{"id":9637,"date":"2017-09-23T08:39:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T12:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=9637"},"modified":"2017-09-21T22:52:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T02:52:15","slug":"toronto-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/toronto-then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto then and now&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9638\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/TN-Toronto-1931-2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9638\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9638\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/TN-Toronto-1931-2013-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"105\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9638\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toronto Down town in 1931 and 2013.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Then and now photos of the same part of a city have been appealing for many years. My good friend George Dunbar used various techniques over the years to allow this great city to be compared. I first saw this idea in books by Mike Filey years back.<\/p>\n<p>More recently various photographers have interpreted the growth of both Toronto and Montreal by recording the today at the same cross street and with a modern camera and lens using roughly the same field of view so one can see the city&#8217;s progress (well, change anyway).<\/p>\n<p>George experimented at times with photos that were part old monochrome images and modern day colour images carefully blended in Photoshop. This 1931 vs.2013 example looks to be a panorama shot of downtown Toronto. You can see parts of the same two buildings in each shot, and also part of the Lakeshore. Click on the small image<a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/TN-Toronto-1931-2013.jpg\"> or here<\/a> to see the photos at a \u00a0more comfortable size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Then and now photos of the same part of a city have been appealing for many years. My good friend George Dunbar used various techniques over the years to allow this great city to be compared. I first saw &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/toronto-then-and-now\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[705],"tags":[980,613,1429,59],"class_list":["post-9637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","tag-dunbar","tag-photo","tag-then-and-now","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9641,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9637\/revisions\/9641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}