Perhaps you can go to an artist and go over the details for him or her to make you a nice (frameable) drawing? I've heard of people doing this before.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is but one step--Napolean Bonaparte

Awww that's so sad...

well if you lost it, you're out of luck. how long ago did you lose it? maybe your mom has a copy stored away. as long you remember it, that's all you need.

I'm in love with my best friend.

Do you remember the photographer,maybe they have one left.

That's a good point...If the photo was shot in a professional photographers studio, they sometimes file the negatives for many years and may be able to make a new print for you. If the shot was a home-made snapshot you can look through your old collection of photos to see if your mom saved the negatives. Unfortunately, most people throw away the negatives. Without the original photo and without a negative of the shot, you are out of luck.

For everyone else...Save all your old negatives..and also...make digital scans of all your valuable photos and burn them onto CD's, just in case your original prints and negatives are ever lost or destroyed.

No matter how cynical you get...you just can't keep up.

It is amazing where photos of people may turn up. I was rummaging through the loose photos and old newspapers at an antique store in Newcastle, Indiana about seven years ago. To my utter surprise I found some photos and a newspaper issued during World War II with an article about my friend's mom who was working at a defense plant.
I contacted her with the items (she was then well past 80 years old) and even she was stunned and pleasantly surprised. She had no idea that these items even existed nor that her girlfriend from the defense plant had submitted the article.
If you rummage around town in the place where your dad was born or raised, there's no telling what you might come up with!

"Kein Mensch muss muessen."

I've been moving around too much, and I tend to move light, so I don't have any photo albums. I kept one photo in my purse, and it was stolen in a parade in Amsterdam.

I can't ask my mom for another photo, she hates anything relate to my dad (even me!), I don't want to stimulate her. I tried my aunt, but no luck.

Dear everyone, please really scan your valuable photos. You don't get a second chance sometimes...

Snow

Life is a box of chocolate, you never know what you get~
Snow

sorry to hear about your woes .... but yah if it was professionally done that might be the only way you can get another unless you suck it up and ask your mum ... you have to wonder what it is worth to you.

I know what it feels like, but not with a family photo, but of a beloved ex-girlfriend. I really liked that photograph, and one day I lost it with my ID card, money and everything else. I still miss that tiny beautiful photo of my dear Roxanne.

"THERE'LL BE NO SHELTER HERE... THE FRONTLINE IS EVERYWHERE !!!!!!" (RATM, No shelter)