By the way, this is an awesome post and I think you can do really well on this platform. In the future you might want to think about posting on steepshot or partiko. these are apps based on the steem blockchain. steepshot is similar to instagram and so caters to photographers and has a nice looking feed. partiko is an app that lets you post from your mobile but also rewards you with their own point system just for posting, commenting, and voting. you can use those points to get upvotes =)

Also spreading your photos out over multiple posts may be a good idea. Posting regularly increases your visibility and might help build your audience faster. if it helps you can write posts ahead of time and schedule them by using steempeak.com which is another frontend for the steem blockchain that has more features than steemit.

Also consider using the steemitworldmap since you do travel photography. That would boost your visibility and rewards.

If you have any questions about anything let me know .