I see @curangel is not 100% downvoting your pictures. So what they are doing is merely adjusting your payout to be more in line with the effort you put in.
Curangel is all about finding high quality content and making sure it gets a good share of the rewards pool. In order to spread the rewards to good content from authors that don’t have a big following they also reduce the rewards from those that have a big following, but create lower quality content.
If they really don’t like what you do, they will reduce your rewards to $0,00. Since they let you have those $4-ish, they are merely adjusting for perceived quality.
$4ish for a single photo +/-100 words is pretty damn good! I'd be grateful to receive half of that on one of my posts with many more words and pictures...
Yeah, I would be very happy with that as well
Finally proper explanation.