Readers’ Showcase: Steve Badger

But he’s not on the “market” with his photos. He’s doing photography for his own pleasure and, I presume, to hang on his walls . If you take up, say, carpentry as a hobby and make your own table, it’ll give you immeasurable pleasure to have it at home, and to eat on it with family and friends. This will be the case even if there are thousands of nearly identical tables you could have bought for a very affordable price (which would be much less than the value of the time you put in to make your own table, not to mention the cost of the tools). So, he’s spent thousands on equipment, thousands on traveling, thousands of hours learning the technique and taking the photos and processing them, all for a result very similar to you can order for 20 bucks online. Maybe this will clue you in that “market value” is completely beyond the point here — and this is true for the vast majority of the users of dpreview…