I see more and more amazing examples of “colorized” (You have to use the US spelling to get more results on Google) photos and “ghosts of history” photos. New technology is really bringing history to life. Look at these two photos:
The original, from Reddit. The comments at the bottom of the Reddit stream are worth reading.
The “Ghost of History” version, combining the old and new version: (see Reddit comments here)
Even more amazing is that you can use this Google ‘photosphere’ (below) to look around in Oberdorla in Germany. By the way, this made me realise that Germany is the ONLY Western European country that has not been fully covered by Google Streetview.
Here is the image pinned on History pin. It’s in Oberdorla, a tiny village:
There are many more of these photos. For example, have a look at these nine haunting Then-And-Now photos of World War II, created by Dutch historian Jo Teuwisse who has combined digitised photo negatives from the war with painstakingly framed photos of the same locations as they are today.
This is a Gif which shows how the creative process works:
