Hello hivean friends,
Hope you are doing well and that you are all safe and feeling good.
I am very well, enjoying life...
Part of my life is also Hive, and I am enjoying this part as well. I am really happy to see that lately my posts are getting a lot of recognition and support. With this I get more exposure and motivation to keep sharing my work here on Hive and trying to raise quality of my posts.
The most important moment happened about two months ago, when I changed structure of my posts. Usually I was posting only one photo per post, now I am sharing 5-10 on regular posts and with travel stories it is usually around 20. Travel stories are most succesful part of my blogging and that is expected, as I also dedicate most time to them. I am trying to share one episode per week. There was a lot happening in the summer when I visited a lot of places and I tried to present them in the best way in my Tour de Slovenia series. This is also the product I am most proud on. Photos and theme might not be as nice as some other World class tourust sites, but still a lot of recognition of the series and very positive response from fellow hivers.
Another key moment was when I begin to curate. I didn't know much avout curation and how it works, but now I am trying to curate manually with TipU and Curangel project as best as possible.
My Hive power was (is) low and vote didn't reach 0.01$. I was proud when it increase to 0.02$. Than it was 0.04$ for some time when also the price was good. And today I came to 0.08$ with full vote. I can start giving 50% votes and it will still be something. I can support more authors, more quality posts this way. I am really happy for that. Curation is a great thing and I enjoy reading all these amazing posts which are created on our platform. There were some changes proposed by @blocktrades yesterday but lets leave this for now. System is not perfect, but my opinion is that it has to remain 50%/50% reward split. Sure I would love to see autovotes gone! But how to reach that is a million dollars question.
Back to how I reached vote value of 0.08$ which means HP of around 6500. I did my first real power up today with almost 2500 HP. I still didn't invest that from my money, but changed some BTC and ETH from Steemit days. I am proud on that number, but even prouder on how I get to the rest 4000 HP. With authoring and curating here on Hive. I started with around 500 HP from airdrop in between I powered up about the same number of HP from Steem power. Other I get with 100% power up with my work. Especially in last month I achieved some great numbers. I would like to say special thank you to all of you. All who are voting daily, or you are curation on behalf of big curation groups (especially OCD incubation program), or big whales searching great content (@darthknight, thank you so much!), or you maybe just visited my blog and left a comment.
Usually I am sharing photography and travel related content and let the photography below be your reward and way of saying thank you.
I took so many photoa through the years that it is really hard to choose the best one. All speaks for themselves and have different stories behind.
Three photos I choose today definitely belongs among the top photos from my side.
Hope you will like them as much as I do.
Enjoy your life and enjoy your time here on Hive. Lets grow together...
Mt. Bromo, Indonesia
Flamingo reflection, San Pedro de Atacama
Glaumbaer Turf Farm, Iceland
The nicest of them all :)
@tipu curate 4
Upvoted 👌 (Mana: 0/60)
I had no idea curate 4 was a thing!
Haha, my biggest was curate 8 :)
No matter what level you are at, you can always put all your daily TipU votes in one giant vote ;)
Congrats on all these achievements my friend, you have been growing so fast lately :) Keep up the momentum!
Hey man it wouldn't happen without you, you know that.
You are my biggest inspiration here, I said that one time I want to be like you. 30k is a real thing and your fanbase as well :)
Thank you for support once again and I will do my best not to let you down with my growth :)
Always a pleasure to support your content and engage with you here on Hive ;) Well, you have been definitely growing faster than me lately so I am sure you will match up my achievements soon. And I will be happy about it ;)
That might be a thing at current moment, but you are still big fish in comparison with me...
I doubt I will ever catch if you will not quit, which I hope you won't.
Like I said, lets grow together :)
Nice mate. Beautiful photos and glad your persistence is paying off on the platform.
Hey Rob you were actually the first guy who put an autovote on me and showed constant support. I am really grateful for that.
Keep sharing your amazing photos and I will do the same :)
Nice to hear that ;-) Always try and support photographers on this platform.
Awesome shots homie. Congrats on the account growth too.
Thak you Wes!
You contributed a lot to my recent growth and my motivation to rais posting quality.
Photograohy Lovers community is my favourite beside Haveyoubeenhere and I will do my best to keep sharing some of my photos here...
Have a great weekend!
You definitely picked 3 breathtaking shots. The first one is my favourite, it shows the distinctive beauty of Indonesia.
Yea man these three photos are really ceiling of my skills combined with beauty of nature.
I choose Mt. Bromo as a cover one, so I like it the most, but it was close with flamingo.
The flamingo reflection, wow! Amazing and unbelievable shot!
Congratulations on your achievements! And thank you for dropping by on my posta to curate. I appreciate the support 💖
With wildlife you never know how good photography will be, but I am really proud on this flamingo.
I am glad you like it as well!
You are creating amazing content here on Hive so I am happy to curate it. Keep it up and I am sure I will stop by again soon :)
Hi @crazy-andy, love all 3 amazing photos especially flamingo refletion. Great shots!👍🏻😊
Everyone has its own eye for photography.
But here I agree that flamingo might be the best or better say most quality photo of all three.
With first one there is landscape itself already very beautiful.
With third one it is personal opinion present as well. I somehow really like this green landscale combined with blue, partly cloudy sky.
Well thanks for stopping by!
Yes, agreed. Looking forwards your coming great posts. Have a nice weekend, enjoy your day!😊
Spectacular photos as always i love the Flamingo reflection that's awesome 👍
Looks like flamingo would win if there would be a voting :)
Most definitely you got my vote 👍
And i got to agree with you these are 3 beauties 👍
See how nice it is to agree :)
Haha...you didn't have to twist my arm on that one 😅
Beautiful shots! 👍
Means a lot coming from photographer like you are...
You value me too much :)
Beautiful Gain of hive Power. I also love the picture from Mt. Bromo, Indonesia, this is so amazing.
Hey you are also powering up a lot, so I have to try and keep it up with you :)
Well it is one of my best shots, so you better like it. Haha :)