She had it all planned out. When she graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, with a degree in photography and graphic design, Amy Holmes George had a plan that allowed her to pursue a career of creativity and financial security. It didn’t last. “I tried, but my passion for the fine arts overwhelmed me,” she says. “I was really aching for the darkroom, and I wanted to make work that was more passionately driven then client-dictated.” So, she got her master’s in fine arts and photography and took a job as a photography instructor at Stephen F. Austin University in Dallas. In 2008, she was awarded the Fulbright Scholar Research Grant. The result is her current exhibit, “Double Vision: A View of Florence Past and Present,” where Holmes George replicates photographs of significant landmarks in Florence, Italy, taken by the Alinari brothers in the 1800s. By accompanying her images with the classic photographs, she wants to show the benefits of travel, expand appreciation for both old and new photo methods and, most of all, show the impact of mankind’s endeavors on history. “For me, it’s a really powerful statement of the impact of tourism and commercialism and industrialization in the landscape,” she says. “You can see that there’s this need to return to an original state.” Amy Holmes George’s exhibit will be on display at the Potter Hall Gallery at Missouri Western from Sept. 8 through Oct. 9.