I just minted an NFT (non-fungible token) on the WAX blockchain in my new collection called “natureart”. My hikes in the natural surroundings on the coast of Africa at the southernmost region allow me to be absorbed in a most beautiful environment which really looks to me like an art gallery. As a result I am able to take some inspiring photos, one of which I have turned into today’s NFT.
The natureart collection is where I will be featuring my most impressive photos of pure nature displaying some form of artistic creation, as seen by myself of course. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and may be totally subjective. Still, I have found some awesome abstract and geometrically pleasing impressionist art within the natural surroundings on my cliff hikes on the coast of the southernmost part of the African continent.
The region just near my home is a favorite hangout of mine where I spend hours every other day on hikes exploring the surroundings. I either keep to the cliff tops or I climb right down to the sea shore itself, where I have the entire rugged space to myself, except perhaps for the odd fisherman.
The raw and rugged natural surroundings are mostly weathered rock, some of it smoothed by years of erosion by the sea waves, and some of it painted with natural lichens and moss. The latter is what has made up today’s art composition and subsequent NFT.
To create the NFT I went through a few simple steps like spending a bit of WAX token to get enough CPU and RAM to make the transaction of minting 4 copies of this NFT, and I priced them as a mere 0.5 WAX each. This should cover my cost to mint them. It’s about $0,10 today, so for ten cents you can have one of four copies of my minted NFT called “Quaternity rock art” linked here https://wax.atomichub.io/market/sale/12100221.
So as you can see I don’t plan to make money from this minting, it is more of an exercise and a fun pastime to make NFTs out of my favorite nature photos. If I sell all of them I will earn myself 2 WAX. What a bonus.
I simply appreciate the abstract mural image created by the rock and the lichen which have colored it like an abstract work from the Cubists or something from the past two centuries over 100 years ago. The image is spontaneous and of only three basic shades – black, white and ochre. Nature is the artist and I have simply captured the image and delivered it to NFT status.
I’m running out of WAX so need some of my collection of accumulated WAX NFTs to sell. I have no idea if that will happen, I have only ever resold one before, that I was given as a gift. It provided me with the WAX to mint this NFT of my own today. My own NFTs don’t have any buyers yet, and this is the fifth, although the first in this particular collection based on nature art.
Ah well, we can always dream and imagine ourselves to be an artist or in today’s case a messenger of nature, the original artist. In time to come I will add more of my findings out there in my playground of nature. They will become NFTs in the collection on the WAX blockchain, among all the game collectibles. Perhaps it’s not the ideal place for random nature art photos.
It’s just an easy platform to mint my images. I tried opening an account on a new platform on the TEZOS blockchain called Kalamint, but I struggled with the signup. I did it about 4 times and kept getting verification emails which I clicked, only to be told my email was verified but then also not verified. I was bewildered. So that put me off. Add to that the requirement of a TEZOS wallet.
The WAX wallet and AtomicHub platform worked more easily for me, so I use it now, despite having to repeat each process more than once as it simply fails or keeps asking for more RAM and CPU for each transaction. I’m close to out of WAX, which is still under a dollar, so is not too pricey when it comes to minting more NFTs. It was just a bit clunky having to re-do each step sometimes 4 times to get it right. That could be due to my wifi though, so I won’t blame WAX blockchain.
Being unverified or whitelisted on the AtomicHub NFT platform may be another obstacle but then maybe not. I don’t know. And I’m not minting big card collections for collectors either, just some occasional nature photos, so I may well be out of my league. Anyway, I love the concept of making art out of random things and today it’s nature imagery. I’m surrounded by the beauty of nature, so I want to share it with others who may be less fortunate. Any tips on minting on WAX are welcome, otherwise check out my NFT linked above and let me know what you think.
(image my own)