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Salvage Catamaran VB-10,000 cutting up the MV Golden Ray - Tamara Keel

You may have heard that big, fat container ship has contrived to get itself sideways in the Suez Canal completely blocking the channel and causing a huge pileup of cargo vessels at both ends. View From The Porch and daily timewaster both have posts up about it. This picture is not that ship, this is another disaster that happened off the coast of Georgia a couple of years ago.

I cropped the above image from a high-res photo that Tam posted. In Tam's post the ships are just a red and yellow blob. If your camera has enough pixels it can compensate for not having a zoom lens. The downside is that a few images can really eat into your storage space. Of course storage space is cheap these days.

1 Terabyte USB memory stick from Amazon < $40

Unless you are renting space on the cloud. It's still cheap, but it incurs a monthly charge. $2 a month buys 100GB from Google. My cropped image uses one-tenth as much space as the original. The original is only about 1/4 of a megabyte, which is negligible on this scale. However, I scanned a batch of old 4 x 6 photos at 600 dpi and each one of those required about 50 megabytes. That amount of space on this thumb drive would be a fifth of a cent. On Google it would be a tenth of a cent a month. Take a thousand photos and you're talking about a cup of coffee.