Ghosts of WW2 - Sergey Larenkov's photos

Hadn't seen these before and I guess to
be honest I wouldn't have searched for
the subject neither, thanks for bringing it
to the top, very interesting shots I have
100 hundreds of photos that I could do
this with....I guess a retierment project...lol

 

More Larenkov photos here

http://pics.livejournal.com/sergey_larenkov/pic/000900p3

And on the following pages...

http://pics.livejournal.com/sergey_larenkov/pic/0006p5b2

Moscow, June 22nd 1941

http://pics.livejournal.com/sergey_larenkov/pic/00093b5s

 

Larenkov's work is amazing. That picture of Moscow in present day/1941 is stunning, really evocative.

 

The photos are super - especially the first one in this thread. Not seen anything like them before.

 

A friend of mine posted this on Facebook. Not sure if this has been posted before, but here goes.

Some great photos from the war mixed with new photos of the exact same location.

From Paris: Ghosts of World War II: Paris (6 photos + interview) - My Modern Metropolis

A few from Berlin and Russia(?):
The Ghosts of World War II's Past (20 photos) - My Modern Metropolis

 

Trieste, 2007.

My wife and I were on our way to a week's stay in Venice when I twisted her arm and we arranged to spend three nights in Trieste on the way out, a city to which I had never returned since 1946.

At 0600hrs, leaving she who must be obeyed sleeping in the hotel, I made my way to Piazza Goldoni armed only with a map, my camera and a snap from my Army Album showing me sitting on a balustrade with the square behind me.

The map indicated that I must now turn right, so I did, and then the time machine told me I had reached my destination. I was back in 1946.............. no mistake and no possible argument.

I was aged 23 again, feeling much fitter and certainly stones lighter.......... I was a young man with the war over and my life before me.

The square was just as I knew it and I wandered round and marveled at my ability to cast myself back into a long gone era. I took photos to prove to myself that I had returned and that all was as I'd left it.


Ron

 

Worth looking at Blitz Ghost - Surrey Street Bus Station 1940 > 2011 | Flickr - Photo Sharing! for some domestic Blitz Ghosts

 

these pictures are amazing

 

That's fine too, snake. Perhaps if the statue were a smidgen to the right it would be perfect But then the buildings behind would be out of alignment. I see one needs lots of patience to take the modern photo at the same exact angle!

You can use the distort & other tools in Photoshop to line them up

 

Looking at these photos gives you a strange sense of the past and the present coming together. Yet for those with memories of that time, I can believe that the past and the present are always within reach.

 

Normally I look at EnglishRusssia.com with misgivings, but I found these photos very interesting.

http://englishrussia.com/2013/05/04/wwii-as-it-really-was/#more-123092

On page 2 some photos of Normandie-Niemen.

 

good day za rodinn,08 may,2010.12:35pm.re:ghost of ww2,truly amazing photos,just a question! is the Russian city stalinggrad? a most unusual post,thank you for posting,bernard85

 

Thank you very much for your kind comments, Bernard. There are several cities that can be seen, but none shows the obvious landmarks of Stalingrad, and I have no idea of what they may specifically be, but war has laid its heavy hand on all of them. The sequence of three photos near the end of page two might be an East Prussian city, with Hindenburg's statue and all.

 

Another mixed bag of photos from EnglishRussia, some well known, most I hadn'rt seen before.

About 1/3, a Finnish Buffalo in a Malta-lookalike camouflage