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Then and Now Take Two – Where’s Santa?
This is a regular series of blogs about photographs of the same place taken years apart. 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. Now this has come to my attention I have started to intentionally take photographs of the same place.
I have taken this view at Cabot Circus a fair few times, one big difference this year is that there is no Santa. This photo was taken in November 2023.
This photograph was taken last year on the 26th November 2022.
I remembered I had taken a photograph in the same location, back on December 8th 2019. I was on my way to do a pick up from the Vue Cinema, so I took a photograph of the festive Cabot Circus.
I also wrote about it back then as well and in that post I used an image I found searching Flickr from December 2012. It would seem I am not alone in taking photographs from that vantage point outside House of Fraser.
I have written a few times about how I have taken photographs of this view of Cabot Circus.
Then and Now Take Three – Cabot Circus
Then and Now Take Two – Cabot Circus
Then and Now, but not alone – Cabot Circus
Then and Now Take Two – Harbourside
This is a regular series of blogs about photographs of the same place taken years apart. 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. Now this has come to my attention I have started to intentionally take photographs of the same place.
After going through some old photographs I found some of the Bristol Harbourside, so decided to go back to where I had taken these then photographs and take some new now photographs.
I took this photograph at the same time as I took the one of the industrial museum. It was taken either in 1995 or 1996. It was taken with my Canon SLR using film.
I wasn’t exactly sure which vantage point I had taken the original image.
Now we can see Peros Bridge which opened in 1999. The old Bristol and West building is now a hotel with new cladding.
The sheds are now bars and restaurants, back in 1995 we had the Watershed.
Then and Now Take Two – The Industrial Museum
This is a regular series of blogs about photographs of the same place taken years apart. 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. Now this has come to my attention I have started to intentionally take photographs of the same place.
After going through some old photographs I found some of the Bristol Harbourside, so decided to go back to where I had taken these then photographs and take some new now photographs.
I took this photograph of the Industrial Museum on the Bristol Harbourside either in 1995 or 1996. It was taken with my Canon SLR using film.
I wasn’t exactly sure which vantage point I had taken the original image. The broken guardrail had been fixed.
Of course the Industrial Museum as was, was closed and replaced with the MShed
The railway tracks have also gone.
Find it interesting that the Balmoral is in both photographs in roughly the same place.
Then and Now – Broadmead
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.
Now this has come to my attention I have started to intentionally take photographs of the same place.
After Cabot Circus was completed there was a bridge at one end looking down Broadmead.
I first took a photograph down Broadmead in November 2015. I then used Snapseed to enhance the image. The original image was taken with an iPhone 6s Plus.
I took another shot from the same location in November 2017. This image was also taken with an iPhone 6s Plus.
It was then four years later in November 2021 that I took a similar photograph. This time I took the photograph was taken with an iPhone 8. This was much better at capturing photographs in low light.
The next one was a month later in daytime, in December 2021. Also taken with an iPhone 8.
A year later in December 2022 I took the same photograph again, this time with an iPhone 13.
So when I was in Broadmead in July 2023, so using my iPhone 13 I took the same photograph (this time intentionally).
