Last week I posted to STEEM Atlas.

I liked the experience, there is always a nice tickle when I create something new and beautiful and I contribute to a project, that in my humble opinion, has future.

So, after considering the idea for a few days, I am today applying to be an Atlas Ambassador for my home country, Bulgaria.

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Brief history and Bio:

I joined Steemit on March 2018.

After a long period of inactivity, about eleven months ago I returned and started to post on Steemit again.

I was a hobbyist photographer and since 2014 I became a pro photographer.

I love to travel, my main focus is on beautiful old Europe, but I have been to some countries in Asia and Northern America too.

I have Master of Sciences degree in Engineering, I play guitar and I have professional experiences in the fields of IT, Management, Energy, some NGO related activities, and of course, Arts.

From time to time, I like to write as well. I guess I don't need to mention it, I am implicitly a crypto ambassador :)

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Languages:

• Bulgarian - mother's tongue

• English - I'd say fluent: reading, writing, speaking, I feel comfortable with all those activities. :)

• French - B2 European level. I studied it for two years, as I love French cinema and I don't want to read the movie subtitles while watching :) So I read and understand the most, write some basic stuff but I don't feel confident to speak. That's because no opportunities I suppose. Practice makes perfect as some say.

• Russian - I studied it in primary school, back in the days Bulgaria was a part of the socialist block of countries and we were all obligated to learn it :) I can read and understand but can't write or speak properly. As a child and teenager I've read more books in Russian than Bulgarian as I was a huge fan of SciFi books and there weren't enough published in Bulgarian to satisfy my thirst. :)))

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SteemAtlas posts:

• https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@lightcaptured/village-of-ribnovo-and-its-wedding-traditions-and-rituals-imprinted-by-lightcaptured

• https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@lightcaptured/photo-walk-in-drvengrad-imprinted-by-lightcaptured

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A suggestion for a new feature:

Let me first share a story with you.

Between 1998 and 2008 I worked for a UK IT company with headquarters in London. I was traveling back and forth to London a lot during that decade and I had something like a ritual on each arrival.
I would check-in to my hotel for the stay, and then make a stroll at the banks of River Thames and have a pint of Guinness. Alone or with my colleagues, it didn't matter, all it mattered was that happens on the same day of my arrival :)

As you can guess, the taste of those pints hasn't changed through time, but the price of those pints did.

So I think a new feature to the STEEM Atlas map, called something like "Beverage and Food Locator" would be quite interesting and useful so people could check real reviews of other travelers.

Posts under that feature shouldn't be very long - I imagine a shot or two of the beverage or the dish itself, accompanies by the locale name, a receipt with the price eventually, the datetime of the visit and a honest opinion about the product served and the service itself.

I also imagine there would be a switch/filter somewhere in the frontend to allow only such posts to be seen, "separated" from the "regular" posts. That would require a dedicated hashtag, I reckon.

By the way, I found a similar web site with beer prices but it has info almost only from UK and I believe STEEM could be the perfect blockchain for such a cool dApp with its international userbase. I hope @pennsif finds such a feature cool and useful as well :) Moreover, people would have a real incentive to add more pins instead of only shilling about their business or simply volunteering.

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Steem Atlas can benefit the STEEM platform:

• new travel writers could join STEEM attracted by the rewards and the expanding community
• existing bloggers will start to add more high-quality articles about the places they visit
• new investors could join the STEEM platform to promote their business and eventually stay if engaged in a positive way
• platform engagement will increase as a whole

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Here is my Discord handle: lightcaptured (originally known as lightcaptured#2698)

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Last but not least... let's have fun!

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Now let me share some of my photographs from Bulgaria, as I would love that application to have something to do with Photography as well :)

Long-exposure zoom-burst, The Parliament, Sofia

Sunrise at the old lighthouse of Ahtopol, Black Sea

Milky Way over the chapel of Plana village, Plana mountain

Medieval windmill near Nessebar, Black Sea

Long exposure in the blue hour before sunrise at the Arch of Tyulenovo village, Black Sea

At the sunken submerged church at Zhrebchevo dam, water reservoir

Park near the lighthouse of Shabla, Black Sea

The Devil's Bridge on River Arda, near the city of Ardino

Please note that this post is AI-free and created exclusively for the STEEM blockchain.

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All the photographs, digital art and text in my posts, unless specified otherwise, are my own property and created by me.

Have a great day!

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