As stated in previous posts, I like to try and reproduce views taken in 1930s-40s (or earlier) such as this photo which comes from an old travel guide. Because of its age I believe the photo is out of copyright but if I am wrong and you are the copyright holder then please contact me.
Earlier this month I visited the old village of Weobley to try and take a similar view. Despite taking a copy of the original photo with me, the alignment wasn’t as good as I hoped. This is the original photo I was trying to replicate:
And this is the current view that I took in June:
At first glance the view looks pretty much the same apart from the modern cars and more greenery obscuring the church and other buildings. However, when I tried overlaying the modern view over the old the alignment was way out as you can see:
This had me puzzled so I printed off the two versions and sat down with a ruler and pen to see what was wrong. As you can see in this next version I have used red lines to mark some of the major differences. Left-to-right isn’t too bad but top-to-bottom is way out of alignment:
I think the major problem was that the original was taken from a much lower viewpoint and the camera was either a little further forward, or to the left a little, or both.
It is interesting to see that the old buildings haven’t changed much but some chimneys have been removed or changed, there are some new buildings on the left, and the inevitable telephone wires and TV aerials have appeared.
I need to make another visit!