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These cool images belong to Shawn Clover, a San Francisco-based photographer. They are a part of his special album named 1906 + 2010: The Earthquake Blend featuring photographs captured during the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake blended into views of what the city currently looks like.
Debris next to trams, charred walls above pedestrians and dead horses in front of a brand new Mercedes S. Those “photo mash-ups” of the ruins with the modern day cityscape, goes beyond the typical setup of “then and now” photos.
He says and I quote;
“To put these photos together, I first create a catalog of historical photos that look like they have potential to be blended. Unfortunately most of these photos end up on the digital cutting room floor because there’s simply no way to get the same photo today because either a building or a tree is in the way. Once I get a good location, I get everything lined up just right. My goal is to stand in the exact spot where the original photographer stood. Doing this needs to take into account equivalent focal length, how the lens was shifted, light conditions, etc. I take plenty of shots, each nudged around a bit at each location. Just moving one foot to the left changes everything.”
You can check out his original set of photos here, and a more recently published set here.
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