I have been sorting out some very old digital images and this one has always been my favourite. It is an image I made somewhere near the start of my digital image journey back in 2003. I used to think I was quite knowledgeable about digital images, and to a degree that was true. However, with the benefit of 23 years of extra knowledge I have come to see that I didn’t know as much as I thought.

Of course I couldn’t resist the challenge of making a 2024 version. and these are the two attempts.

I was able to throw all that accumulated knowledge as well as computer technology undreamt of back in 2003 at the image. Whether the resultant images are better is a matter of taste. What is not beyond doubt is that today we have so many more opportunities to make images than we did in 2003. Whether we take advantage of those opportunities is really down to us.