Dad Takes a Picture a Day For 12 Years
Categories: Just For Dads
Say cheese! How often do you photograph your child? Image: sxc.hu
At least that is how it works for most of us. But not for Munish Bansal, a 36-year-old father in Gillingham, Kent in the U.K. He started taking pictures of his children and never stopped. Each and every day since they day they were born, Bansal has whipped out his camera and taken a photo of 12-year-old Shuman and her 10-year-old brother Jay. To date, he has more than 8,500 photos of his kids!
"I thought it would be a bit different to photograph the children and give them something to look back on later in life," he says. "I wanted to do something special for them. Whenever I feel like it, and when no one is in a rush, I will just take some pictures of them. They like being photographed."
Bansal keeps the photos in an online archive and says he intends to keep adding to it as long as his kids will let him. "I won't stop unless they tell me to," he says.
When I read this story, I had one of those "Why didn't I think of that?" moments. I wish I had a such a photo album. What I do have is a box of mementos accumulated throughout my 8-year-old's life. The outfit she wore home from the hospital, her favorite baby toy, the dress she wore on her first birthday, etc.
Assuming you don't have a daily photographic record of your children, how are you recording their lives for posterity?
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Melissa 5-21-2009 @ 12:01PM
Can I be in an article? I take pictures of my daughter every single day, too! She's three, and I have over 3,000 pictures on my computer....Hell, I have over 200 on my camera from a Saturday trip to Disneyland! I'm sorry to be rude, and I don't mean to offend anyone, but what, exactly, is so amazing about this guy?
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Greta 5-21-2009 @ 1:21PM
That 8,500 number seems extremely low for someone who takes photos every day. We got a digital camera shortly before our daughter was born 6 1/2 years ago, and we now have 100,000 photos in our computer - and probably 3/4 of those photos, if not more, are of her. Maybe he's only taking one photo of each of them a day?
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lisa 5-21-2009 @ 4:31PM
I think it's great that all of you are capturing every single moment! I love to document my son's life....he is only 6 mos old. He is my first and last so I want to document every little and big moment. Does anyone have suggestions of how I can safely archive all digital images. Every month I print photos, save on my computer and burn on cd. Are there any good, free online backups?
Thanks!
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Tricia 5-22-2009 @ 1:07AM
My daughter is almost 9 months old and I must have a million pictures of her in those 9 months. what I did was I bought an olympus digital camera, and bought the xd card and when it was full i put it in the case and marked it... 1 month, 2 months... and so on. I have them in a lock box so I don't lose them, and I know where they are at so I can print them anytime, and I can't get them mixed up because they are marked.
Chloe Wilson 6-01-2009 @ 4:52AM
Hi,
I agree "Why didn't I think of that?". My son is 8 and when he was born we took the usual proud new parent video and photos. This tailed off after the initial excitement(!) and since we have had a mad videoing few weeks every so often, so we do have something. I kept his first babygro and have kept most of the drawings he has done but I think I will start taking his photo daily from now on. There's stilll many years to catch him growing up so better late than never.
Cheers, Chloe
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