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How else could you use this powerful idea? Compare the present to the past

One of the things my wife and I did on our vacation recently was tour the Charles W. Morgan, an 1840s wooden whaling ship that is being restored at the Henry B. duPont Preservation Shipyard in Mystic Connecticut.

As we climbed through the narrow doorways and rooms I couldn't help but think of the long dead souls who had manned that ship and sailed it to faraway places.

So my reflections were fresh when I came across a wonderful new website titled Dear Photograph. It captures, through photographs, the idea of matching up images from the present and the past.

It is, in and of itself, a fascinating, touching way of drawing memories from the current reality but the designer in me wants to think of ways of using the same idea in other ways. It's easy to think how the same idea could be used to demonstrate the differences between old products and new products, to document the before and after of a location, and so on.

Any other ideas of how this concept could be used?

Dear Photograph was created by Taylor Jones...

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