Talented Street Photographer and Photo-journalist @jsantana Shares His Steemit Story

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He is someone who have been bringing smiles to everyone faces with the amazing pictures he shares on his blog, @jsantana is one of the people on this platform I first came in contact with

The number one problem my photographer friends give me about steemit is the need to write content, so while they are all waiting for the release of Steepshot, others like @jsantana are crusing it here on steemit

Here is his Steemit Story

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My name is Jammerson Santana, I am Brazilian, I live in the city of Recife, a metropole that is in the northeastern region of Brazil. For 4 years I have been working professionally as a photographer. Photo journalist and street photographer in the vacant hours between one staff or another.

For more than 10 years I have developed jobs in commercial sectors of several Brazilian companies or industries as sales consultant, commercial supervisor and commercial representative.

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I discovered Steemit by chance and through the publications of two people I follow on facebook. One is @jeffberwick, a person who followed his work a few years ago through his vlog on YouTube called Anarchast. And I noticed a publication of him talking about how he met Steemit and that in his first post he reached the surprising number of $15,000 in rewards with his introductory post. My reaction was "Wowwwww!"

The second person was Suzane Tarkowski Tempelhof, the creator of the Bitnation project (@bitnation). As I am part of this community a few years ago (I am citizen Bitnation :)) I follow her on Facebook and saw a post from her asking her followers how their experience has been using steemit.com. The comments I read were the best possible which increased my curiosity to know which platform is that is changing people's lives.

This all opened my eyes to the possibility that I might have a platform where I could post what I like and think and be rewarded for it. Something fantastic and sensational.

After the curiosity and the reports I decided to join the platform. I made my sign up and determined that my nick would be @jsantana. I had other nicks in mind, but I believe that this would be easy to identify and a way of reforming originality that is something that has been with me since I joined here. I decided (after some fear ... fear? LOL) to do a "post test", in fact it was a very "short facebook post style" where I talked a little about how was the opening of the 2016 Olympics in Brazil (In Rio de Janeiro). Yes, this was a "shit post" ...

My start (first month) was not very complicated. Maybe because the platform was just being launched and not having so many users, we were more noticed by the whales and it was very common in my posts I always take the votes of @berniesanders and @dan (yes, Dan Larimer, one of the developers of the platform) as well as @ned (Ned Scott, yes he, the "God Steemit") and I was always very grateful and honored for this recognition in my beginning here at Steemit.

As time went on, more users came and several changes in the protocol (Hard Forks) came and this distancing of the "whales votes" was something common for me. I felt abandoned in the months that followed, I even thought about giving up the platform, but when I looked at Steemit beyond the financial issue and started to integrate with the community, talk to other users, all this was motivating me to stay and to continue.

Today after a year on the platform, with my maturation, experience and reputation built with "a lot of sweat" (literally), I was able to find Portuguese speakers, both here in Brazil, as in Portugal and in other countries of the "Language of Camoes" And I managed to develop a project here in Steemit aimed at the Portuguese-speaking community called "Project Camões", in honor of the great poet and greatest name of Portuguese-language literature, Luis Vaz de Camões. The project aims to disseminate and support Portuguese language authors and posts written in Portuguese. You can follow the profile @camoes, there I post all the updates on the project.

Many people have been and are special to me during this 1 year here on the platform. My first friend was @aksinya, a great friend, from the beginning she accompanies me and I have a very special affection for her.

My great friends @rigaronib and @ the-ego-is-you, wonderful people who are friends who want to have the opportunity to meet them outside of Blockchain's environment. @gringalicious another person who from the beginning we accompany ourselves, I have a great affection, respect and admire all the work she does here. These were the people that I consider "key pieces" of my motivation and good coexistence here.

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My advice to beginners is to stop going to the posts of older users to ask for votes. "Upvote by Upvote" does not work here. You will have to sweat a lot to have your success and recognition on the platform. Financial success here is real, but nothing comes for free and nothing "falls from the sky." Build relationships, talk to other users, make comments based on what you read in the posts without waiting for something in return. Be patient and stay motivated every day to post something different and attractive in your blog. Good luck to everyone!

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Thank you all for reading, and great thanks to @jsantana for sharing his story

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