Stories about those days.

The stories that people have about Jamie’s photos are a source of amazement.  Some are of the “that’s me and we were doing this” type of stories from Jamie’s friends. Some are the “I never met Jamie but this was taken on my birthday and it means a lot to me. And some are just stunningly moving one of a kind stories.

  • From Valeria Fuma on 02-09-90

    One of the most important days of my life: the day my sister Lucía was born.

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  • From Valeria Fuma on 02-06-86

    This is the day I was born. I loved Jamie Livingston’s story.

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  • From Michael on 10-17-79

    The birthday of the beautiful woman who loves me. I am forever grateful to this universe for making her. Without this day I might have never know my own daughters. I might have never known how strong love can truly be. I might have not made it this far on my own.
    The single most important day in my life and it took almost 25 years to even start finding that out.

    Thank you Jamie for taking the all these beautiful pictures. Your eye was special. Thank you Hugh for showing it to me. It has allowed me to reflect on the things I hold most dear.

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  • From Isaac Nicol-smith on 02-25-95

    every days a story. i hope that when you find this you are living in a good one. x

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  • From Isaac Nicol-smith on 11-20-95

    they day i was born, a week late and very ill. still alive though. glad of it.

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  • From banana on 12-01-85

    This is the day that I entered this darned world.

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  • From Matt Plaia on 05-24-92

    I was born on this day. I wish I could’ve met Hugh. Seems like he was a great man.

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  • From Paula Back on 04-03-92

    Was born this day too, love the picture. So simple yet so beautiful.

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  • From Oscar on 01-22-90

    My birthday also, This, I like this, great idea

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  • From Keri villescas on 10-17-86

    Me 4

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  • From paolo on 01-11-88

    the day I was born

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  • From Dj on 05-01-90

    I don’t remember the time this is my birthday

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  • From Kayleigh C Blackmore on 10-09-91

    This was the day I was born!

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  • From Jtown on 06-22-86

    A good one for my birthday. Thank you for posting these up.

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  • From Aleksandr M on 04-21-87

    Kutuzov USSR 5 am over here haha

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  • From Spencer Shane Christopher on 09-22-86

    I was born on this day

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  • From Daniel Roberts on 05-21-97

    What a characteristic photo for my birthday. What an amazing series.

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  • From Nora denifer on 03-14-91

    My birthday and I love to ski too.

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  • From Alexandra on 07-06-86

    The day I was born, 4,681 miles away.

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  • From Ben on 09-10-79

    I was entered this world.

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  • From Charlotta Tjärdahl on 12-03-89

    The day I was born. And others soon to join in obviously 🙂

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  • From Chris Holgate on 09-13-88

    No wait it was actually this day. My bad.

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  • From Chris Holgate on 09-14-88

    I was born this day 🙂

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  • From Jonas on 02-07-92

    I was born in 92′, on this very day, the 7th of February.
    My mother was rushed in to the hospital in the worst snowstorm that had ever struck my hometown since they started measuring weather in 1889. She always mention that it was such a hassle to get to the hospital every time we talk about that.

    Somehow, I managed to turn out rather okay. I’m soon turning 25 and I’m going to school to become an engineer. I recently moved to a new town here in Sweden and I’ve made some loosely connected friends. However I did just find out that the girl I was with for four years up until august this year announced that she’s getting engaged with some new guy she met. I asked her to marry me, and that’s why she left me. At first I didn’t believe it, but according to a mutual friend this guy propsed with a ring “the size of an apple”. The ring I propsed with wasn’t, but I really hope that wasn’t the reason for her to make the decision that she did.

    I love this site, and I appreciate you for keeping it up.

    Thank you.

    Jonas

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    • From Elicia on 02-07-92

      Hi Jonas,

      I’m sorry to hear that. This day too is my birthday. I took it hard turning 25. But new chapters for the both of us. Here’s some love from CT to Sweden!❤

      Elicia Y.

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  • From Jesse on 04-08-90

    The day I was born. 2 months premature and with a weird infection that almost killed me as well as my mother. So just like Phil a broken day.

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  • From R McClellan on 12-25-81

    This picture was taken on the day I was born. I figured this picture would have been something having to do with Christmas but thanks to me coming, my parents Christmas also had nothing to do with the holiday. Real life happens on the holidays as well.

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    • From Xiao Pan on 12-25-81

      This is my birthday too! 18 years before I was actually born, birthday twins!

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  • From Brent on 10-02-90

    I was born on this day

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  • From Daniel on 11-10-87

    This was the day I nearly died trying to greet the world with my presence

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  • From Sean on 12-31-89

    On this day, I was born.

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  • From Käkkädää on 11-30-90

    This was the day I was born at 08:28 UTC+02:00, during a snowy day in Finland. It is so interesting to see a place so different from the same time (not that I remember a thing from my first day alive).

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  • From Peter Sweetland on 10-25-79

    This was on my 18th birthday in 1979.

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  • From SCG on 10-07-89

    the day i was born, Saturday October 7th 1989, my father was unable to be there because he was working on a microchip that would be on a satellite orbiting the earth. my mother was so angry with him for missing it. Instead, to celebrate his first and only child, he wrote my initials on the microchip and sent it off into space.

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  • From moira on 07-17-97

    the day i was born. love you jamie

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  • From Austin on 07-11-82

    This is my birthday and I’ve felt all my life that I walk a narrow path along the light between massive walls of darkness. Fitting 🙂

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    • From Justin on 07-11-82

      It’s the day I was born as well. I also connect very much to this photo..

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  • From Gene Detherage on 05-19-90

    Found this site through Imgur.
    This is my birthday.
    I often feel the way this photo communicates its emotion.

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  • From Adam on 12-26-91

    Fascinating, it shows that life was simply going on as normal even though this was probably one of, if not the most important day of the 20th century: the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

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    • From Lily ANDREWS on 12-26-91

      Yes. This photo would have been very different had Livingston been in Soviet Russia.

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  • From Jason on 09-19-81

    I was born today.

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  • From Joshua McElwee on 03-03-96

    I also was born on this day

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  • From Keli on 07-03-88

    This was the day I was born too, in New Hampshire. This picture reminds me of me and my brothers.

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  • From Art on 06-14-79

    This photo is erie to me. The blurriness of it, the darkness. It’s the day my wife died. She was 28. We were married 13 days short of two years.

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  • From Hunter on 07-03-80

    This was my birthday. My mom loves to tell me how unbearably hot it was that day and how she remembers lying in the hospital bed watching the weatherman fry eggs on the pavement on the midday news.

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    • From Jiggle Billy on 07-03-80

      Ha, this is my birthday, too, and it was also insanely hot where I was born!

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    • From Cyndi McMurrian on 07-03-80

      This was my birthday as well. Some family friends worked at the hospital where i was born. My mom and dad took off to party because it was so close to independence day. I guess I learned to be independent early 🙂 I had many family and friends to see me thru, and still do! I love the story of the photographer more than my own.

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  • From Alex on 07-12-80

    Now we need to go see the photo 9 months earlier than this.

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  • From Davis on 12-23-94

    ^mom?

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  • From Olivia McDonald on 02-22-93

    I can’t help but feel tears welling up and a tightness in my chest looking at this vast collection. But it’s not so much sadness as it is happiness. His life looked to be full of adventure and friends that loved him. I hope that I can live my life as much as he lived his and find the friends that will make every day a new adventure.
    This was the day I was born. I really like it. Looks like he was playing with light leaks while waiting for something with his friends.

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  • From Sarah on 04-05-89

    I was born this day! 😊

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  • From Aaron on 08-03-79

    Me too

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  • From shelly snider on 07-22-80

    This was on my Birthday!

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  • From Chas phyle on 05-29-96

    This is the day I was born ironically I have the same outfit as the guy.

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  • From Chad Hancock on 04-03-84

    I was born this day. I heard the story about the photographer….I had to see the world through anothers his reality. Apparently, it was something great. Thank you.
    Chad

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  • From Tracie on 02-06-84

    This was the day I was born in NC.

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