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Then and Now Take Two – Minehead Water Tower

This is a regular series of blogs about photographs of the same place taken years apart. I have started to notice is that I have been doing Then and Now photographs unintentionally over the years and have been taking photographs of the same thing or place from the same view or perspective years apart. Now this has come to my attention I have started to intentionally take photographs of the same place.

I remembered taking this photograph at Minehead Station on the West Somerset Railway many years ago, I had a go at recreating it in October 2025 and again in May 2026, this time using an iPhone 17 Pro Max.

I took this photograph in October 2025 using a Canon EOS R100 digital camera.

This photograph was taken in March 2005 using a Canon EOS 300D digital SLR camera.

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Then and Now – York Minster

This is a regular series of blogs about photographs of the same place taken years apart. I quite like those Then and Now comparison photographs that you see in books or on the Twitter or Facebook.  The first of the posts in this series was of a council building in Manchester.

I always thought I should give then and now photographs a go. However what I have started to notice is that I have been doing Then and Now photographs unintentionally over the years and have been taking photographs of the same thing or place from the same view or perspective years apart.

On a recent visit to York in April 2026, walking the city walls I took this photograph of York Minster with an iPhone 17 Pro Max.

Checking back through some older photographs I had taken back in June 2024 I had taken this similar shot with an iPhone 13.

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Then and Now Take Two Again – More Fountains Abbey

This is a regular series of blogs about photographs of the same place taken years apart. I have started to notice is that I have been doing Then and Now photographs unintentionally over the years and have been taking photographs of the same thing or place from the same view or perspective years apart. Now this has come to my attention I have started to intentionally take photographs of the same place.

On my recent visit to Fountains Abbey I decided I would intentionally take photographs that replicated some photographs I had taken back in 1993.

This photograph was taken in 1993, I think it was with a Canon SLR film camera, later it was scanned in as a digital file.

This shot was taken with an iPhone 17 Pro Max.

Some of the photographs I had taken were quite difficult to recreate, as I couldn’t always work out what they were of.

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Then and Now Take Two Again – Fountains Abbey

This is a regular series of blogs about photographs of the same place taken years apart. I have started to notice is that I have been doing Then and Now photographs unintentionally over the years and have been taking photographs of the same thing or place from the same view or perspective years apart. Now this has come to my attention I have started to intentionally take photographs of the same place.

On my recent visit to Fountains Abbey I decided I would intentionally take photographs that replicated some photographs I had taken back in 1993.

This photograph was taken in 1993, I think it was with a Canon SLR film camera, later it was scanned in as a digital file.

This shot was taken with an iPhone 17 Pro Max.

Some of the photographs I had taken were quite difficult to recreate, as I couldn’t always work out what they were of.

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Then and Now Take Two Once More – Cheddar Yeo Sword

This is a regular series of blogs about photographs of the same place taken years apart. I have started to notice is that I have been doing Then and Now photographs unintentionally over the years and have been taking photographs of the same thing or place from the same view or perspective years apart. Now this has come to my attention I have started to intentionally take photographs of the same place.

I took this photograph of the Cheddar Yeo Sword in May 2026 using an iPhone 17 Pro Max.

Cheddar Yeo Sword

I took this photograph of the Cheddar Yeo Sword a month before, in April 2026 using an iPhone 17 Pro Max.

Cheddar Yeo Sword

I took this photograph in August 2025 using an iPhone 13.

Back in January 2024, I was having a short walk in Cheddar after the storms and the Cheddar Yeo stream was a real torrent of water. I took a photograph of the Cheddar Yeo Sword being bombarded by the water. This was taken with an iPhone 13.

I checked my older photographs of Cheddar after taking that photograph and there was this very similar photograph I had taken in Cheddar in May 2021 from almost the same perspective. This was taken with an iPhone 8.

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Then and Now Take Two another time – Minehead Engine Shed

This is a regular series of blogs about photographs of the same place taken years apart. I have started to notice is that I have been doing Then and Now photographs unintentionally over the years and have been taking photographs of the same thing or place from the same view or perspective years apart. Now this has come to my attention I have started to intentionally take photographs of the same place.

I took this photograph at Minehead Station on the West Somerset Railway in May 2026 using an iPhone 17 Pro Max.

Minehead Engine Shed

Here are the other photographs of the same place dating back to September 2004.

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Then and Now Take Two – Clifford’s Tower

This is a regular series of blogs about photographs of the same place taken years apart. I have started to notice is that I have been doing Then and Now photographs unintentionally over the years and have been taking photographs of the same thing or place from the same view or perspective years apart. Now this has come to my attention I have started to intentionally take photographs of the same place.

Clifford’s Tower was the keep of York Castle. I first went to York on a school trip in 1979 and we went up the tower. I didn’t have a camera back then. I made a return visit to York in the summer of 1987 and visited the Tower then as well.

In October 1987 I studied at York University for three years and saw Clifford’s Tower on a regular basis as I went in and out of town. I made a return visit to York in July 1993. It was quite a few years later before I visited again, and this time it was a fleeting visit to the university in March 2006. I also was there for a workshop in April 2009.

My most recent visit to York was in April 2026 and I took this photograph of Clifford’s Tower using an iPhone 17 Max Pro.

Clifford’s Tower

This is my original photograph. We did a family holiday to York in March 2013 and I took this photograph of Clifford’s Tower with an Apple iPhone 4.

Ten years later in September 2023 I was back in York and it was pouring with rain and I quickly took a photograph of Clifford’s Tower with an iPhone 13.

It wasn’t too surprising that it was a similar view to the photo from 2013 with the iPhone 4.

In June 2024 I took this photograph using an iPhone 13.

The window is dark in later photographs as they built some stuff inside, whereas back in 2013 the castle was very open.

This is a regular series of blogs about photographs of the same place taken years apart. I quite like those Then and Now comparison photographs that you see in books or on the Facebook.

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Then and Now Take Two – Marmorkirken

This is a regular series of blogs about photographs of the same place taken years apart. I have started to notice is that I have been doing Then and Now photographs unintentionally over the years and have been taking photographs of the same thing or place from the same view or perspective years apart. Now this has come to my attention I have started to intentionally take photographs of the same place.

The Marmorkirken is an 18th-century Lutheran church with the largest dome in Scandinavia.

I took this photograph of the Marmorkirken in July 2004 using a Sony Cybershot digital camera.

Marmorkirken

When I returned to Copenhagen in March 2026 I took a similar shot using an iPhone 13.

Not quite the same shot, but pretty close.

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Then and Now – Cox’s Mill Hotel

This is a regular series of blogs about photographs of the same place taken years apart. I quite like those Then and Now comparison photographs that you see in books or on the Twitter or Facebook.  The first of the posts in this series was of a council building in Manchester.

I always thought I should give then and now photographs a go. However what I have started to notice is that I have been doing Then and Now photographs unintentionally over the years and have been taking photographs of the same thing or place from the same view or perspective years apart.

After a recent visit to Cheddar I was reviewing some photographs from previous visits and realised I had taken two similar photographs of the (then) historic Cox’s Mill Hotel. This was a hotel built on the site of a former mill dated back to the mid 1800s.

This was taken in August 2013 with a Canon EOS 400D digital camera.

This view of the now boarded up hotel was taken in May 2021 with an iPhone 8.

However in October 2022 the hotel was demolished as it was beyond economic repair and the space has been turned into initially a public space, but is now a motorbike parking area.

This (almost) similar shot was taken in January 2024 with an iPhone 13.

I took this photograph in April 2026 with an iPhone 17 Pro Max of the water area.

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Then and Now Take Two Again – Cheddar Yeo Sword

This is a regular series of blogs about photographs of the same place taken years apart. I have started to notice is that I have been doing Then and Now photographs unintentionally over the years and have been taking photographs of the same thing or place from the same view or perspective years apart. Now this has come to my attention I have started to intentionally take photographs of the same place.

I took this photograph of the Cheddar Yeo Sword in April 2026 using an iPhone 17 Pro Max.

Cheddar Yeo Sword

I took this photograph in August 2025 using an iPhone 13.

Back in January 2024, I was having a short walk in Cheddar after the storms and the Cheddar Yeo stream was a real torrent of water. I took a photograph of the Cheddar Yeo Sword being bombarded by the water.

I checked my older photographs of Cheddar after taking that photograph and there was this very similar photograph I had taken in Cheddar in May 2021 from almost the same perspective.