Sometimes our children grow up so fast that we lose track of the process. Something gets lost in the translation, and we start to wonder where the time went. This father didn’t want that to happen, so this is what he did.
He started videotaping his daughter Lotte, only days after she was born, and continued to do so each Saturday for 18 years. The result? A truly remarkable time capsule, in the form of an insanely viral video that shows his daughter as she grows from a newborn to stunning young woman.
[post_page_title]Portrait of Lotte[/post_page_title]
It’s a feeling that parents all over the world experience, their babies grow up just way too fast. If only there was a way to slow down the process a little, would you? Dutch filmmaker Frans Hofmeester may have found the solution.
His video, titled Portrait of Lotte 0 to 18 years, has gone incredibly viral. And we can see why – it is not every day that you can watch a baby turn into a teenager in under 5 minutes.
[post_page_title]Capturing life[/post_page_title]
The short film consisted of footage of Hofmeester’s daughter Lotte, since she was zero up until she turned 18. Hofmeester was able to capture his daughter’s expressions, starting from cooing, crying, babbling, talking, to days when she refused to talk.
The video represented all of Lotte’s years and her supposedly different moods. In some clips, she looks overjoyed, while in others she looks a bit annoyed or down. Here she is in her earlier years, looking a little ponderous on the left, and excited, as babies get, on the right.