The Dear Photograph website collects user-submitted photos of a photo from the past in the present, and some great photos have been submitted.

Dear photograph
Some things never change
mikaelagallagher

Head over to the Dear Photograph website, and browse through their collection. Alternatively, dig out some of your old photos, and take your own photos to submit to the website.



The Young Me / Now Me website has user-submitted pairs of photos - where one photo is of the person or people from years ago, and the second photo is of the same person or people in the same location.

Photographer Irina Werning's Back to the Future project takes the concept a step further, taking old photos of people, and then re-creating the scene with the now-older person, using similar looking clothes, hairstyles, lighting and backgrounds.
(Note: some photos in the Irina's collection are NSFW.)



Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg have found a new use for animated gifs, using them to create some very interesting photos with subtle animation that they call "Cinemagraphs".

Have an adventurous weekend, by Jamie Beck

For more examples of these cinemagraphs, head over to Jamie's blog, or see this journal post on redbubble.com with more info and links to tutorials on creating your own cinemagraphs.



For all you keen photographers, you can now buy a piggy bank in the shape of a DSLR camera, called the DSLR Bank.

To help you dream about photography, you can also buy lens pillows, with a wide selection of different lenses available.