It's easy, must be as I get it. What you need to build is your steem power, convert any steem into it. The more steem power you get the stronger your vote is and the more you will get in curation from voting for other posts. You can use your SBD to buy more steem or just let it build up.
I know you've loads of great photographs so try to post 4 a day and work on building your steem power as much as possible.