This will be an irregular series of posts - in these posts I'm going to look back into my archive to see what photos I took this day in previous years 

This 'Not from Today' but it is from the 4th of May

Four shots today spread over 10 years and three continents, working backwards

2019 - Baboons at Melbourne Zoo - I had bought a new lens for a upcoming holiday to Kenya and Tanzania, and I needed to test it, also I wasn't used to shooting wildlife so I thought practice was necessary - I like the backlighting in this shot

![4th of May 2019.JPG](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/harveyword/n5HIy2j0-4th20of20May202019.JPG)

2018 - I was playing around with Natural density filters - this is a 26 second shot. It's taken from a floating pier of some of the apartment buildings of Docklands Melbourne. 

![4th of May 2018.JPG](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/harveyword/Vas87P1d-4th20of20May202018.JPG)

2011 - Alcatraz in San Francisco on my first trip to the US of A - by this point of the holiday we had spent a week in New York with my brother, then spent some time in Washington and were on our way home - sort of - I really liked San Francisco and I loved my day on Alcatraz, as you can see it was a perfect spring day 

![4th of May 2011.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/harveyword/iHJjpekX-4th20of20May202011.jpg)

2009 - This is London, absolutely typical London. This was my first big trip overseas, I'd tooled around the south pacific, gone back and forth to New Zealand a few times but this was the first time that I'd spent 20 something hours on a place going to the other side of the world. My now wife convinced me to go, her best friend/ex housemate was living in London at the time so we were visiting her, I was just amazed at a true 'big city' 

![4th of May 2009.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/harveyword/fesIPGNH-4th20of20May202009.jpg)

And that my friends was my life on the 4th of May but not from today, because let's face it I'm not going anywhere today.