his 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 visited Finland for a conference in Espoo back in July 2006. I had some time before my flight home, so took a bus to visit the centre of Helsinki.
Johan Ludvig Runeberg was a Finnish priest, lyric and epic poet. He wrote exclusively in Swedish. He is considered a national poet of Finland.
I took this photograph in July 2006 with a Sony DSC-P200 digital camera.
I took a similar photograph in February 2025 with a Canon EOS R100.
I was back in Helsinki for a workshop, so took the time to retake the photo. Not too much has changed over the last nineteen years, though the fact one was taken in summer and the other in winter.