Do Not Smile For Your Passport, Please...

"Yeah, that thing you're doing with your face, you don't want to do that for your passport." Having just sat down to get my photo taken, I was genuinely concerned about what the gentleman was referring to. Was I looking at the camera in an odd way? Then I realized what he was referring to, answering, "What? You mean smiling? Uh, they don't smile for passport pictures here?" "No, absolutely not," he answered, while SMILING, having found my question humorous.

The President here always seems to be in what I call "passport photo mode."