A devoted dad has turned of photographs taken of his son every day for the last three decades into a mesmerising time-lapse video.<br /><br />Ian McLeod, 66, started taking pictures of his son Cory from his birth in 1991.<br /><br />Cory, now 31, continued the routine by taking a selfie every day even when he moved away for university and travelled around the world.<br /><br />Their combined collection has now been turned into a stunning video charting Cory’s life using almost 11,000 pictures taken between his birth and his 30th birthday.<br /><br />The eight-minute long clip speeds through pictures of him as a toddler, blowing out candles on his 21st birthday cake and later travelling to more than 60 countries.<br /><br />Ian initially intended to make a flick book charting the early years of his son’s life, but his labour of love continued into the digital age.<br /><br />Cory said: “My mum and my dad were very artistic people and they met at art college, so they are creative people. <br /><br />"He said he had a glass of wine before I was born and he had an idea to make a flick book.<br /><br />"This was obviously pre-internet and pre-digital so that was all it was going to be. <br /><br />"Once he got to two years, he thought he would get to three years and then it got to four years and five years and just kept going. <br /><br />“To me, it's a very unique piece of art and I hope my dad gets some kind of recognition.”<br /><br />The touching footage documents Cory's schooldays, birthdays, football matches, starting university and even him travelling around Australia. <br /><br />It also shows him enjoying a family Christmas, starting a new job after moving to Dubai and visiting Tenzing-Hillary Airport, the most dangerous airport in the world. <br /><br />It comes 10 years after Ian made a similar clip for Cory’s 21st birthday, which became an internet sensation, wracking up more than six million views on YouTube.<br /><br />Ian, of Harrogate, North Yorks., took on the project thinking he would stick to it for a year or two, but he duly stuck to his routine of taking his son's picture almost every day.<br /><br />Minor mishaps lead to a couple of gaps in the album, including a whole month's worth of pictures that were lost when the film in his camera wasn't winding.<br /><br />On another occasion it was stolen during a family holiday in Chile and at other times, the clock slipped past midnight before Ian realised he hadn't taken a picture.<br /><br />Persistent Ian would make Cory’s teachers take daily pictures on school trips and wake the young lad up in the night if they forgot to take one that day.<br /><br />While Ian took the pictures in the early days, when Cory moved to Leeds for university and later went to live in Dubai, he continued the family tradition with a daily selfie.<br /><br />He has now used them in a book detailing the ‘stories behind the photos’.<br /><br />And he has no plans to stop now he's 'come this far' and thinks he will be the 'first person to do it from birth to death'.
