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With the 70th anniversary of D-Day just down the road, remembrance, reminiscence and retrospectives are to be found on every corner. The Guardian has given its Eye Witness centre spread to a collection of montage photographs, melding the old and new both taken from the same spot. It's a technique that has become popular through a combination of photographic software technology and our willingness to view and share pictures, personal and public, on screen. The picture on the left of Omaha beach - otherwise known as Colleville-sur-Mer - is as it appears in print. The website, however, allows visitors to see the ancient and modern pictures individually, as shown on the right, fading from one to the other and creating an even better sense of time and space. It is poignant and chastening to think of so many young men risking their lives to give us the freedom to read about Katie Price. The modern photographs were taken by Peter Macdiarmid of Getty Images, who has also collected modern images of scenes recorded in First World War photographs and put the two together. For more of this sort of work, see also Blitz Ghosts by Nick J. Stone, which shows Norwich past and present.
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