Let me Introduce myself to the Steemit Community (Original images)

Hi everyone!!

My name is Jean-Louis and I'm a photographer from Tracadie-Sheila, a small town on the east coast of Canada. I've been introduced to Steemit by one of my friends who knew that it would be a great platform for me. My main contribution to the community will be original images that I have created as a landscape and wildlife photographer.

At times, I’ll maybe also post about my other interests in life such as beer league hockey, offroading (I’m the proud owner of a banged up Jeep Wrangler), music (especially local band/artists) and many more that you will hear about in the following weeks or months.

I’m not a fast writer, but I try to deliver quality every time I write some thing. I won’t be the guy who posts 3 times a day, and you’ll rarely see images that I took the same day or week. I’m not a photojournalist, I don’t have the opportunity to shoot great pictures everyday. But don’t worry, my picture library is respectable in size and I will have plenty of time to produce new material before I go thru all my already existing material.

I will mainly post in english, but my native language is french, so you can discuss with me in french if you want! I’m not only a french Canadian, I am an Acadian. I’ll talk about what it means to be an Acadian in length in some future post, but I’ve linked the wiki page for now.

I’ve been on the platform for 2 weeks now and I really enjoyed the content and the vibes . I didn’t make my first post until now, because I wanted to read the white paper before starting. I can’t say that I understood everything, but I get the general idea and I like it!

I’ve been around from the beginning of social media, I was 19 when Facebook appeared. It was great at first but it became, for me, a total waste of time. Same thing for Reddit, great idea but it wasn’t engaging for me, so I never posted.

When I discovered Steemit, I almost couldn’t believe it. For a landscape/wildlife photographer like me, it is very hard to make money from digital images, Steemit is a new alternative for the distribution of my images online. I've been selling framed prints localy thru small exposition for the last 4 years. I've always dreamed of making my own prints and frames, but for now I have to outsource those 2 key elements of my final product. I honestly love the result, and I now completely trust my print shop and frame shop (sadly their shop burned down 6 months ago, I just hope they will reopen someday).

I am a self taught photographer, photography has been my main hobby since I was 15. I started with a 35mm camera bought used, for 10 years as I could only afford that. Then, 5 years ago I bough my first DSLR (it was a Canon 5D classic). For me it was a big jump, my learning curve went thru the roof. After that, I never looked back. I won't talk much about my gear right now (it will come), but I will say that I use Canon DSLR and L serie lenses, Manfrotto tripod and Lee filters. I'm a total gear head, and I would love to help people with photography gear questions, but remember I don't know everything :).

I hope you liked what you saw and I will see you guys around!
Peace out!