A question for the philosophers out there – When is a photographic image created? I’m really not sure what the answer to this is. As I have mentioned I am currently working on a photographic project called Gartree Explored. This is a photo essay set in the Gartree (Harborough District Council) hundred. It will come as no surprise to anyone who knows me or who might have been following this blog for sometime but I have captured images based in the Harborough area before starting the project. Could or should I use them? Or should I remaster the images from the original DNG and then use them. These images will be brand new images as, in the case of the images here, 14 years has passed with a significant improvement in the image software. They are images made in 2023 just from DNGs that are 14 years old.

I have no answer to that question other than to ask does it matter? To which the answer of course is not one jot. These are constraints I am putting on myself and it will affect no one else.