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Then and Now Take Two Once More – Birmingham

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.

Next door to the ICC in Birmingham is a canal and there is a bridge across there from Brindley Place, and it would appear quite often when crossing the bridge I would take a photograph down the canal looking towards the what was the NIA (National Indoor Arena) and is now known as the Utilita Arena Birmingham.

Over the years I have taken this view from the bridge over the canal to the ICC quite a few times, both unintentionally and now intentionally.

This photograph was taken in September 2026 using an iPhone 17 Pro Max.

Here are the photographs from over the years taken of the same view.

It would also not surprise you that I have a similar set of photographs looking the other way…

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Then and Now Take Two Again – Black Sabbath Bridge

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.

Over the years I have taken this view from the bridge over the canal to the ICC quite a few times, both unintentionally and now intentionally.

This photograph was taken in September 2026 using an iPhone 17 Pro Max.

Here are the photographs from over the years taken of the same view.

The Black Sabbath Bridge is a tribute attraction to celebrate the Birmingham metal band, Black Sabbath.

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Then and Now Take Two Again – Portishead Marina

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 Portishead Marina in August 2026 using an iPhone 17 Pro Max.

Here are the other photographs from the same viewpoint and perspective.

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Then and Now – Baddesley Clinton Hall

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 Baddesley Clinton Hall I took this photograph of the house in the moat with an iPhone 17 Pro Max.

Going through my photographs of my previous visit to the property I noted I had taken this very similar photograph with an Apple iPhone 13.

Not too surprising as the composition of the two sides of the house reflecting in the moat works well.

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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.