I am looking at historical documents of our brutalist university, as gathered recently by excellent students. A vanished body of water.

By chance, this is a demonstration of the power of focal length.

datastories.rub.de/bergbachl…

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You see the same place on a university campus, half a century apart. Large modernist buildings, three of them, and a few trees, stepts and a lake in front. 2022, which is the image on the right, the mini lake has been shut. No more people around, although this is the colourful of the two photos (the other one being black and white). Anyways, this is a demonstration of focal length because the scene looks completely different although shot from the very same spot. The old photograph was shot through a telephoto lens, thus pulling the background closer to the image, while the new shot was probably done through a smartphone camera, typically a wider lens thus pushing things away.