One year on Steemit .....

So The last time i Introduced my self is over a year ago.
Back then i was living In Oss , the Netherlands and in October last year we moved to a new house fresh build in the City Nijmegen als in the Netherlands.

I'm Mick Agterberg retired due to illness and do Photography and online Gaming to kill my daily time.
I still consider myself to be an amateur photographer and i keep learning new tricks every day to improve my skills.
For my Photography i use Sony cameras currently i own and use :
Sony A700
Sony A6000
Sony A7II

My lens collection:
Sigma 12-24mm DG
Sony Sal 18-55mm 5.6
CCTV - tele lens 25mm 1.4
Rokkor 28mm 3.5
Vivitar 35-70mm 3.5
Rokkor 50mm 1.7
Helios 44-2 58mm 2.0
Vivitar 80-200mm 4.5
Jupiter-9 85mm 2.0
Sigma 105mm Macro 2.8
Sigma 150-500mm 5.6

First impressions about steemit was and still is , lack of security i still miss the option too secure your account / wallet with a authenticator.

Another thing i noticed is copyright violations left and right , no respect for other peoples work . Thankfully we have @steemcleaners trying to keep everything within certain limits.

The changes we witness over a year the Rise of the voting bots, no reason to interact i'll just talk to a bot they are killing the social in the social media it was supposed to be.

Yes i also use Bots , i'm even a moderator for one of the biggest upvote communities @qurator with their own Witness, simply because they try to educate people on how to proper user content that ain't yours and they really go for quality over quantity .

They don't just accept every chicken that shouts " here take my money and vote" the actually check peoples account by hand for plagiarism and wrong sourcing of used content.

What i really would like to see on Steemit is Groups or Albums right now you can't sort your content , it's almost impossible to find things back that you posted a long time ago. And out of frustration i even created extra accounts so that is can sort out my content a bit that way, there is @bokeh , @macrophotography and @monocat they all have their own niche ;)
And makes it easier for me to keep things organised.

I love to take macro pictures but sometimes they also have very nice bokeh and then there is the cat Jinx also a very nice subject, and sometimes i do landscape and streetphotography but i keep those on my main account .

Flowers and insects are the real challenge for me like this fly that i made earlier this week

Or the Lantana flowers with raindrops

and sometimes it's a flower or other subject with great bokeh like

and sometimes we go for reflections

I know i'm a bad writer, writing things like this cost me a lot of energy staying focused and not getting distracted is one of my daily struggles , so if there are parts of the story not clear just ask and i'll try to edit it .

all shown images are created with my Sony A7II camera ;)