Thursday 16th February 2012
As a brief interlude in my posting of my great grandfather George Charles Champion's letters home from Central America in 1879, today's entry features a series of photographs taken by Eadweard Muybridge four years earlier, in 1875. Unfortunately I did not have these pictures with me during my recent visit to Panama, but some of the views I took were uncannily similar to those taken by Muybridge....had I had his images with me, I would have tried to position myself even closer to the exact spots from which he had taken his shots, but even without them, the comparisons are striking. There are several more to come, but here are a first few:
