RE: Photo Essay | About the purpose and beauty of a photograph
I think that the photography tags are doing pretty good on steemit. For myself, I am just an amateur picture taker and sharer of just pictures. I am a long long way from being a "Photographer". There is definitely room for both on the steem blockchain. I put a lot of words with my pictures simply because they are just that pictures, little slices of life I see of the ordinary, to share with people what the area I live in looks like.
In a lot of cases, like you point out, a "Photograph" needs not words, it conveys a sense of feeling, being, or an emotion to the viewer. Words can actually hurt an artistically done Photograph, by stiffing that emotional response in people. But not everyone see's it that way, too many people think their pictures are photographs of that caliber and their picture of a rose is as good if not better than that other persons.
Yes - you 100% understood my post :-) I love following 'picture takers' that share stories, share their life. I love following 'photographers' that are just sharing their art. On Steem I'm more treating people like People than on other platforms where I was always subscribing to 'the best of the best' because that was what the platform was about (for photographers you have 500px for example - amazing content, but quite elitist if you're not on that level).
I like Steem better - even though sometimes I do miss the feeling that great photographers get recognized or have a UI that really shows off their content, I love the fact that we're engaging based on the people factor.
Cheers :-)
I am just glad that more and more people are coming to the understanding that there is room for everyone Steem Blockchain.
Yes I do - as a curator I value 'quality content', of course, but I do respect the fact that shit posts and users that are maybe less educated/good at writing still want to be part of the crypto world, and belong here too :D If not we'd be a very very elitist Blockchain ;-)