Me in a pensive mood, taken with  a monitor-mounted web camera, and thus about as bad a portrait as you could wish for.  Leaving aside the grotesque effect of an over-wide lens, it shows my most usual beard length	The way I would be if I had my druthers.  I really can't see the point of shaving or cutting your hair so long as it doesn't get in your eyes.  But I usually cave in to convention after a few months of looking like this,  shave most of the beard off and cut my hair a bit.	Trying to imagine what I'll look like when I get to be as old as I feel, I have superimposed my older brother's pate on my face and completed the process (now well advanced) of turning my beard white.

I have once (only) has a long beard with shorter hair, and noone recognised me. When my beard was last long, almost the whole of the bit I usually shave off was white.  Salt-and-pepper seems to be the current style.

To save updating this page in later life I have included a rough simulation of me at an even older age.