Activity - recreating historic photos

Geograph is very good for documenting change, in particular going out to recreate a particular view shown in an older photograph - to show what, if anything, has changed.

You can of course recreate any view, but below are tips for recreating two specific types of images.

Recreating a Geograph Photo

Find a Geograph photo you want to recreate, and submit a new version.

Try to stand in the same place as the original photographer, and if possible crop the photo as close as possible to the original image. You could also crop the new photo on your computer.

You can then submit the pair to Same view different time (& same view same day) themed topic in the forum. This will automatically create a new page for the pair, and link it in the sidebar beside each photo.

Example page

You could also create an article documenting the change, see
Link

Recreating a Francis Frith Photo

The Francis Frith Collection contains many interesting historic images, many from 100 years ago or more.

Again you can recreate a particular photograph and upload it to Geograph.

When you submit your new photo, include a web-link to the original photo from francisfrith.com in your photo description.

Example:


In so doing we can display the images together, a prototype is visible here

We have a basic listing available here of other examples, with time will make a better presentation of images so 'recreated'.

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