my face over and over again

i’m trying to come up with an author photo and it is hard because a) all the pictures of me are sort of sucky and b) the ones i want to use are ridiculous and c) not high enough resolution anyway.

here are some thoughts:

i don’t think any of these are actually workable.  here are some real choices:

seriously i know i only have about three readers and they are all my relatives but what are your thoughts? can you tell me stat?  or if you have a better picture will you send it to me?  there is a deadline on this and that deadline is now.