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Summer Wine
Joined: 20 Mar 2005
Location: Next to a River
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 Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 9:08 pm Post subject: Scotland's ever-changing scenery |
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In Scotland, the landscape is one of our great resources - whether for tourism, agriculture or industry. It has shaped the Scottish nation and, for all it appears a great wilderness, much of it has been shaped by us.
To illustrate this online, we used rephotography - the act of taking a new version of an existing photograph - to create a "then and now" view of a location. The two images can then be compared, highlighting what has changed and what has remained the same - select one of the six scenes below and use the slider at the top of the picture to see the same view through the ages.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12019593
I would love to see something similar with my country. Its amazing to see some of the changes, but also how people lived at that time.
Its worth a look.
You click at the date at the top of the picture and the slider moves across showing the changes. 1883 or 2010 etc |
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: the eye
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| Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 5:17 am Post subject: |
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Lovely.
What I find a little sad is that modern humans have lost that vital daily relationship to the land that everyone used to have. Every feature in the landscape had a purpose - wether it offered shelter, food, timber, could be fished, had folklore attached to it, or whatever.
It used to be a living landscape. Nowdays most people look upon it and sense nothing. It has become meaningless. |
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Globutron
Joined: 13 Feb 2010
Location: England/Anyang
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| Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 5:37 am Post subject: |
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The changes you can see in the photos of Korea from then and now are way more impressive. I could even speculate this is a sarcastic link. there is barely any change. A bit more grass in one photo, a bit more water in another.
A couple had factories removed, that's about it.
But Scotland is nice, and yeah I agree people feel nothing these days. I often stare in the sky and wonder, or just watch birds eating stuff out of a tree in my preparation time at work or whatever. I wonder how many people do that at all.
My excitement for the Lunar Eclipse went ignored, and one K-staff said 'oh that's nice... I don't really have any interest with the sky'.
That's fair and all but it just seems a little... unhuman? it feels ingrained in me to stare and wonder at it.
And no I don't mean 'oo stars, I wonder how they got there'. I think we're all ahead of that now. |
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