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you or your family and where you live. Or people heading off to work or school. Use context and detail. Take a photo of the workplace, the office, the people you work with, their faces. Take a picture of the school, the classrooms, your class, the faces of friends, your teachers, others. Use the camera to tell your stoiy. Make it a slice-of-life.

Interested in recording how the nearest village or hamlet appears in the Year 2000? Take views up and down the streets as a baseline, or photos of individual buildings. Don’t forget to notice details - people, plants, animals, traffic, and architectural features - and their interaction. They add to your story. Take photos of the village or hamlet in a snowfall. Or spring, when low sunshine lights up the thin green leaves. If you own a store or some other establishment, get some photos inside, of things on shelves or on walls, and candid pictures of the staff and others. Unless photos are taken, there will be no pictorial record of how things looked in the Year 2000.

You know how those old photos of the early cars and trucks look? Everything - headlights, fenders, bumpers, running boards, radiators caps - is sticking out on its own, not tucked away into the car body. Seventy years from the Year 2000, your present vehicle may have a similarly odd appearance. Best to capture now the 2000 look of giant tractortrailers, huge sports utility vehicles, beat-up pickup trucks, or farm equipment moving along a road

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