My father grew this apple in 1986. I took a picture of me holding the apple. . . |
I later painted a painting of the picture of me holding the apple and then took a picture of me holding the painting. . . |
Later, I took a picture of the picture of me holding the picture of the painting. . . |
Then took a picture of the picture of the picture of me holding the painting of me holding a picture of the apple. . . |
And so on... |
And so on... |
And so on... |
So by now, this is a picture of a picture of a picture of a picture of a picture of a picture of a picture of a picture. N = 8. |
This is the ninth generation of that apple. |
Tenth. |
Eleventh. |
Twelfth. It's around here that I started to try to alternate the backgrounds from light to dark. |
Lucky 13. |
Fourteenth... |
And so on... |
And so on... |
And so on... |
And so on... |
And so on... |
And so on... |
21st generation. This one was probably taken sometime in the late 1980s. |
And so on... |
(Yawn) |
(Zzzzzz...) |
25th. |
26th. |
Are you still looking at these? Wow! |
28th. |
29th. |
30th. |
31st. Pbase allots only a limited number of characters per caption, so I can't say that this is "a picture of a picture..." etc |
It keeps going... |
And going... |
And going... |
35th generation. I kind of forgot about this project for a while. I think this is from roughly the early 1990s. |
36th. |
37. |
Again, scattered attempts to keep the project going. This one is probably from the late 1990s. |
39th. Likely from sometime in the early 2000s. I've got to get this thing going again. |
40. Taken in June of 2005. |
41. Taken 29 May 2008 |
42! Taken 21 June 2008 |
43. 20 August 2008. I might try using this background for the next few shots.... |
44. 17 September 2008. Am sticking with the same background for a while. |
45. Taken 16 December 2008. |
46. Taken 23 December 2008. |
47. I'll go with this background at least until it's the only one visible. 22 January 2009. |
48. 18 February 2009. |
49. 20 May 2009 |
50.! 26 July 2009. I may switch to a different background soon. |
51. I'm temporarily interrupting the current theme for a trip to the Great Wall... |
52. 6 March 2010. |
53. 8 October 2010. |
54. Early 2011. The Great Wall from last year is fading . . . |
55. June 2011. Are you still looking at these? What's wrong with you? |
56. 9 March 2012. Nearly a year since the last one! |
57. 1 Dec 2012. |
58. 6 Jan 2013 |
59. 8 June 2013 |
60. 29 June 2013 |
61. 11 Jan 2015 |
Oh, yeah -- I forgot to mention that the apple was delicious! |