Twenty years ago, I roamed the four corners and like everyone else, I took pictures of Antelope Canyon. You know, the ones where yours are always 100 times uglier than everyone else's?
It just so happens that, at the time, I still had a film camera, which doesn't like X-ray scans at airport security checkpoints, which of course I didn't know, in my naivety at the time (and still a bit this day).
As a result, once developed, all my photos of a once-in-a-lifetime trip are all speckled, and therefore terrible.
Furthermore, the light (or lack of it) in Antelope Canyon already makes this kind of photo natively difficult (plus people everywhere, no photo tripod).
So even if the result is personal and therefore emotional, it's undeniably ugly.
And here, 20 years later, playing with Topaz's tools (no, I'm not sponsored), I've come up with a rather nice result, even if inventing pixels inevitably distances the final result from the original reality.
Yes, 20 years... Life begins when you realize you've only got one? Yes :)