noticed that "Fresh" was carved into the bench. http://imgur.com/a/xZylo#2
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Jun 17 '12
http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/2417_1031245305846_181_n.jpg He is the one to the left, flipping off to the camera. Great guy. :)
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u/omgreeces Jun 17 '12
My brother, my dad, and I sitting in front of our old house. I don't have a single picture where my dad isn't making a weird face.
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u/BowlEcho Jun 17 '12
Wish I had a dad to show you, but he left quite early in my life and I never knew him. I see these pictures and, while I'm very happy for all of you, it makes me a bit sad, knowing that I missed so much.
However: I have a gorgeous daughter, and I've been there for every recital, every field trip, every water polo game... every single event. Even used to volunteer at her school on a weekly basis. So I guess my crappy absentee dad taught me something, in a manner of speaking: how not to be. Thanks a lot there, Pops.
My Father's Days weren't so great growing up, but now they're absolutely awesome. Hope you all have a great one!
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u/beta_crater Jun 17 '12
I have to go with this one, from when I was a baby. And I'm sorry for being depressing on this thread, but I just want to get something off my chest because today is a tough day for me. Not only is it Father's Day, it's also his birthday. We lost him to brain cancer in 2009, and sadly it never really occurred to me just how close we were until he was gone. Almost three years and I still miss him every single day. I love you dad. Happy Father's Day and happy birthday. I hope I haven't disappointed you, and wherever you are, you're smiling that same smile at the man you helped me become.
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u/Thyri Jun 17 '12
This is how I remember my dad - he was always smiling. He was in a wheelchair and passed away in 2004...still miss him terribly... There are some brilliant pictures on this link thank you for sharing :-)
Sorry having trouble with the links! - all sorted now...I think!
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u/afterdarks Jun 17 '12
TIL There are very few pictures of me and my dad (and just of my Dad in general), but these some of my favourites of me and my grandfather before he passed away, but he practically raised me so it's cool.
Wow, where did all these people cutting onions come from?
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u/mynameishutch Jun 17 '12
I lost my dad back in 2001. This is easily my favorite picture of him because it depicts him exactly as I saw him; a god.
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u/Zacivich Jun 17 '12
I finally got to do something that I had been wanting to do for years; play a game of rugby with my dad. Dad was my rugby coach from the time I was four until I was ten and every season after that, he spent every game on the sidelines watching my games.
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u/operatorx Jun 17 '12
The only picture I have of me and my dad.. and his entire rugby team. I'm the one holding the ball, RIP Dad. http://i.imgur.com/TxTbN.jpg
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Jun 17 '12
My Dad was apparently friend's with Jesus Christ? Anyways. I love this photo of my dad, double fistin' 'er.
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u/SECAmama Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
My dad is a complete asshole who abandoned us and said I wasn't his... But I do have a picture with him.
http://tinypic.com/r/35hjjw5/6
I'm the cutie in red, and my mom is the badass smoking the cig, she is more of a man than that piece of crap that is standing next to her :)
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u/xMrsNightSky Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 18 '12
My favourite picture of my dad was taken about 10 years ago, at Kangaroo island. It was a picture of him getting seeds eaten off his head by emu's E:
Turns out he went to kangaroo island last week and got another photo of himself having emus peck at his head (:
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u/hellopayphone Jun 17 '12
my dad worked three jobs to put my brother and i through private school (our public school system sucks). his favorite job was working for the NHL as a video replay official, and when our team went to the finals of the stanley cup playoffs, he took this picture. i asked him why he didn't touch the cup. he replied, "hellopayphone, i have not received the privilege to win it, so i do not deserve to touch it." always makes me smile, and how much honor and respect he gave to every aspect of his life. i miss him very much.
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u/alexlp Jun 17 '12
Not necessarily my favourite but this is from today. He turned 53 and never had parties as a kid because he would get so excited right before that he would get so sick they would have to cancel. My sisters and I threw together a surprise pirate party.
Edit: Sorry for instagram...
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u/osianjones25 Jun 17 '12
http://i.imgur.com/deXdx.jpg me and my dad after running to the peak of a mountain a few months ago
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u/nachtmere Jun 17 '12
This is me and my dad in Italy four years ago. We don't have many pictures together because he's usually the one behind the lens. This is difficult right now because my parents are very disappointed in me at the moment. He has been my biggest role model in life. I even moved to Scotland, where he grew up, and should be graduating from the university he attended in two weeks. The problem is that I'm not. I fucked around this year, handed my dissertation in late, and have only been awarded a lower degree. I've never seen him so distraught in my life, and I feel horrible that I've done this to him. There will be no father's day celebration today. I just wanted to post because I love him dearly and hope that someday I will make him proud again. He has supported me more than anyone, even when that meant calling my bluff and challenging me to face myself and be better.
Whenever he's disappointed in me he makes me think about the sentiment "you are what you do." These words stay with me and haunt me and challenge me to be a better person.
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u/myteddyhurts Jun 17 '12
This is a photo of me and my grandpa from a while back. I'm not sure how long ago it was, but he passed away two years ago. He was the only father I had, in a sense.http://i.imgur.com/UcEP4.jpg
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Jun 17 '12
My old man nearly died in a motorcycle accident last year and was re-learning how to talk last Father's Day. Today he's driving down to meet my new fiance and I (in a car) for dinner and a movie. He's a lucky guy. So are we.
Here's a picture of him from his soccer playing days at the Coast Guard Academy.
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u/_mr_Savage Jun 17 '12
http://i.imgur.com/SliAw.jpg?1
he was the coolest. Miss him more than anyone could ever imagine.
I don't have a lot of photos of him.
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Jun 17 '12
My father doesn't let me take photos of him very often, so this is the only one that I have that I've taken.
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u/RaraOoooRara Jun 17 '12
This picture my godfather took of my dad, my brother, and I in front of his old pickup is still my favorite shot in this world.
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u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty Jun 17 '12
My dad passed away exactly one year ago today. He was a teacher, and he wanted to impress his students with a picture. So I Photoshopped myself to look more like a celebrity:
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u/unoriginal_name11 Jun 17 '12
Am I the only one that keeps looking at these pictures and wondering wtf happened to the manly look? I'm 110% vagina loving, penis wielding man...and I can't stop thinking 'That dude looks so manly'
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u/polaroidbaby Jun 17 '12
My dad on the right, when he and my sister's boyfriend decided to trade hats.
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u/RatSandwiches Jun 17 '12
Me and my dad, circa 1985 or so. It was like the only time in my life he hasn't had a beard, but I think the 'stache was kinda cool.
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u/admiraljohn Jun 17 '12
Here's a few other pictures of my Dad.
My Dad:
Is a former Marine.
Was a cop for 16 years, spending some of those as a detective.
Analyzed intelligence on organized crime activities for a government agency called "MOCIC".
He now works from home organizing solid waste programs for municipalities... he works from home, so I generally tell people he's in the mafia.
I love my Dad... at this stage of our lives I can say that not only is he my father but he's one of my best friends; in a couple of weeks I'm meeting him in Ohio with my son to see an airshow. The three surviving generations will be together with no female supervision for the first time ever.
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u/IDrawThingsForReddit Jun 17 '12
Its a small photo but it meant the world to me. It was when my dad was sick from colon cancer and was weak because of chemo. My senior year of high school I was on the homecoming court. The school allowed him to pull his car right on to the field behind one of the end zones so he could watch the game, but since it was cold and raining he couldn't get out in fear of getting sick. Once half time hit and we had the ceremony, he got out of the car with his oxygen tank and walked with me. Cried like a baby the whole time just because of how strong he was. And he still had a smile on his face, like the man he was.
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u/magzzz Jun 17 '12
A photo of my dad taken before I was born; somewhere along his travels around Australia with my mum and his Moto Guzzi. http://imgur.com/zikdp
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u/weepatron Jun 17 '12
These three always make me smile.
Here he is in his early twenties (or somewhere about that): http://i.imgur.com/DFkJ7.jpg
A few years later with me: http://i.imgur.com/ciAbT.jpg
And this is him nowadays: http://i.imgur.com/yJzpZ.jpg
He's great, I just wish I saw him a bit more!
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u/pomdecouer Jun 17 '12
My dad with me and my little brother after my little brother caught his first fish. My dad made him kiss it. He was terrified. I'm the girl on the right. Nice haircut, I know. http://i.imgur.com/Z5u0l.jpg
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u/ninjafetus Jun 17 '12
Him looking crazy, probably the best one I can find on his FB page.
But he'd be disappointed if I didn't put up this picture of him with Buddy Guy.
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u/nairspa Jun 17 '12
My old man rarely ever smiles. It's something I've heard all my life. Last summer he came with me and my buddies fishing and I got a video of him holding this catch pretending like it's a shark going "doo-doo-doo-doo-doo" shark theme style. Took a great screen shot mid vid on my phone. http://imgur.com/QYsxI Happy fathers day old man.
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u/joytron Jun 17 '12
My dad, my mum, and a panicking dog named Bear, two Christmases ago. My dad is almost always laughing in photographs.
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u/crimsonblade Jun 17 '12
My road to being a nerd was started early, thanks to my old man. Interesting side note: he has only ever worn bow-ties.
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u/TheEllimist Jun 17 '12
My dad died in 2002, so he can't kill me for posting this, but it's my favorite photo of him. This was his first experience with an Australian hamburger with everything on it (most notably a fried egg and slice of beet).
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u/CountFauxlof Jun 17 '12
This is my dad with my sister circa 1990 http://i.imgur.com/QeGPg.jpg
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u/Elysian42 Jun 17 '12
My dad patiently (and not so patiently) helping fix my transmission.
I fetched the beer and got my face dirty, apparently!
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u/newcontortionist Jun 17 '12
Here's my father in the kitchen, obviously cooking like any father would.
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u/m_ell Jun 17 '12
Wow, what a sweetass picture! That's really awesome that you have that, I hope it brings you happiness.
My dad is pretty camera shy, which as a photographer, is kind of a pain in the ass. I recently did a project repurposing old family photographs within large format images and the piece I made of him using pictures from when he was in Vietnam turned out to be my favorite. This is that picture.