Main road, early days
Nurses walking through the hospital lines
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3 Australian General Hospital, Lemnos - Then and Now
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b3rn
, Dec 04 2011 01:58 AM
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Posted 04 December 2011 - 01:58 AM
Depth of field is not quite right on these composites but we're in the general area and confident that this broad hilltop housed 3AGH in 1915 and 1916.
Main road, early days
Nurses walking through the hospital lines
Main road, early days
Nurses walking through the hospital lines
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Posted 04 December 2011 - 02:00 AM
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Posted 04 December 2011 - 02:04 AM
Sisters' lines after a storm
Version 2
Village of Nea Koutali - once Sarpi rest camp - across the water
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Posted 04 December 2011 - 02:08 AM
Taken a few hundred metres east of 3AGH (not far from the present Russian memorial) - likely to be 3AGH nurses & officers (?) - the link takes you to the Flickr page where images can be viewed at original size
Evacuation of our troops from the Peninsula. Barges conveyed them from transports to the Island.
The last batch of troops from the Peninsula arriving at Lemnos. Jan. 1916
Evacuation of our troops from the Peninsula. Barges conveyed them from transports to the Island.
The last batch of troops from the Peninsula arriving at Lemnos. Jan. 1916
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Posted 04 December 2011 - 02:22 AM
Very evocative. I particularly liked #4 with the soldiers gazing with their backs to us. Thanks for the trouble you have gone to.
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Posted 05 December 2011 - 06:15 AM
You have put in a lot of effort on these. They are fantastic.
I love the before and after photos and could look at them all day.
Thanks.
Len
I love the before and after photos and could look at them all day.
Thanks.
Len
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Posted 05 December 2011 - 08:46 AM
I have to add a comment as well. They are very well done, especially post 3. Just stunning.
Cheers Andy.
Cheers Andy.
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Posted 05 December 2011 - 08:16 PM
Truly wonderful images. They are really quite stunning and a very interesting approach. Quite unique and I think it adds a new dimension spanning time. Thanks for sharing. MG
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Posted 06 December 2011 - 11:07 AM
Thanks all. I know I'm not the only one that finds 'then and now' photos fascinating. Have a look at the Historypin project, great promise with some large museums/archives partnering with them, and the possibility of crowdsourcing locations and current photographs.
Wendy, the composites are done in Photoshop. You make the top layer (historical photo) opaque, and size/rotate it into place. It helps to take a 'now' photo in the right spot though. My wife has a great eye for that - better than 20/20 vision. Has warned me never to run if she's holding a gun
. That West Mudros peninsula lends itself to these photos as the mountains in the background of the 1915/1916 photos haven't changed and are clearly visible.
I am looking for photos of No. 2 Australian Stationary Hospital when it moved to Mudros West, and of the Canadian & British hospitals there so as to locate those hospitals within the peninsula as well.
Wendy, the composites are done in Photoshop. You make the top layer (historical photo) opaque, and size/rotate it into place. It helps to take a 'now' photo in the right spot though. My wife has a great eye for that - better than 20/20 vision. Has warned me never to run if she's holding a gun
. That West Mudros peninsula lends itself to these photos as the mountains in the background of the 1915/1916 photos haven't changed and are clearly visible.I am looking for photos of No. 2 Australian Stationary Hospital when it moved to Mudros West, and of the Canadian & British hospitals there so as to locate those hospitals within the peninsula as well.
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Posted 09 December 2011 - 07:32 AM
Just love having 'my girls' to the fore - and the background! Many thanks, it's great stuff. I can see great applications for this technology.
cheers
Kirsty
cheers
Kirsty
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Posted 28 April 2012 - 01:46 PM
b3rn, on 10 December 2011 - 01:50 AM, said:
Kirsty - you wouldn't happen to know which nurses are pictured with the blown down tent?
Hi Bern
Sorry for the very delayed reply - I don't know who the nurses are - I presume Savage doesn't say on the originals? I don't recognise them from any portraits that I've seen - we need some face recognition technology me thinks!
cheers
Kirsty
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