Thursday, January 29, 2009

Through the looking glass

I’ve always had a fascination for photography, and an undying love for history.  Combined, the two are an obsession of mine.  I have the distinct privilege of living in an area where there are Civil War battlefields in pretty much every direction, so I frequently get the chance to see places immortalized in famous photographs as they are today. 

Not so much with the second world war, which is why I was floored to find these.  Some enterprising photographer put this gallery together showing modern day Leningrad overlaid with pictures from WW2.  They simply have to be seen to be believed.