I love photography and have taken some great shots (according to me) over the years while traveling. I really wanted to start using @steepshot app on my phone to start posting them to steemit, but I just can’t bring myself to do it. I didn’t want to turn off or annoy any of the few followers I have with a bunch of single picture posts in my feed. If it wasn’t so much work to build up steem power I would probably just start a new account just for using the steepshot app. (That’s probably against the rules anyway isn’t it?). What do you think about Steepshot and simple one picture posts on steemit?
A conversation on Discord in the HomesteadersOnline group with @farmstead confirmed my suspicions. But, I did get an idea from @BobbyDimitrov.
So, I’ll start here by posting some of my favorite pictures from Guatemala. If you currently follow me, then you’ll know I’ve posted a few pics from Guatemala already after living there for a while. Mostly all from Lake Atitlan (which I consider one of the best places on earth) in this post..
https://steemit.com/travel/@qberry/lake-atitlan-guatemala-one-of-the-best-places-on-earth
And also the post the other day about the time we got to work with a sea turtle preserve in Monterrico Guatemala.
https://steemit.com/travel/@qberry/releasing-sea-turtles
Scroll thru the photos below and let yourself be taken to beautiful Antigua, Guatemala
Santa Maria Church square with Agua Volcano in the background
Erupting volcano, taken from our front porch in Antigua
A view of Antigua from San Cristobal farm to table restaurant
Downtown Antigua, the ruin is Capachinas
View of Antigua from "The hill of the cross".
Inside La Merced in Antigua Guatemala
Downtown Antigua with Volcano Agua in the background
Graves cleaned and painted for day of the dead
Kite festival on the day of the dead. They are huge and yes they fly them
Mayan ruins
Mayan kids coming home from school
Volcanoes are everywhere in Guatemala
Handmade sandals
Chicken buses. Number one mode of transit in Guatemala
Dressed up for a parade
Graves all decorated for kite day/ day of the dead
A living room in one of the houses decorated for Christmas. Amazing
I had to sneak one photo from Lake Atitlan in. This is Santa Cruz La Laguna village
Let me know in the comments what you think about steepshot and the single picture posts on Steemit. I’d love to know everyone’s thoughts because I’m torn. Perhaps there should be a steemit filter people could use to hide all posts with only a picture or with only a few sentences? Then everyone could be happy.
Maybe if there is interest I will do a weekly Photo Trip series. I’d love to post some from Africa, Greece, Vietnam and Nicaragua as well.
Upvote and resteem only if you dig it!
I ran into one of those single-picture posts yesterday, just a title and photo with nothing else, and my first reaction was annoyance. I’ve come to expect more care and thought being put into articles or at least subtitles under pics to elaborate on them; so I was all “What is this? Instagram?!” Now I do like the way you explained each picture above, and enjoyed the way it felt like a trip around the country!
That's pretty much what my thoughts were and what I've heard from others. It's now what I'm on steemit for. I guess the problem I have is that I like instagram for sharing great photos but I'm bothered even there when people share a photo with no information. On one hand I wanted steepshot to be a way to make some money by sharing great photos easily with just a brief description, but on the other hand, I wish it wasn't on steemit. Thanks for your opinion.
I think the best way to use steepshot is to use it in conjunction with making posts like this one. In the case of this post, you posted a collection of photos and it made sense to do that. But if you had a one-off photo, it could be posted through steepshot...and I think as long as you provide at least a little bit of a description, its acceptable. A steemit blog that was solely steepshot posts with no descriptions is one I probably wouldn't follow, but if the steepshot posts are mixed in with other kinds of posts, I don't see a problem with it. Not every image post requires a lengthy description, so for those kinds of posts, steepshot works.
Thanks for the response. That makes perfect sense. I think I would have to use steepshot sparingly and only with my best photos.
So nice to see photos of this country again, they are great. I stayed in the hostel on the right of you last picture ;D
Thanks. We ate and drank there several times. Great food and people there.
lovely shots @qberry! looks like you've had some excellent travels. these are really good... @photocontests has some tags you could try to enter their contests :)
Thanks for the thumbs up on my shots and the info on @photocontests. I'll definitely check it out.
it's a beautiful city! someday I would like to visit it! Excellent job friend!
Thank you. It definitely worth a visit. Great people too.
Hey! Nice shots!
Thank you very much.