A student nurse received a special 21st birthday gift – a 15-minute video montage containing 7,665 of pictures of her, taken each day since her birth on May 16, 1996.

Suman Bansal’s dad Munish Bansal, of Sturdee Avenue, Gillingham, first started taking them to show family in India.

But it quickly turned into a hobby.

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The shots show his daughter happy, sad, asleep, at the swimming pool, in a washing basket and even wearing a witch’s hat.

Bookkeeper Mr Bansal has uploaded each one onto the internet and Suman carried on the tradition when she went to university three years ago.

The proud dad said: “It started off as just a hobby and so I could see the changes in my children day-to-day.

“It was a project really. I never thought it would carry on.

“We used to keep photo albums but now all of the photos are on the computer and we just print off the ones we need.”

Suman, who hopes to qualify as a nurse from Canterbury Christ Church University later this year, said: “I wanted to keep taking pictures because I knew it made my dad happy and allowed family to continue to see me grow.

“By this point it had also become part of my routine and I struggle to sleep if I have forgotten to take a photo.”

She said her favourite part of the video was watching her eyes.

“Later on in the video when I’m older, my eyes stay nearly in the same exact place,” she said.

“Focusing on them you can see everything else changing around them, like my hairstyle and expression.

“It’s quite amazing looking back on them all and I still cannot believe how many there are and that they are all of me.”

Mr Bansal has also created a collage of his daughter, made out of thousands of pictures of her.

Suman said: “I’m sure there are loads of pictures I would be embarrassed about – it’s hard to make a kid smile for every photo.”