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I take photos so I can go back to them as a different person and see details I didn't see the first time. I first visited Chicago in 2006 and took a bunch of p
by wenc 1y ago
I take photos so I can go back to them as a different person and see details I didn't see the first time.
I first visited Chicago in 2006 and took a bunch of pictures. It was all a blur to me.
Later I became a Chicago resident in 2017, and suddenly those pictures had a new meaning for me. I began to appreciate the details more. Some things didn't change (Metra tickets were clipped on top of the seat in 2006, and it still was in 2019). But the UChicago campus had evolved since my first visit in 2006. Evanston had also changed greatly.
As a new Chicagoan in 2017, it was cool for me look at 2006 pictures again with new eyes and new knowledge (e.g. I now knew the Chicago grid system, the dibs system, that deep dish isn't actually that deep, that the quality of Harolds' Chicken Shack is branch specific, etc.).
- Philpax 1y agoI had a similar experience when I moved to Stockholm a few years after visiting for the first time. Looking over my photos from the original trip, it was delightful to recognise landmarks that I now had the context for, and to notice all the things that had changed - and those that had stayed the same! - in the intervening time. In fact, my primary regret is that I didn't take more photos - there are things I remember visiting, like a specific cafe, that I don't think I'll ever be able to locate again because my memory is far fuzzier than the photographic record.