Now and then: Tiger-Cave

A little tryout for an upcoming project. Over the years I bought many negatives and old photos on ebay of the Tierpark Hagenbeck at Hamburg. So all original data used for this project are owned by me. The idea is simple: As an photographer I try to recreate old photos from back in the day as accurate as possible. I try to get the same angle, POV, and so on. My first (not perfect) tryout is this. The tiger-cave was located to the right of the famous lion-enclosure and also built in the same year and opened in 1907. It was connected to the lion-house via the door in the lower left hand corner of the picture. In the beginning there was many different carnivores here on display, from leopards to bears and wild dogs. When the Tierpark got the first breeding pair of amur tigers it was housed here. On this picture from 1930 you see the female tiger (on the floor) with two offspring (on the rock). For tigers this enclosure was used until in the early 50s the new exhibit was opened (that is today still in use, just extended). After that the cave kept mostly wolves. In the early 80s, when the rocks were renovated, the fence was removed and some of the rocks were broken down, so the cave had now (not in the picture) an open top to the left side. After many year being empty this exhibit is now extended to the front and keeps porcupines. If you like this project I will post more of these in the future. A big thanks to SIM who enabled the GIF for the gallery :)