Wow, that's incredibly inspiring. I like your idea to give new life to the photography tag as well, there's plenty of posts and I get the feeling sometimes that the really good posts are lost in the masses. There are too many hidden gems here on Steemit.
"I make more in curation in a week than I do at my job in a month"
That's amazing. Curation is the one thing that I don't fully grasp yet, you basically just upvote good articles? Do you get more rewards in ratio to your Steem Power?