40 Before And After Pics That Perfectly Capture Dramatic Change

Sometimes, the best way to appreciate change is to see it with your own eyes. While we often overlook the slow progress we make each day, time has a way of stacking those little efforts into something monumental. Whether it’s a fitness transformation, a restored object, or a city skyline evolving over the decades, change is all around us—and it’s powerful.

#1 This Blue Jay Still Has Half Of Their Baby Feathers

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#2 Before And After Processing Of The Andromeda Galaxy From My Backyard

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#3 My Mom’s Passport Photos Before And After The Iranian Revolution. 1978 On The Left, 1984 On The Right With Mandatory Hijabs

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#4 I Rescued The Cat Off The Street. Photos Before And After. One Year Difference

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#5 A Friend’s Aunt Gifted Me Her Deceased Fathers Car. “If You Think You Can Get It Running, You Can Have It”. Before vs. After

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#6 A Drawing Comparison Between 2015 And 2017. Both Are My Drawings

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#7 May 2024 vs. May 2025

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#8 My Parents & Their First House In 1963 And Today

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#9 Ax From Viking Era, Before And After Conservation 10th–11th Century

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#10 My Ewes Before And After Shearing Yesterday

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#11 Before And After Powerwashing. New York Used To Be A Much Dirtier City Back When The Northeast Ran On Coal Plants

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#12 Before-And-After Cleaning Of A 300-Year-Old Silver-Inlaid Sword Pommel

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#13 Hair Shrinkage Compared To Hair Straightener

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#14 I’m An Art Teacher And I Moved To A New School This Past Summer. The Previous Teacher Did Not Share My Love Of Organization. Behold The Before And After

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#15 My Collection Showing The Evolution Of Portable Data Storage Over The Past 45 Years

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#16 This Is My First Paint Layer Side By Side With My Finished Painting

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#17 This Painting Shows The Devastating Effects Centuries Of Cigarette Smoke Has On Art

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#18 Was Driving To A Kids Swim Meet And Had To Stop To Take This Picture. New vs. Old

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#19 Modern Tomato vs. One Grown From 150 Year Old Seeds

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#20 Before And After Of The Excavation Of The Ancient Greek Stadium

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#21 Before And After Of A Man Who Walked Across China For A Year

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#22 Southern California Before And After A Wet Winter

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#23 Metro Manila Before And After Quarantine

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#24 Old vs. New. Ballet Pointe Shoes

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#25 Found My Old College Notes. Before And After I Started Taking ADD Meds

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#26 Concrete Before And After Stamping It For A Stone Tile Look

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#27 Before & After. A Rough Larimar Stone Polished Into A Cabochon For Jewelry Use

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#28 Evolution Of Gaming Graphics

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#29 My Brain Before And After Brain Surgery

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#30 Mt. St. Helens Before And After Eruption

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#31 Before And After Of A Property We Cleaned Up Today

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#32 A Girl Said She’d Come Over, So I Just Did A Quick Vacuum

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#33 Before Watering And About An Hour After Watering

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#34 Sheepdog Before And After A Lil Haircut

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#35 Before And After Of A Hoarders House We Cleaned Out. Ready To Renovate

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#36 Crisp Block Of One Dollar USD vs. A Circulated Stack

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#37 New Sewing Needle vs. Sewing Needle After For Months Of Sewing

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#38 Before/After Of A Cosplay Photo I Took Out In The California Desert

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#39 This Trail Before And After Logging

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#40 Diying My Basement. Home Built In 1966, Old Wood vs. New Wood

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