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<\/p>\nOn May 3rd, 2003, I got a digital camera as a present from my parents. I was 24, living at home, and in the middle of doing my degree. We had two cats, and were soon to get a third.<\/p>\n
Like everyone else with their first digital camera, I immediately spent the next month taking pictures of all the incredibly mundane things you were never really allowed to take pictures of before. Bookshelves and bathrooms and carpets and curtains. Desktops, cupboards, TV screens. Cats. So many cats.<\/p>\n
Then I forgot all about ever taking them, and never looked at any of them again until now.<\/p>\n
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So here are nearly a thousand pictures of Essex, England, in May 2003. Almost all of them are extremely boring. A significant proportion of them are either of myself or my cats. 99% of them are in 640*480 format. 23% of them are extremely blurry. <\/p>\n
Essex, England, May 2003<\/strong><\/p>\n 3rd May, 2003<\/a> ___________<\/p>\n Notes:<\/p>\n 1. I took these photos in May 2003<\/em> On May 3rd, 2003, I got a digital camera as a present from my parents. I was 24, living at home, and in the middle of doing my degree. We had two cats, and were soon to get a third. Like everyone else with their first digital camera, I immediately spent the next month taking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1131,1129,120,1130,38,558,670],"class_list":["post-3617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-1131","tag-england","tag-essex","tag-may","tag-nostalgia","tag-photos","tag-the-past"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3618,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617\/revisions\/3618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n5th May, 2003<\/a>
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\n8th May, 2003 (afternoon)<\/a>
\n8th May, 2003 (evening)<\/a>
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\n28th May, 2003<\/a>
\n30th May, 2003<\/a><\/p>\n
\n2. And made this website on March 12th and 13th, 2021<\/em>
\n3. And I was going to write an essay explicating all the things I like about these pictures<\/em>
\n4. But then I did not<\/em>
\n5. Because it’s better just to look<\/em>
\n6. At the past<\/em>
\n7. Captured here in aspic<\/em>
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