Historical Facts and Statistics: Blended photos with modern times.

Here is a collection of my photography of photos blended with modern times. Be sure to follow my blog for more blended photography. I'm using Adobe Photoshop cc.

After many years the dragon is awaken from its stupor. It would destroy their village and feast upon their souls. It was thought to be an old wives' tales of a great beast that once lived in an ancient cavern. The day of reckoning has arrived.

The Aft Grand Staircase aboard the Titanic in its former glory. Now lies 12,500 feet below the sea off the coast of Newfoundland.

Niagara Fall was turned off in 1969 for six months during a geological servey of the fall's rocks face.

Discovery of the Titanic and its ghostly passengers on their voyage to eternity.

Marshland in front of the Lincoln Memorial in 1917. Work was underway to turn this site into the 2,000-foot long reflecting pool.

Washington Monument. 1860 and today.

Hindenburg Disaster. A view from the ground. On May 6, 1937, the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst in Manchester Township, New Jersey. 13 passengers, 22 crew man, and one worker on the ground were killed.

Kern Valley 15 million years ago. The area was shallow and rich with sea life. Once a feasting ground for the great Megalodons.

An old soul arriving to his final destination. Star of the Sea Cemetery, Marblehead, MA.

Boot Hill, San Quentin Prison. 696 condemned and unclaimed prisoners are buried.

Inmate Pivaroff (Inmate #276) playing guitar. Also known as "Dip" for being a pickpocket. Transferred from McNeil Island Penitentiary for being extremely assaultive and dangerous. Serving time for postal robbery and assault at Alcatraz Island. Original B&W photo courtesy of Chuck Stucker.

Industry Building, Alcatraz Island. Built between 1939 and 1941.

Robert Stroud's prison cell (Inmate #594). Stroud was incarcerated 54 years of his life. Of which 42 years were spent in solitary confinement. He was serving a life sentence for killing a guard in 1916 at McNeil Island, Puget Sound. Alcatraz Island between 1942-1959.

Dining Hall, Alcatraz Island. About 1937.

Tourist walk through the main cell block. Behind them are the ghostly image of the last inmates departing Alcatraz Island March 21, 1963.

Golden Gate Bridge construction 1935. Construction began January 5, 1933, and opened to the public in 1937 at a cost of over 15 million dollars. Leading up to the final weeks a fatality occurred on February 17, 1937, when a work platform broke loose under the north tower. 12 workers were thrown into a safety net which failed. Ten died in the fall or drowned and two survived.

Rockefeller Center, Manhattan, NY. construction 1932.

Market Street, San Francisco, 1906 Earthquake.

Train Depot, Tehachapi, Ca. In 2008 the depot burned down due to illegal fireworks; it was rebuilt in 2009 and now serves as the Tehachapi Depot Railroad Museum with historic railroad artifacts.

The aftermath of the Juanita Hotel on Green Street from the earthquake of 1952, Tehachapi, Ca. The buildings have since been torn down.

Present day train traversing along bent railroad track through Tehachapi, Ca. Earthquake 1952.

Civil war veterans at Camp Randall Memorial Arch, Madison, WI.

End of WWI parade down Main St. in front of present day Nolan Anderson Agency. Waunakee, WI. Original B&W photo courtesy of Waunakee Centennial 1871-1971.

Early First Presbyterian Church and present time, 110 W. Second St. Waunakee, WI. Original B&W photo courtesy of Waunakee Centennial 1871-1971.

Aerial photograph of Camp Randall stadium 1930 & today. Madison, WI.

Waunakee Pavement Dance, Main Street, 1913. Original B&W photo courtesy of Waunakee Centennial 1871-1971.

James Clarke's general store. 105 E. Main St. Waunakee, WI.

Train Depot - 100 East Main St. Waunakee, WI. Currently Chamber of Commerce. Original B&W photo courtesy of Waunakee Centennial 1871-1971.

100 W. Main St. Waunakee, WI.

James and Harriet Clarke in front of their family home. Located on Coopers Addition, Waunakee, WI. The house has since been torn down. Original B&W photo courtesy of the Schwenn family.