The oldest ones are nearly 15 years old: 1600-by-1200-pixel snaps taken from my first digital camera, a Canon PowerShot. I bought that camera in October 2001 because my wife and I were about to have our first child; we knew we were about to have a life experience that really needed to be documented.
Here’s how much photography has changed in the last 15 years: One of the selling points I had to make back then was the relative cost of having prints made from digital photos versus taking film to the supermarket and getting back prints. (I won the argument, because even in 2001 the economics were shifting away from film — it was cheaper to digitally print only the images that turned out well, rather than paying for an entire roll of film to be printed, regardless of quality.)
This was an amazing view into the memories and nostalgia in Jason’s Photos Library. It lead me to spend an hour scrolling through my 87,xxx photos stored in iCloud that basically start at 2001 and go through today. I capture more photos every year than previous years and while my cameras have gotten nicer, the old classics from high school are still great to view. I wish I had bought a digital camera earlier in life.
I should post a few at some point but it’d take a lot of work narrowing it down to 10 images.