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Whatever lies within, can only be self-discovered ~ thursday green / Steepshot test

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Travel shots #5 Japan - The most colorful sights of Japanese temples, the paper cranes (orizuru)

Japanese legend claims the person who folds a thousand of these paper cranes, will be granted a wish...better start folding! The legend The paper crane, orizuru...

I flew from Amsterdam to Tokyo and all I got was this lousy cookie...a story about airplane food and gas station baloney / Story Cubes entry

Just kidding of course, there was plenty of food during this 11 hour flight. As it should... What a lousy cookie... What is shown in this photo is an actual sal...

Navigating the different editor modes and how to center your text in Raw HTML - Must read if you can't enter the Editor mode

Today I read someone talking about problems writing a post and finding their way through the different editing modes. In this post I will explain to you how it'...

Colorchallenge: IndigoSaturday - My personal discovery of the color Indigo and what it tells me about my personality

Like always when entering a Colorchallenge, I want to do more than just post a random photo and keep it with that. So I went out to research this fantastic colo...

Weekend Writer's Block...for the third week in a row on Steemit / (not just a) Blue Friday Colorchallenge

Really, I don't know what it is with those weekends... I just can't seem to find any inspiration to post anything. "Okay so don't..." Yes I hear what you're thi...

Composition in Photography - using leading lines to determine your own perspective

Composition is one of the major pillars of photography. It is one of the most invisible yet noticable things that can make or break an image with its presence o...

Three random photographs I sold online - What are customers looking for? / Twenty20 follow-up

In a previous post I already told you where I sell the majority of my photos, in this new feature I'm going to take 3 random photos that I've sold once or maybe...

Creating my own Steemit logo in Graffiti letters - step by step drawing

I like drawing this kind of stuff, I've done it since I was 10 years old. For my Steemit introduceyourself I drew a Steemit logo of my own and I wanted to share...

Behind the photo #2 - Up or down the stairs? Fibonacci would be proud...hopefully

In this feature I get into a little background on a photo and tell you exactly how and why I got making it. I took these photos on a special day. My mother, who...

StayStrongAppie - How one of the greatest talents of Europe turned out to be only human

Today was a sad day for everyone involved with Dutch football, especially here in Amsterdam. Last week the team of Ajax Amsterdam played a pre-season friendly i...

A proper introduction: my name is Carlo and my account is @thePhotoGuide

So I have been here for two weeks under the name @thePhotoGuide and I did do a kind of introduction to explain my account name, but I hadn't introduced myself p...

SteemitPhotoChallenge Entry 'Celebrations' / How to photograph sparklers

Bright colors lighting up the darkness, the distinct smell of sulfur, happy people everywhere...I'm talking about fireworks. We have plenty of reasons to celebr...

Color challenge #2 - Blue friday / Bicycle on the Amsterdam canals

Some of you might wonder, why is this bike fully colored in one bright color? Surely they don't sell them like this? That's correct, they don't.  I took th...

Travel shots #4 Japan - Tokyu Plaza Ginza, the best view of a Tokyo pedestrian crossing

We have all seen it in movies: the pedestrian crossing in Shibuya, Tokyo. It is worldfamous for the insane amount of people that cross it at the same time, in a...

Behind the photo #1 - Photographing in the evening fog

Every photo has a story behind it, in this new feature I want to give a more detailed look on how a specific photo was made and which camera settings I used. To...

How to make money with photography - Part 2 / Selling your photos on Twenty20

This is part 2 of my guide to earning money with your photography. If you haven’t read it yet, be sure to do so here. Yesterday I told you about stocksites wher...

Travel shots #3 Japan - Traveling the country on the high speed bullet trains (Shinkansen)

The Japanese bullet trains are without a doubt the easiest, fastest and safest option to travel the country. To me it represents the extremely well organized Ja...

How to make money with photography - Part 1 / introduction

Making money with photography, who doesn’t like that thought? Nowadays owning a camera is as normal as it has ever been. Cameras are getting cheaper and cheaper...

Travel shots #2 Brussels - My unplanned visit to the Atomium building in Brussels

I had always heard of the Atomium building and seen some photos of it but I had never been there before. Since it was built in 1958 for the Brussels World's Fai...