Hello Steemit

Howdy Steemit,

I’ve never been into any type of social media. I’ve tried but pointless ‘likes’ and badges that literally mean nothing don’t really do anything for me. I also don’t like pointless generic comments on my photos. You know the ones I mean:

• Nice pic, congrats!
• Great color!
• Wonderful image!
• Inspiring!

You can’t even tell if the person looked at the pic or if they are just spamming that on everything they come across. I even tried writing a couple of reviews on TripAdvisor, but what’s the point? It’s a massive publicly-traded corporation and I’m not going to do their work for them for free. I might be a chump, but I’m not a huge chump (debatable).

Needless to say, when I heard there was a place that paid cryptocurrency for good content I was pretty excited. So I created an account and opened up Pages (Apple’s version of MS Word)……and had a blank page for approximately two weeks as I could think of absolutely nothing to say in my #introduceyourself post. I still can’t think of anything to say, but I finally found the motivation to force my fingers to move across the keyboard while they vomit out whatever comes to mind. As you can see, I’m very excited to be joining the community.

Anyways, my two biggest interests are travel and photography, so that will make me approximately the ten-millionth person to come on here writing about travel and posting travel pictures. I’m a professional photographer from Portland, Oregon and before moving back home about three years ago I spent six years living in Bogota, Colombia.

I’ve been to every continent except Antarctica and have traveled most extensively in Latin America. In addition to the six years of living in Colombia, I’ve also done a five-month trip through Central America, a ten-month trip through South America, and many smaller trips. I’ve been to every country on the mainland of the Americas except for Venezuela (wish I’d gone before things got bad), Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.

Currently I’m in Spain on a trip I started less than a week ago that will last four and a half months. I don’t have any concrete plans, but in addition to Spain I hope to visit Tunisia, Italy, Portugal, and maybe Israel. My posts will most likely be a combination of older stuff from my time in South America and some new stuff from my current trip.

Below are a few of my photos:

Me

California State Route 190 West passing through Death Valley National Park.

Friendly wildlife in the Amazon Rainforest in Peru.

Colorful landscape near Rio Lagartos in Mexico.

Plaza Mayor in Villa de Leyva, Colombia. I like to shoot infrared to mix things up from time to time. I'm not currently traveling with my infrared camera as it tends to just be dead weight in my bag.

Mamalluca observatory in Vicuña, Chile. Located in the Elqui Valley with over 300 clear days and nights a year it is an excellent spot for star gazing.

Nighttime shot of the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia.

Dreamcatcher at Medicine Wheel in Wyoming, USA.