Ghosts of the past

[Keith Webb]

There's a Facebook group called Questmasters Museum who have posted some interesting now and then composite pics such as this one:

More pics here.

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Keith

Some these really have a ghostly quality, others less so, but either way somebody put a lot of effort. I wonder if the images used in the merging are working from the images in Then and Now Magazine.

Recently I got the first volume of D-Day Then and Now printed back in 1995, I've had second volume for years. Looking through them I was thinking it would be kind of interesting for MV owners in France to take a photo of their vehicle now in the same spot as some of the historical ones.

Then again with images from historical you could insert your own MV into almost any image just by matching the angle the original picture was taken from, of course for a true match you would also have to take into account shadow angles.

Years ago we talked about hanging a very large blue tarp (poor mans blue screen) at our summer rally to take pictures of MVs in front of, then the images could be inserted into historical images. For the "You Were There" photo. Unfortunately we never got it organized.

Will have to post a link to the photo you found to our club newsletter.

Cheers Phil

[David Dunlop]

Keith.

Sometime last summer or fall, I ran across an internet news item about a photographer, I think in Holland, who had found one or more rolls of film taken during the war in France. He was able to trace the actual locations of the photos and did similar work, fully overlaying the old image with a new colour shot of the same location. Amazingly haunting images! I recall one of several German prisoners in front of a shop with an American soldier guarding them. Very strange to see people today walking by the same spot completely unaware of the history they were surrounded by.

David