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RE: "Of Legends and High Towers: Heroes", a brief introduction.
I love your chiaroscuro style! The composition of your images is so nice. I will follow to see more of your beautiful, sparse photography. I am new to Steemit as well, and I will pass on to you something I recently learned:
You are rewarded for posting, as well as voting. The optimal number of up-votes you should give out each day is 20. That's because one twentieth of your voting power is used up with each vote, and your 100% voting power is fully replenished each day. So not up-voting is just a waste. I make it my habit to up-vote for every person that replies to my posts because it rewards them for rewarding me.
Welcome to the Steemit community!
Thank you!!! Very happy you can appreciate the styling. It's not everybody's "thing" I have discovered. Will try hard not to disappoint you with my future posts!
Glad you replied! About it not being "everybody's thing," I made the same lament to a friend of mine, a famous artist, about my own work. She said, "Reactions are capricious! What do we know?" I like how she included herself in the statement. Just follow your instinct and you can't go wrong.
Thanks for the encouraging words! Of course, your friend is right. I do feel I struggle most with feedback which categorises an image either as beautiful or not and much less considers whether the work has valid artistic value at all. Just because I have still not found any response to such critique I guess. Thanks again for the wise words. Oh... and about me replying... I do realise there tends to be some considerable delay. Sorry for that.
As for reply delay - no problem. I live in the real world too, and am not always at my PC!
Your reply gave me an idea about how to respond to replies such as "beautiful." I could write back explaining why I think it is beautiful, for example, the placement of the focus of interest, or how the light only provides a part of the scene, leaving the observer to supply the rest with his imagination. Then my responder will get a better understanding of why it really is "beautiful." Better yet, I could explain a few of these things in the initial post, so the responder will be better informed in the first place.
I think you might just have given me an idea for a future post right there!!!!