Then and Now photograph, Sir Henry Royce Statue in Derby 1977 to 2009. HD Widescreen
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Uploaded by comedyhunter on Jan 7, 2009
Please click on the "720p HD" link then the fullscreen icon.
This is one of my "Then and Now" photographs created as a video using the new HD option now available on YouTube. This allows widescreen high quality playback but please click on the "720p HD" link below the video then click the Fullscreen icon otherwise you won't see the quality.
It should have a horizontal screen resolution of at least 1280 pixels otherwise you are not seeing all the image pixels.
This then and now is a bit different to my normal ones as I have kept the view of an object and moved to the new location of the object.
This is an experiment to see if this method of object based then and now photgraphy works, I'm not sure. what do you think?
The statue of Sir Henry Royce was originally erected in Derbys Arboretum park in June 1923, it was moved to Derby River Gardens in 1972 and moved yet again in September 1990 to the Rolls Royce Moor Lane site.
The Bronze "Grade II Listed" statue was completed in 1921, created by the sculptor Francis Derwent Wood (1871-1926).
There is a memorial window to Henry Royce in Westminster Abbey (unveiled 1962) Royce is the only engineer to have such a thing in his memory.
In my presentation here you can see the statue at Derby River Gardens in 1977 then outside the Rolls Royce factory, Victory Road in 2009. I then fade back and forth between these two locations.
It was not possible to take a my 2009 photograph from the exact same angle due to the fact that the statue is now located on a large raised area of ground. The only way I could have managed it would have been to use a very tall step ladder on the pavement!
Exact Map Location for 1977 photograph:
http://www.multimap.com/s/Nj9RlDAH
Exact Map Location for 2009 photograph:
http://www.multimap.com/s/gDlsSnm0
Birds eye view of 2009 location, You can see the statue on the raised ground :
http://tinyurl.com/9ty59r
I took the 2009 photograph on 4th January 2009 at 15:19
The 1977 photograph is from an old postcard I bought, rather strangely that image had graffiti on the walls but of course there was no such thing as photoshop in them days! So what you photographed was imortalised for ever even if it was for a postcard!
The lamp post on the left of the 77 shot is tipped over too, I left that as it was.
If you liked this "then and now" then you may like my then and now section on my website where I have created page after page of them for you to enjoy..
http://www.derbyphotos.co.uk/thenandnow
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Nice video Andy. Keeping up the good standard as usual. Nick Hodder
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It's nice to know that it wasn't as I thought.
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Congratulations, Andy. this is the first time I've seen HD as an option on YouTube. It even looks good in full screen. The only problem I'm having is that the sound is a bit jumpy. But I'm sure that will soon improve.
wwwcalmcom 3 years ago
Thanks. Videos have the HD option if they were uploaded with a vertical resolution of at least 720 pixels
If your sound is jumpy (assuming you have allowed it to buffer in all the video fully) then its probably that your pc is not fast enough
The way to find out is to start the video playing then press Ctrl/Alt/Del at the same time so that the Task Manager shows up.
Click on Performance tab at the top and look at the CPU Usage percentage number.
On my PC it shows about 2% while its playing
comedyhunter 3 years ago
Certainly not a change for the better if you ask me.
Peace.
NYCity99 3 years ago
In this case probably a good thing it was moved as it was suffering from vandalism at the river gardens site so it was decided to move it outside the Rolls-Royce HQ building.
comedyhunter 3 years ago
I thought the lake was filled in for the RR building.
NYCity99 3 years ago
I see, In this particular 'then and now' photo I have "followed the statue" to its new location rather than staying in the same location, the first time I have done this as an experiment.
comedyhunter 3 years ago