Given the focus on health in birth cohort studies, the importance of physical and mental well-being was a common theme in the pictures taken by all participants. This included getting fitter and stronger, maintaining health, encounters with hospitals, the experience of ill health, or how COVID had reshaped ideas around well-being. For many there was also an emphasis on thinking about good mental health framed through a sense of enjoyment, whether this was taking a walk in nature or spending time with friends. Abstract photos also conveyed the need for moments of quiet contemplation in daily life.