Value

Value is relative. Today's blog may be of relatively little value. I present it, if no other reason, to entertain myself.

As a photographer I like to include images with my blog posts. Sometimes the verbage is created as an excuse to show off an image. But no image is included in today's blog to help demonstrate the value that images can add. My other blog is centered on Star boat racing. I'd like the reader to take a brief overview of my latest Star blog entry and then please return to this monolog.

The image of my pal Andy sailing the Star doesn't fit the text of the blog. Andy didn't steer during the races. The image was taken while sailing towards the racing area. It could have been of a stranger sailing on the other side of the country. But it creates value to the article by, from the top, anchoring the readers mind on a racing sailboat.

My photo geek personality finds incredible irony in the gear that we used to make images that evening. A free Sony Mavica FD75 that writes 640x480 pixel (.3 MB) images to a floppy disk! I'm not exaggerating when I report that its image quality is the poorest of any digital camera I have ever used. But those incredibly poor images and the camera that helped create them are adding value to the front page of my sailing blog. That service has kept the Mavica FD75 out of the landfill. At least until a better 'valueless' camera comes along.