mashups

my sister sent me this link to these photo mashups:

http://www.dinosaursandrobots.com/2008/10/ghosts-of-mt-washington.html

i was intriqued and wondered if i could do the same thing with some photos of chicago. i came up with these:


old chicago

new chicago

then i tried to put them together. I'm not sure if i was as anal as the guy who did the mt. washington images, but i think it came out pretty well. the hard part was finding a simple, recent image of the chicago river. isn't that surprising? i think a good project would be to do some research on loc.gov to find some historic images of chicago and then go take my own pics that match up to the old ones and put them together. i'd really like to do a streetcar scene on michigan ave. good luck getting an empty-enough recent street scene to do it.