Your first blogger doesn't really qualify. The intro post is way to old and her couple current posts are photos only without any text. Don't' worry this happen to a lot of first time entries and your entry still is valid.
The second blogger has been upvoted.
Know that the level is an issue sometimes, but the rules are much easier then they used to be. We were level 50 and below and it takes a good amount of rewards to go from 50 to 55.
Hope you join us again next week.
Thank you @philipkavan for picking me! I am so sorryto hear that the standards made by @pifc don't fit my content, or my content doesn't fit their standards...however.
There is this quite word-narrative preference that many blogger platforms support. Still, I believe that photography or a drawing or a painting, or music can do the story, and that words don't have to be there always.
Cheers!
If there are enough photos they can tell a story, but a couple photos just don't unless you just happen to catch something amazing. Even the most iconic photos of all time went into a magazine with a story and the photo was supporting the story. Then in turn the story made the photo iconic as it became engrained in the minds of those who read the story. They may not remember the words, but the image lasts because the words touched them.
As someone who took many photography classes I've met enough people who felt their photo told all, but even they took the time to explain where the photo was taken, when it was taken, and all of the details of the lenses and camera settings when they displayed their works. Sadly those who felt this way, not one has ever "made it" as a photographer. The ones who have done well that I met over the years all understand the need for story telling and how the photo draws people into the story and even becomes the story once others have read the story. The image is lasting, but the words were needed to properly frame the photo.
The word requirement at 200 words isn't hard to hit and removes what most on steemit see as low quality posts. Side note this simple reply is long enough that a post would qualify. Seriously takes less then 5 minutes of effort.
I am actually glad this interesting discussion is opened! :)Sorry if it seems so, I am really not determined that my photo says it all, but I am sure that one photo can say a 1000 words, so that is the place I am stressing on. Regardless, I have learned a lot on how steemian community, or one part of it sees the "good content". It is very easy to write 200 words, I am not saying it is not, but making a good photo is not just matter of time, so this is also a place on opening new topic: What is blog? or: Can we say that photo blog is - blog?
For me, one of best blogs I have ever seen was that, a photo blog of a man (late) called Jamie Livingston. So I consider myself a supporter of this form, too. Don't get me wrong - not that I don't like the written ones. No.
Here is a link to Jamie's blog, I hope you would enjoy it.
https://photooftheday.hughcrawford.com/
Part of the issue on steemit is the massive volume of low quality photos that are used as "content" just so they have something to be voted on and buy votes for. I have made an exception a couple times for a few amazing photos, but they were truly amazing photos and think it was 4 or 5 of them. This has maybe happened 2 or 3 times out of 400-500 submissions with 2-3 featured bloggers each...lets call it 1000 featured posts. Very rare and to avoid confusion I'd rather keep it simple.
I can tell a good photo, one done with thought to framing, lighting, and shutter speeds and so forth but honestly most people just can't. They haven't had any sort of training in the field and will say "nice photo" to a photo of car on a street shot with a cell phone with horrible lighting and framing of the subject just because...when in reality the photo was just total crap and an excuse to have a post for the day.
So not trying to pick on you in the least with these descriptions as I don't think your photos were crap by any means but to keep it fair and simple we came up with the 200 word rule. Has saved me probably hundreds of hours trying to explain why a post is crap vs high enough quality to be acceptable when it comes to photos.