How time flies when you’re having fun. Or when you’re just getting older, since time is relative and every second makes up a smaller proportion of your lifespan. Which is why you have to get lucky to hit that fly on your Kalahari Kreef. To him, that hand is like watching an episode of Time Warp. There was a BBC documentary on it, so it must be true.
But I digress. Often.
It was Argus day today – that being the day of the biggest timed cycle race in the world – and we went to watch for as long as the kids were interested.
I took this photo (which actually I really like) of the boy watching the bikes going by:
and it wasn’t until I got home and began uploading stuff that I found a photo of the same boy in the same place doing the same thing:
The camera has changed, probably the cyclists too. The yellow line still needs repainting. But the (wholly unintentional) similarity between the pictures is striking, no?
The earlier photo was taken three years and three days ago, which would make Alex 10½ months old. Flickr tells me that young Alex was snapped on my 2MP Sony Ericsson W900i, which would go some way to explaining the (iffy) quality. As would the fact it was taken at 7:49 on a Sunday morning.
More Argus day pics in the March Things flickr set.
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That is so awesome!
Sarah > It actually is quite cool, isn’t it?
And another big thing that digital phtography has done for us – EXIF data.
Never again will I wonder if that holiday pic was taken in Benidorm or Torremolinos.
(for the record, I’ve never been near either of those places)
I’d just like to know what was going through his head during the more recent photo. That is one look of intense concentration!
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Gosh, at 10 months, Alex had an awesome set of gnashers!
It’s nice that you have a digital timeline – much more interesting than a set of pencil marks on a door frame!
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Thats pretty cool mate. Do like how the cameras and even phones nowdays put a time stamp on the file.
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Ro > Terrifying, isn’t it?
HH > He’s all about the teeth and leaves teeth marks in the door frame.
Wiggy > It’s very handy.
that is so cool!
and, incidentally, i have been to torremolinos. useless trivia.
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