Every week, he would hover over his newborn daughter Lotte's crib and capture stills.
Those weekly photo shoots continued, even as Lotte began sitting upright, her features growing more defined by the day.
Over a decade later, Hofmeester had taken 600-plus photos of Lotte, tracking the detail of her development in ways that albums and scrapbooks simply can't capture.
Stringing each photo together, Hofmeester created a remarkable time-lapse video of Lotte's evolution from newborn to tween in under three minutes.
Watch it here:
Since Hofmeester posted the video to Vimeo and YouTube last week, it's been viewed over two million times….
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