Wow what a great post @bypaul! I am sorry to see that you gained so little traction here, this is really a terrific post and the exact kind of thing I want to see more of on Steemit. It is one thing to post a bunch of pictures and another thing entirely to give the context and relate stories about your experience while taking the pictures - you have added so much value to what was already pretty extraordinary photography! Yes please, this level of detail or even more.
Next time you make a post like this please drop me a link the same day you make the post in the comments of my FREE upvote | follow | resteem service (there is no expiration date to my service) and I will make sure to promote it with some bigger Steemit guns than myself. This is the kind of post that @curie curators are scouring Steemit looking for, and if you had been noticed by the right person this could and should have been a $100+ payout post. I am not kidding you nor blowing hot air up your butt - this is an absolutely terrific post.
My favorite image is the turtle followed closely by the elephant topiary, but really all the photography is fantastic. My favorite story you related was getting woken up by a lick from a stray dog in the park - cute dog as well! I can relate a little to the air-conditioned 7-11s and the shock of walking outside - I grew up in Alaska and went straight from high school there to college in New Orleans (Tulane University), and while it doesn't get that hot in New Orleans, the heat and humidity in comparison to my stomping grounds in Alaska was mind blowing. Every business had ACs cranked up to freezing and it was always such a shock to the system stepping back outside into the swampy air.
Happy to follow and upvote and upvote through MSP as well - well deserved! I would resteem but you are so close to your payout date that it would be a bit of a waste of my resteem, but as noted if you drop me a link to a future post as detailed and awesome as this I will promote the crap out of it!
Much love - Carl
Wow! Thank you so, so much for your reply!
I feel honored that my post inspired you to such a text wall :)
The next post is already finished, I will publish it tomorrow morning and of course drop you a link. Do you have any further advice on what to do to get noticed by @curie you mentioned or some “right persons“?
I do not want to spam my post link in steemit that seems wrong to me, but a little self advertising is okay I think. So if you have some recommendations on who I could contact or what else I could do to get noticed that would be great.
I am mainly asking you this not to gain money, but to have a bigger audience. I really like sharing my stories and pictures and comments like yours are worth more than a hundred bucks to me!
Even more love - Paul
No you are right in your instinct not to spam Steemit with your post link. Honestly it is a bit of a crapshoot if your post will get noticed or not when you are just starting out and don't have many followers.
I am excited you have a new post ready and will keep an eye out for it, but please do drop me the link as soon as you publish. If the new post is as detailed, well written and generally awesome as the last one I am pretty confident I can pass it on to some curator friends of mine and get it some good exposure. I just wish I had seen this first post before the payout period was up, this has to be one of the more undervalued posts I have ever seen on Steemit. Anyway looking forward to reading more and seeing more awesome travel photography!