Women sport fashionable panung on the Memorial Bridge while a 19th century man poses beside the Wat Phra Kaew of today in a composite of old and rare photos stitched into their contemporary settings.
Recreating angles and vantage points and wielding the magic of Photoshop, people have recently made an online thing out of posting photos featuring people and sites from decades and centuries past reframed in the present.
A number of images result from strategic use of Google Street View to find the correct vantage point.
Here are some cool examples posted to Pantip by “Noom Rattana” on Pantip under the name “Shadows of the Past.”
The field in front of Dusit Palace
The Marble Temple being visited by King Chulalongkorn (Rama V)
A lord having his photo taken at Wat Phra Kaew in the 1800s.
Ta Tian Market, Phra Nakhon district
The opening ceremony for the Memorial Bridge, or Saphan Phra Phuttha Yodfa, in 1932
Women wearing traditional panung on the Memorial Bridge
The Giant Swing and Bamrung Muang Road.
King Mongkut (Rama IV) visits Wat Pho.
The Pak Khlong Talat market area
Prince Paribatra Sukhumbhand in front of Phichaiyat Temple in the Khlong San district
The Grand Palace
Erawan Shrine near BTS Chidlom.
Hua Lamphong terminal
Maha Ruek Fort before it was knocked down, Phra Nakhon district
Chak Phet Road
An electric trolley service opens in the Dusit district in 1888.
Charoen Krung Road
Photos: Noom Rattana
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