Considering the title of this blog, I feel honour-bound to alert you to this lovely set of balloon-photos.

Personally, I like this one:

I’ve just stumbled across this amazing phenomenon on Flickr. Take a look at this image:

by Jason E. Powell

I was pretty struck by the simplicity of the idea: take an old photo, hold it up so it is contiguous with the location as it is now, and snap. Afterwards, you can make all kinds of grandiose statements about change and progress and stuff, but I think the beauty of it is that it needs no real explanation. Compare and contrast and marvel.

Turns out, there is a whole community devoted to doing this on Flickr (I love the internet). They call it ‘Looking into the Past’. Some of the images are real, some are created with software, but they are all arresting.

This one’s my personal favourite, although I would highly recommend you browse the whole gallery.

by Jason E. Powell

She’s walking a rabbit, for goodness’ sake.

Say you want an image like this:

I mean, who wouldn’t?

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