I've only been on Steemit a short while so I'm just getting the hang of it.. if like me, you're feeling like you're putting loads of effort in but progressing slowly, keep going, it will take time ! I have made 265 posts. That's a whopping amount of posts in the time I've been here. I've made 100's of upvotes, comments and engaged in multiple replies. I've managed to gather 100+ followers so far and would like to make friends with as many like minded people as possible.

water fountain at 1/1000th second freeze frame (OUTERGROUND)

Every single one of those posts (and most of the comments & replies) contain something from my own personal work or custom written for the platform. The work in itself takes hours, days, weeks, sometimes months or even years. Some of my posts with multiple images can take up to 1 hour to collate. I am used to spending lots of time making things & preparing things and hoping people will understand what it means.. It's not what I do, It's who I am.

I've posted:

Films I've made

Photography in lots of different categories

Art I made

Poems I wrote

Discourse on Sc-fi and other subjects

Music I wrote

Clothes & Homeware I've designed (I might have encouraged a couple of sales here)

I even posted my Sales Persons Handbook (ZERO VOTES)

I've got lots of content to share as I create every day. I'm a Creative DIrector by day and I'm also a blockchain enthusiast.. I research a lot of projects and am quite knowledgeable about upcoming BC projects // ICO's, price charts

Steemitphotochallenge Winner !

I did win steemitphotochallenge #40 in my first week on the platform ( Street Photography) & that's quite amazing. I've also had some of my photography featured on DPS, which I'm pleased about.

Sophie's Story

My animated film (link to my vimeo) got a lot of steem. I suppose it's really all about how many followers you have and how visible your posts are. I find that not many people re-steem, like they share posts on facebook.. Is that about keeping the blog exclusively personal to the member ? or do my posts smell funny ;)

Connections

I've had some great conversations, have posted, commented upvoted and even given out advice.. I even gave 5 SBD to my 100th followers cos' I was feeling lucky and 2.5SBD to the person who showed me how to find out who my 100th follower was.
I like the fact that people here are actually helpful. I can't help feel that everyone's motivated in the same way UBER drivers are.. A high customer rating = reputations /success.

Keep Truckin'

I will endeavour to post high quality content and hope to build an audience here. I also like the idea of collaborating with like minded people. I have been sharing my content for totally free for many years on one platform or another. I have about 1000 tumblr followrs / 750 Instagram and 300 facebook friends (I know each facebook friend personally)

I always follow back cos' I'm nice like that .... Everytime I use an S instead of a Z spellcheck red underlines me that my English is wrong.. or when I add a U after an O, but I'm used to that !! US English indeed.