Hi there, Steemit! My introduction to this awesome platform

in #introduceyourself7 years ago

Hello everyone! I’m very new at this community (I started today) and would like to introduce myself in this post. Steemit looks really awesome so far! Here is my very awkward introduction selfie:

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Summary


Here is a short summary for those who don’t want to read the whole article :).
• I’m Alieke
• 24 years old
• From the Netherlands (Dutch)
• Designer
• Amateur photographer
• Photoshop fan
• And a nice person (I try)

About me :)


My name is Alieke Maljaars, 24 years old, and I am an industrial/UX designer and one of the millions of amateur photographers around. I live in the Netherlands, a pretty cool and tiny country in Europe.
In 2011, I started studying industrial design engineering, and I graduated from university just a few months back. So now I am trying my very best to find a nice and rewarding job in design. While originally being an interaction designer for products, I am trying my luck in the digital UX design field. We’ll see how that works out!

As a part of my study, I spent a semester in Norway, which was really awesome. I mean, they had real snow over there ;). It was just amazing. Just look at the picture below. Snow everywhere!

Photography


As mentioned before, photography is my hobby and creative outlet. Therefore, I will not post as much about my job and design, which I like, but rather about photography, which I love. As a photographer, I personally prefer to photograph portraits and people in general. I do like to get a bit creative and conceptual in my photography, but since that is something I am just starting out with, I do not have a lot experience with that, and very little examples. Perhaps discovering and photographing creative portraits will be my ‘thing’ on Steemit!

Besides my photography hobby, I like to cook and bake, and to draw, read, write and do other creative things. Indeed, I like to do lots of things. However, the only hobby that I am actually good at is photography, so I will mostly just stick with that ;) . You can imagine my happiness when photography happened to be one of the most discussed topics on this platform. Yay!

Here are two examples of my latest photography attempts.
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A glitter/christmas portrait


A surreal fall portrait

Both are very different. The first one being very darkand glittery, the second one being more surreal and dreamy. I really like both styles and I like to explore new types of styles, so I expect to make many more different portraits and other pictures in the future.

Photoshop


As much as I like to photography people and other pretty things, I do like editing my pictures as well. I learned photoshop before I learned photography! Editing pictures and create graphic designs is therefore one of my other businesses. My boyfriend and I have a graphic design business next to my other activities. I create logo’s, flyers and websites. Maybe I will share some of that content on Steemit as well, who knows!

Anyway, stay tuned for photography and Photoshop/Lightroom tutorials! I am planning to do some of those here in the future :). Provided that anyone is interested in that, of course. Let me know!

This was just a short introduction! I hope to meet new people on Steemit and find others that love photography and creativity as much as I do :).

See you around!

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Welcome to Steemit, seems like we have a lot in common, amateur photographer :) I hope you find what you are looking for here, Im sure you´ll be amazed by the awesome community and the diverse subjects you can read about here. If you want some advice or have some questions, let me know.

Thank you! I'm sure I will be spending a lot of time here reading all the different types of content! :)

Welcome to steemit @alieke upvote :)

Thank you!

Welcome to Steemit, Its a great community here. Nice photos and good luck :D

Thanks! I hope to get the hang of it soon :)

Ahh you should get the hang of it, took me a while to figure it out and im slowly getting the hang of it myself. Try steemstats.com/yourusername or steemd/@yourusername to check out how your steempower holds up and how many votes you make a day, its really helpful 😁

Commenting on posts gives as much power as creating your own posts so try and you can earn curation rewards on commenting on posts, use your upvotes sparingly, if you use the above websites you can check on how many youve used, as the more you use the less voting power you have. Voting power will refill over a few days automatically.

Theres tons of articles Im sure you can google which will explain in detail way better than I ever could. Just thought Id give you a quick run down, good luck and happy posting 😁

That is helpful information! It should help to get me started :)
Thank you for taking the time to write it down :D

No worries, just a little something that I thought would help 😁

Hello!! I love your photos!
This is a great community! You will love it! I started yesterday and I already love it!

Good luck and Welcome n.n

Hi! Thank you for the compliment ^^.
It looks great indeed! Even before my account got approved I was hooked already :D

And welcome to you too! ;)

Welcome to Steem @alieke I have upvoted and sent you a tip

Thank you!

Great introduction post with beautiful pictures. Very welcome to Steemit community an exiting place to participate. So steem on and I wish you good luck in the future :)

Thank you! So far it looks exciting indeed!

Hi and welcome on steemit. I hope that you like it here. Enjoy your time and good luck!

Thank you!

A new Steemian ^^ hello @alieke I hope you enjoy your time here,
its a great community ! Nice post, wish you much luck! I will follow your account.
Don't hesitate to contact or follow me at any time :-) See you around @thisistanvir

Hi! thank you for the reply, I will check out your account! :)

welcome my friend! glad you came!

So am I! Thank you :)

Welcome to the platform! enjoy, will keep an eye out for your posts.
Hope you are doing well fellow Dutchie!
I travelled for four years and blog about it now, post about Amsterdam as well, saw you saw that.

Thank you!
Indeed, I was looking through some posts and saw a post about Amsterdam. Well, that made me curious ;)
I will check out more of your posts soon!