Good read, as a newbie here on Steemit, and also not a writer or a blogger, I used my other skills to share to the community. Since my wife @junebride and I love to travel and collected a lot of photographs along the way, I used those in my posts and added some short stories with them. Like what you've said, I also tend to join photography contests also to gain more visibility and commented on other posts if I have the time to do so.