FAQ

Sometimes even I don't know what I'm looking at, especially if I just took my contacts out and my glasses are giving me a woozy vertigo vibe!

But in THIS case, it's two moments in time, sitting next to each other in the same frame. The historic photo is what a place looked like a hundred years ago. The modern photo is what it looks like today. I find the exact spot the old photographer stood, shoot the modern photo from that same angle, and blend the two together in Photoshop. Paint over the historic layer to reveal what's there today.

No, none of it. The historic image is a real moment in time, captured a hundred years ago by someone who stood in that exact spot. The modern image is a real moment in time, captured by me this year. And the final artwork is hand-built in Photoshop, where I use my mouse to paint history in and out by hand. No AI, just a lot of resizing until the two images match. I did not drive my Yukon back to 1907 to take the modern photo…that I recall.

No! The artwork is two real photographs layered together. Part of the historic image shows through. Part of the modern photo shows through. Nothing is painted over the historic photo, and nothing is colorized. The two images just sit next to each other in the same frame and let you look at both. I have not invented a time machine. Yet.

Because the artwork isn't a colorized historic photo, it's a real modern photograph blended with the historic one. The cars, signs, and streetlights are part of today's scene. I went back to the exact spot where the historic photo was taken and shot the modern photo there. The car came with the territory.

I did not call my friend from a hundred years ago to come pick me up. They do not have a phone. Yet.

I license them, get permission from the archive or collector, or use images that are in the public domain. Every historic image in the app, on my website, and on social media is used legally. The credit is always there. I have not stolen any from the future. They are not invented yet.

Yes. I love custom commissions, especially when the place has meaning to you. Family homes, businesses, churches, mines, schools. If it matters to you, it matters to me. Every commission is a custom quote based on scope. Get in touch here to start the conversation.

Yes! I sell prints of my Time Travel artwork in a range of sizes at timetravelart.com. Living room, office, a gift for someone who loves that place. There's a print for that.

In college, on slide film. Every photo had to be projected for critique, and I imagined projecting those slides directly onto the old buildings in Butte. I never got around to it. I didn't own a projector and I didn't have the money to buy one.

Years later, in 2007, I moved back to Butte and volunteered at the World Museum of Mining Photo Archives. I realized I could do the same thing in Photoshop. My first piece took days, and the technology wasn't quite there yet. I did not have a flux capacitor. I still do not have a flux capacitor.

In 2017, the Butte Archives purchased the Smithers Collection and put out a call for artists. That is when I made the first piece I truly loved. I picked the work back up in 2021 and have been building the collection ever since.

No, but I have come close. There was a time loop in Butte last Tuesday that I am not at liberty to discuss. The pigeons were involved. Marty is fine.

The 80's. I have dressed up, fluffed my hair, and worn blue eye shadow a lot for Halloween in the past. I regret nothing.

No, I haven't. Please don't be the first.

I don't think so. But maybe?