How cool.

While visiting beautiful New York City earlier this year, an Australian photographer named Kiernan traveled to the top of the Empire State Building and snapped a photograph of the cityscape. After returning home, he decided to do a reverse image search on Google just to see what he might find. He was surprised to discover that the top result was a nearly identical photograph that was captured 36 years ago.

The [older] photograph, captured by Chicago-based illustrator Ken Smith, has the caption: “Toward lower Manhattan and Wall Street; the twin towers of the 3-year-old World Trade Center are in the distance[…]”.

Kiernan tells us, “I thought it was interesting thing to not only see the difference in New York over the last four decades, but also the power of Google image search and the rather nice surprise that someone else has in history chose to use the exact same composition and focal length so many years before hand.”

from petapixel, suggested by Mandy.

from: petapixel.com

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