Foo Photo - Two Davids and The Truck

Photojojo highlighted a photo project recently that asked people to pair an old photo of themselves with a new one done to the same subject matter. While it's not exactly what Photojojo wrote about, here's a "before and after" Foo Photo segment for you that is inspired by the project. In October 2002 David, Grandpa David and I drove with our car club to Deception Pass on a cruise. The picture above - one of my all-time favorites - was taken on that cruise while at Ebeys Landing. At that point David was not even a year old yet, Grandpa was not even 70, and the truck had less than 80,000 miles.

Fast forward to 2010 for the photo below:

I took this today while in Shoreline. David is eight, Grandpa is 76, and the truck has 156,000 miles and counting. Grandpa David is hiding his arm sling made necessary by recent shoulder surgery (he's doing great). Today he wasn't able to find the hat he wore in the original picture, but made a gallant effort. I'd say the biggest change that can be seen is little David's size. Here you see him wearing the bronze badge he won in the AWANA Olympics today with his team from our church!

Other differences related to the truck are the missing front air dam below the bumper (which was not long for this world when the first photo was taken). You'll also notice the higher profile tires in the current photo. This is the third set of tires I've had on the truck in 90,000 miles; the first two low-profile sets were expensive and wore so fast that I couldn't keep the truck legal. Solution: used set of Goodyears that restored the original ride height for $300 at Les Schwab. They've now been on the truck longer than I can recall.

While it doesn't show in the picture, the truck is starting to age. one of the no-longer-produced aluminum rims on the other side is bent from an unfortunate snow accident a year ago. The carpet and seat upholstery has endured 8 years of juice, milk, Ding Dongs, Slurpees, and countless chicken nuggets. The electrical system is "quirky," which is to say that it functions just fine but flickers the headlights below 40 degrees. I also have to smack the CD player from time to time in order to get the speakers working again. Working AC is merely a memory from long long ago. Surprisingly, the original purple paint has held up quite well considering it's 16 years old and been egged...twice.

But I love it anyway. In fact I love everything and everyone in this shot. If I ever needed a reason to take photographs, documenting my family would be the best one ever!