The Daily Sneak 24 February - with guest curator @randomwanderings
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Today's guest curator is @randomwanderings.
Author Gene here. I am a Curie Curator and in my searching for exceptional content. I come across many great posts that might not fit the Curie guidelines. I hope to use Sneaky Ninja as an outlet for some of these posts that still deserve more attention then they might be getting on their own.
Photography Tip - ALWAYS Make Sure Your Settings Are Right! Lightning Fail! TUTORIAL
This author has a side job as a Storm Chaser in Indiana. In that line of work he gets many amazing photo opportunities. In this post he shares his experience on how to capture photos of lightning. He also uses a few of his awesome lightning photos as examples.
Are You a Frustrated Artist? I Got Tips for You!
This author is an extremely talented artist. In this post she shares ten tips for artists that might be frustrated. Along with these tips she also shares a lot of her own art. I just got her a Curie upvote last week, otherwise this post would have one.
How I Made This Painting (Speedpaint) - Pt 1
This digital artist is working on a comic called Tugboat. In this post they share a Speed Painting video showing part of the process of coloring their characters. I always love being able to see the process of an artist, and when it comes in video or speed painting form it makes it even better.
When my phone camera takes better photos than your DSLR(Part 2)
This author is a portrait photographer by trade, but a lot of the time when she travels she simply uses her iPhone to take photos. In this post she gives us some tip on how to take your photos to the next level. Her photos in the post include a unique take on the Taj Mahal as well as an awesome mountain scene.
Introducing steemitnewbieresteeminitiative.com We Now Have A Website To Call Our Own!
This post is announcing a great tool being used in an effort to help Newbie's to Steem have an easier go of it than many of us had. I am part of the Steemit Newbie Resteem Initiative. It is a group that helps new users with answers to questions they may have, resteeming their posts to help them get seen, and basically provide support to those having trouble finding their way in the community. This post is to introduce the new website which will serve as a central location for tons of information to help them find us, help them navigate within the Newbie Resteem Initiative, and find many useful resources.
Conclusion
Great artistic focus today in these selections from @randomwanderings. I love that they're not just showcasing their amazing work, but also providing tips or helps to aspiring newcomers. Visit each post and let the authors know what you think! For submitting these selections and commentary, @randomwanderings gets paid 5 SBD today.
That's more than $20 USD!!
Each of these highlighted articles receives full upvotes and resteems from @sneakyninja. As an added bonus, @sneakyninja sponsors featured writers for Steem Basic Income!
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Great collection of works! thanks!
Thank you for the feature! The other posts are great too :)
You're welcome!
Thanks so much to @sneakyninja for featuring my post and to @randomwanderings for somehow finding me! Congrats to the other posts too, so much talent here at Steemit!
@randomwanderings randomly wanders into great content!
Okay, I'm sure he has a secret content discovery system, since he curates for @curie too. It may not be entirely random.
Thank you so much for the feature! This means a lot to me! :)
You're welcome! We love to feature great work!
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I upvoted your contribution because to my mind your post is at least 14 SBD worth and should receive 35 votes. It's now up to the lovely Steemit community to make this come true.
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TrufflePigThanks! This program is new to me, but I love the idea. I may review your lists for some hidden gems to highlight on days that I don't have good submissions from guest curators to work with.
Sure, that would be nice, thanks :-).
And this post quickly moved from truffle to well paid :-). Your Daily Sneak is indeed a great initiative and by all means deserves this!
Some of that is from @smartmarket, but we're starting to make some progress!
I always love when the art related posted give tips or go into the detailed process of making the amazing finished pieces.
Thanks for showcasing these five!
Yes, it's really awesome!
I noticed that you had not upvoted the posts you submitted. I think this is because @curie discourages it, right? You're not supposed to front-run their vote on posts you submit?
We are fine with it (our own upvote is still growing, and we want the posts to get all the love) so feel free to upvote before submitting.
Actually Curie is fine with us voting on them ahead of their vote. I am a creature of habit a bit too much it seems. Generally I wait until right after I submit the post to them. If I do it before it may "tip my hand" that I am going to submit it. At times if another curator sees that they may be able to submit it before I can. (Top curators have a shorter waiting period, whereas everyone else has to wait until a post is 2.5 hours old to submit.) And while a vote on a post doesn't necessarily say "I claim this and am going to submit it", at times it can indicate that. I guess at times I wind up forgetting to go back and upvote a post once I decide it might not be accepted for some reason. Also, I generally go back and resteem a post after it is accepted. I wait for that because if a post breaks the $10 mark before it is reviewed it can be marked "Closed" and is no longer eligible for acceptance.
For instance, the five posts here - the first three have had Curie votes "recently" - two of which I got for them. The 4th post's author had shared a couple of the photos on her Instagram account more than a week prior to this post. She did however post one since then with brand new pics that DID get the Curie vote. And the fifth one in nature doesn't fit within the guidelines.
Basically though, I just got wrapped up in everything else I was doing, and saved the links to submit to you and never got back to it to vote.
That makes sense, thank you for explaining.
We have a limit on the rewards they can already have too, but ours is much higher. Partially that's because we only publish once a day and sometimes it's a couple of days before we can publish a submission.
This is awesome! Thanks for choosing mine! I won't be able to write an article today. Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes are threatening my area. I have to keep an eye on it so I can keep people safe! Thanks again!
Be safe out there!
It didn't get too rough here in my area, but an hour south of here 2 people were killed by a tornado striking their home. It had been 283 days since the last tornado fatality. I hate to see such a long streak end. Tornadoes are horrible things. I'm still drawn to them though. There's no way I would pass someone by who needed help though.
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