This one is a particular and unique story told in full color. Since I join the Steemit community my life has given a 180º degrees turn, which is why I thank “@dobartim” for letting me tell my experience in this contest https://steemit.com/steemitultimatechallenge/@dobartim/2c1grk-steemit-ultimate-challenge-8-weeks-prize-fund-2000-sbd-week-7-registration-is-in-progress-last-week.

The photographic gallery that I will show next will tell my story throught differents colors that represent an important aspect of my life that has been changed by this new social network.

Blue – About myself

My name is Mery Emperatriz, I’m a 22 years old lady, my favorite color is blue and I’m currently studying Civil Engineering. I consider myself a born cartoonist, both on paper or on a pc, and I think that’s my talent, to make living an art.

Also, I deeply love photography, which is why most of my post have photos taken by me, showing or expressing my feelings, sensations, thoughts and ideas, and I think is what gives value to my content. I like to put into my articles the things that I madly love, hoping that maybe someone will find it as wonderful as I.

Red – New Frienships

The guy that brought me to Steemit is @danielvehe, with a Facebook post. He is a good hearted person who helps a lot to all those who are beginning in this world.

As I grew in the community I had the chance to participate in my first Cervantes’s Meetup, organized by my friend Daniel. In this Meetup I had the pleasure of meeting this wonderful people which nowadays are my friends: @angeltirado, @leonellaforever, @dorada, @marialefleitas, @oscardice.

Since then we see each other in every meeting sharing joyful and productive moments, allways looking the way to help us mutually. I’m really happy for knowing so talented, unique and sincere people that show how full of dreams and personality they are in every post.

Green – Adventures

As I’m writing more and more, I needed to have constant inspiration, which had been forcing me to get out of my comfort zone, to know beautiful parts of my city that I have never had the chance to see in my life, simply because I didn’t knew they exist. This is mainly because when you live in Caracas, it is dangerous to even walk to the next street, (today, before I started writing this post, I was robbed on my way to the subway) but in spite of all this, I had been adventuring to the unexpected and risky of my city, because if you stay locked in your house, are you really living?

Fuchsia – Fun and Learning

Steemit has become a fundamental tool for my knowledge development as I want and pursue to enhance my content, and not only to gain more upvotes, but to deliver quality and authentic content to my followers. This has been one of my greatest challenges, and if you are asking what I have been learning I’ll have to say: deeper knowledge of writing and spelling, English, photography, Lightroom and Photoshop, and that is without including all the knowledge of the different cryptocurrency’s projects (which I believe is the future).

There are a lot of tools that I have to learn how to use throught my time in this community, and not because I have to, but for FUN! That is the most exciting of all this, I have never had more fun and the best part of it is that I am seeing the results, which really push me forward even more.

Yellow - Economics

This is a pretty singular theme, since living inside the chaos of the Venezuelan Crisis made me a slave of the country’s economy, looking every day for a new job that paid 1 USD per month.

Growing in Steemit is something hard and requires a lot of dedication, That’s why I thank every one of my followers, it’s because of them that I have been able to relieve a bit from the burden of the Venezuelan Crisis. I remember with great relief that January’s day in which I arrived home with food for restoring our “War Box”, a Box we keep full of food in case of a social outbreak, which was almost empty.

Purple – My support to the community

Since I started I admired a lot those enormous communities that are constantly betting on the quality and originality of the content. The day I join the @theunion group I could not believe it, I was excited and happy because I could help it grow and be part of something bigger.

In spite of being a very young project, every day we put a great effort on offering to the community different tools like a variety of tutorials (photography, orthography and online marketing). Recently I have been proposing to make photography workshops here in Caracas, so those newcomers to photography who do not have a Reflex camera could learn how to use it.

Be part of this project is my greatest contribution to the stemian community, and in spite of not having the economic status to help even more, I’m currently giving writing and spelling (Spanish) lectures on @theunion channel.

White – Goals and Dreams

My greatest dream achieved thanks to steemit so far is being able to buy my new semi-professional camera named “Blanca”, with this beautiful camera I have been able to capture gorgeous landscapes and amazing pictures. Even while it isn’t a Reflex (or professional) camera, this baby has allowed me to show my talent and to let my creativity flow, it represents a lot to me, as it let me to set free my passion.

In regard of my futures goals I would love to achieve new heights and be able to buy the professional camera that I want so much, help those people who doesn’t have that asset through photography workshops, learn a bunch of new things and keep helping those communities that always give a friendly hand.

Steemit, a place to do what your love, to be continue…