then and again adventures in photography

I have to admit that I was inspired by a

famous

Colorado photographer named

John Fielder

. A

number of years back I had an

opportunity

to watch a

slide show put on by Mr. Fielder promoting his new

photo collection called "Then and Now". What Mr.

Fielder had done was put together a collection of

photos

by William H. Jackson, who made his fame

photographing the Western United States, many,

many, many of Colorado. What Mr.Fielder did with his

collection of Colo. shots is set out to reproduce them,

kind of a study of what has changed and often not

changed in a good 100 yrs. Anyhow, I was inspired to

try my hand at this just for fun, but first I had to find

some photos to

pursue

. I had found a few

locally

, the

Walker Studio I discovered in Montrose had a great

collection but was fairly limited, then I heard about

the

estern photography collection

at the Denver

Public Library. This site turns out to be an

absolute

glory hole of old photos that you can purchase and

down load.

I kind of cheated in that I mostly choose pictures

that I can recognize, then I try to search out the

exact spot from which the photo was taken and, trying

to get as close as

possible

, I will hold the photo up in

one hand and my trusty digital c

amera

in the other to

line up the shot. Being the D.P.L has such a huge

collection I branched away from only Jackson Photos

to include many different views and years.

As I had said

earlier

, it is amazing how much has

changed and just as amazing how much has not, click on

threw if you would like to view my

Then & Again Collection!