The photo above shows a picturer of a bridge over Big Cottonwood Creek in Cottonwood Heights Utah which I will discuss below. But lets first talk about NFTs.
A growing number of HIVE Tribes have incorporated the NFT code. So, I decided to experiment with different sites.
Yesterday I tokenized an NFT on hiveme.me. I tokenized 5 editions of a little piece titled "The Creation of A.I." This piece was created by DALL-E by prompting for a meme based on Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam."
This was my experience:
It cost 1000 MEME to "whitelist" my account. It cost 1000 MEME to create a meme with five editions. The total cost was 0.49 HIVE or about twenty cents.
If you visited the page for the meme; you would find that, while I created five editions, the editions did not show up in my account!
HE says that it created the tokens. It did not put them in my account. Nor could I find a link that allowed me to edit them.
This really wasn't a problem. My goal was to create an NFT. I gave no thought to selling them. I probably would have listed the NFTs at cost.
Tokenizing Photos
I've noticed that other tribes, including hive.photo are running the same NFT code. I thought it might be interesting to tokenize photos.
It looks like it would costs 1000 PHOTO to whitelist my account. Since the sites run cookie cutter code, I suspect that it would cost 600 PHOTO to create the first edition and 100 PHOTO for each additional edition.
To create an NFT from a photo, I should expect to spend 2000 PHOTO.
2000 PHOTO would cost about six SWAP.HIVE.
MEME has been trading at bargain basement prices. To tokenize an NFT on hive.photo would cost some serious money.
It takes me about a month to earn 6 SWAP.HIVE on #hive-engine.
Would It Be Worth It?
I really don't know if there is any value in tokenizing photos. I see that few people have tokenized photos on HIVE photo.
At the time of writing this post, HIVE Photo listed only one NFT. This NFT was created by 
So, it looks like 
A person can't tokenize a photo on HE and have it too.
Code Is King
The mantra on HIVE is that "code is king."
One of the ramifications of "code is king" is that if you pay for something and don't get it ... then your money is gone.
Fantasizing About Tokenizing Photos
Anyway, the process of creating a MEME token got me to thinking about tokenizing photos.
I searched the question "How many photos are on the internet?"
The answer is that people take millions of photos a day and that online photos number in the trillions.
In a world saturated with photos; how could one create a photo that would hold value?
I Took a Photo of Spring Run Off
I looked at my surroundings and asked: What is the best photo that I could find in my surroundings on May 9, 2023?
Well, Utah had a wonderful Winter with record snow fall.
This means that there is a heavy run off!
So, I arranged my errands so that I would swing by Old Mill Park on Big Cottonwood Creek in Cottonwood Heights, Utah. The park has a wooden bridge and a rentention pond.
I took a walk around the rentention pond and snapped a picture of the creek and took several photos of an excavator at the park. My guess is that the county is using the equipment to pull debris out of the retention pond.
This is some digging equipment. The canyon is either Heughs Canyon or Dry Hollow on the south side of Mt Olympus.
The excavator has a substantial crane.
Conclusion
I thought about trying to create an NFT on hive.photo. The price was a bit too steep and I could not think of a good subject for an NFT. I might try another MEME NFT tomorrow.
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