Good to see you pop in :)
A lot has changed in the last month here. And a lot of manual curation going on now with curators of various projects actually go look for stuff. Maybe you will have more love-luck now. Your photographs totally deserve it. Stick around for a while :)

Also there are thematic tribes with their own tokens, so you earn not only Steem on your posts but also other tokens that you can later trade. You might be interested in the photography one. Here is their discord if you want to join https://discord.gg/sPwSNu5