Todd, excellent job on your animation. You are correct about the photo being too far away. I have one other photo but it was too close to the "bridge"(the white stone work at the first and second drop bottom gondola).
One other issue to correct for is the ground level, then and now. The Otto Perry photo was tilted a bit to the right and my photo tilted a bit to the left. I adjusted the Perry to match my photo. The Perry photo could have been level back in that day. The ground seemed to have dropped off to the right and seems few feet lower. The creek at the "bridge" has washed away a large area of land. Aligning both photos to the background horizon corrected this problem.
Great discussion! Thank You for all the positive feedback!