RE: What's up Steemit! I'm a self taught photographer from West Virginia!
Here are some good guides to get you started on SteemIt:
This guide shows you some of the things which you aren't able to learn from the basic tutorial: https://steemit.com/steemit/@thecryptofiend/the-missing-faq-a-beginners-guide-to-using-steemit
This website keeps an updated list of apps running on the Steem blockchain (this includes DSound and D.tube):
http://steemtools.com/
I noticed that you only used one tag in your post. You can use up to five tags, use all 5 slots to increase your post's audience and profitability. Think of this site as the trending page of post tags for SteemIt:
https://steemit.com/tags
This guide will help you understand how to write a fluid post in a markdown browser to publishing your blogs:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@steemitguide/steemit-markdown-tutorials-for-beginners-a-compilation-of-my-written-guides-to-help-you-edit-your-posts-via-raw-editor-like-a
Read the Steem white paper if you haven't done that yet, so you can understand how this system works. It is an explanatory paper written by the developers of the Steem blockchain:
https://steem.io/SteemWhitePaper.pdf
Last thing! Follow me back and check out my follower section on my profile to find other Morgantown users and steemians!
Thanks for the input mayne!