This photo is one of my favorites of all the landscapes I've taken. I'd been heading for the Pacific Ocean and the coast in Washington when I stopped for the night at a campground on Kachess Lake just a little bit outside of Seattle. The next morning I went out exploring for a bit before I hit the road again, this first shot is from that exploration.
I call the shot Smoky Mountains because all the white in the photo is wildfire smoke. This was taken on Labor Day in September of 2017 and it seemed like all of the western United States was on fire (some things never change), there was even a wildfire burning in another section of the national forest that Kachess Lake is located in.
After setting up camp I headed to the lake's edge to see if I could get some nice sunset shots and play around with long exposures a bit too. The photo above is one of the long exposure shots, there ended up not being much color to go with the sunset. While waiting to see if golden hour would be a wash or not I managed to get a few shots of moonrise as well, the photo below is one of those.
I've talked about this before but judging by the feedback I've gotten, it's still not a well understood topic so I'm going to take another swing at explaining. I decided earlier this year that I wanted to tokenize part of my portfolio and the disruptions caused by covid has just encouraged me further in that regard.
After hearing about @lensy's platform for creating photography NFTs on the hive blockchain (here) I had to poke around and see what was up. I'll get into that more here in a minute, but first I should probably attempt to shine some light on NFTs.
NFT stands for nonfungible token, for all intents and purposes fungible means mutually interchangeable, accordingly NFTs are not able to be swapped on a like for like basis. Whereas one bitcoin is the same as any other bitcoin and valued equally the opposite is true with NFTs, their unique nature is part of the their selling point, and what is being tokenized does more to determine their value.
Some of the best IRL equivalent examples that I can think of are limited edition series of artwork or photographic prints, collectible trading card games like Magic:The Gathering, Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, or sports collectibles like baseball or basketball cards and memorabilia.
To steal from Lensy's FAQ:
Anytime you have a token and you're keeping track of more details than who owns them and how many, then you have a non-fungible token. In this case we're keeping track of the art, who owns it, when it was created, a description etc. All of that data lives in the token, which is what you're purchasing when you buy the art.
Essentially it is the ultimate in authentic art, it's hard to create forgeries when all the information for all of them that exist is stored right here on the hive blockchain.
Since the coming of covid, art shows and craft fairs where I might otherwise sell prints have seemed like bad ideas. Like everything else these have had to transition to virtual, with NFTs being the best way of doing so that I have encountered. With NFTs I can reach people that would never have met me in person at a show.
The lead photo of this post is the latest photo of mine that I have tokenized (you can view the gallery of what I've tokenized so far here). Lensy builds off of hive engine, if you have swap.hive in your wallet on there you can use that to purchase NFTs on Lensy or NFTShowroom (the nonphotographic art NFT platform). These tokens come with different rights regarding their use, the one I created today is Private which is simply personal use only, the same as if you had bought a canvas print. There is also Full Commercial, one of the others in my gallery is this type, which means you can use it as if you'd sourced it from a stock agency.
I'm selling the ones I made today for 100 HIVE, which may seem like a lot but is less than half of what it would cost you to get an 8x10 print of it from me. NFTs can be resold as well, so when I'm rich and famous you can cash in on it a bit too :D
If you're more interested in creating NFTs then you will have to get whitelisted but the process isn't much if you can readily show proof of your work. If you have questions, concerns, snide remarks or the like just drop me a comment below!
That's enough out of me, especially about NFTs.
Never fry bacon without a shirt on. Just don't do it, there's no way that it doesn't end badly. Bare skin and frying fats never go together well but bacon takes the antagonism to a whole other level.
I blame coffee for bad decisions such as that, too much caffeine and I want to skip steps to get things done quicker...we all know how well that turns out. Did y'all know that the lighter the roast of the beans, the more caffeine coffee has? I used to think the stronger the taste and the darker the coffee, the more kick it had but apparently the heat of roasting destroys some of the caffeine. So what type of coffee roast do y'all prefer, a dark French or something a little on the blonde side?
Awesome, thank you!
You're very welcome! :)
I just learned that lighter the coffee, stronger the caffeine thing about a year ago. We took a coffee and chocolate tour, good stuff. Everything from growing banana trees to attract mosquitos cuz believe or not, them things are actually good for something--pollinate cocoa, to the 1% of the worlds coffee being grown in Costa Rica--their highest priced export.
I'm on your trail close enough to get the hang of these NFT thingamajig's at some point if you keep pushin'em. All three of the photos you got in this one are frikkin nice man.
We saw a sloth on that tour. It was far away and way up high in a tree but still saw one, only one I've seen in the wild like that. it's on the GoPro somewhere too
So there actually is a use for them damn things? I never really liked the dark roasts anyway so once I found that out I avoided them if possible.
I will keep jabbering about them, I love the potential of them. I figure if I talk about it enough people will learn by osmosis, it'll just slowly sink in :) Thanks!
I'm jealous, I've never seen a sloth outside of a zoo. Man, watching your video made me want one of those gopro things even more, that would have been the shit to have at the protests.
I just checked, you can get 2 or 3 models newer than mine for $200 at Amazon. And all these accessories for 30 bucks.
For what you're doing--it's a need thing.
I know what I'm asking Santa Claus for! Well, in addition to body armor and a gas mask...
I think filming the effects minus the armor and mask will be more exciting anyway.
Check out this crazy win streak I'm in right now:
'Exciting' you say. . . pretty sure there's enough excitement going on during those times that I don't exactly need more.
That's a hell of a streak! How long did that take you to amass?
Couple days probably. I never shoulda said shit! I've lost two out of three since I sent that braggin-ass screen shot.
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