helimat wrote:
Fuji GA645i 'Limited' + Portra 400
This balustrade has been battered by oceanic storms since 1957. It is now being torn down and replaced with a modern stainless steel stanchion & cable design.... While the replacement is due, it certainly won't be the same without it.
That's one thing very interesting in photos we might take - it's a snapshot at a given time which we might find out later is unique after things changed. It occurred to a bunch of my photos over the years that a place or scenery taken in a photo changed over the course of years passing by and was never alike later (due to new construction and/or buildings torn down or renovated, etc). Rarely I was conscious about an upcoming change and to photograph it well like in your above mentioned case. I am still missing that I never took the opportunity in 2005 to take sticker photos on cars here in the US during the Iraq war for example. Unique at the time and totally disappeared soon after. I saw it as a big deal later but not at the time when it actually occurred.