Re: Making pictures

>"Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:
>Living as I do in Atlanta, I have only occasional contact with the
>real South,  and even growing up 100 miles souther I was in a
>military town that was therefore similarly cosmopolitan.
>Nevertheless, picture day at school yielded a lot of talk about
>having pictures "made". There was a definite connotation
>difference.  Having your picture "made" involved professional
>photographers and dressing up and such; having your picture "taken"
>could just as easily refer to a snapshot. These days I consider
>the "made" use somewhat quaint, associated with mint juleps and
>verandas and suchlike. :)
That sparked a memory from my childhood in school in Norfolk, VA.
But the phrase was always "have made," as quoted above.  "We're
having our pictures made."

But I don't remember ever using or hearing an active construction
such as "He's making our picture."

Charlie

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