Homage Paid To Historic Yellowstone Photographs

Above, Lower Yellowstone Fall. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

"Then and Now" photographs have always been a fascination to me, whether they are of architecture or geography.

A Wyoming photographer has paid homage to historic photographs of Yellowstone National Park. It is interesting to see the changes that have taken place over the years.

According to the Yellowstone Insider:

A Jackson, Wyoming photographer traveled around Yellowstone National Park recently and re-shot nearly every image William Henry Jackson took during the 1871 Hayden Survey. 

Jackson’s photos—along with watercolors by artist Thomas Moran—are often credited with helping convince Congress to pass the Yellowstone Park Act in 1872, establishing the world’s first national park. 

Bradley Boner, 40, a photographer at the Jackson Hole News & Guide, set out between 2011 and 2013, from Paradise Valley north of Gardiner to the southern arms of Yellowstone Lake, to locate the exact location from which Jackson took his now-historic photos and to re-shoot his own images from those same points. 

The result is more than 100 before-and-after photos captured in Boner’s book, Yellowstone National Park: Through the Lens of Time, a beautiful, large format coffee table book published earlier this year by the University Press of Colorado.

To see some examples and to read more, go here.