So there was a moment during a wedding shoot last week when I took a 30 second break from photographing the couple and quickly got these pictures... and they turned out so well. Nice lighting makes all the difference.
BIG COTTONWOOD CANYON
There are two really nice canyons in Salt Lake County and I often do photoshoots up them all year long. Winter sure brings a totally different vibe and it's so amazing. I often go up the canyon in search of the beautiful aspens but in winter it's also nice to know where the Pine trees are at.
COMMUNITIES USING A DAO APPROACH
I want to quickly introduce or tease an idea.
Communities will soon be rolling out (they're already in beta testing on Steemit and SteemPeak will likely be next week) and in some of my recent posts I've discussed their amazing potential and also discussed how the governing accounts are essentially a way of ownership of the final decision making of the community and no company or site has a centralized ability to shut you down nor sever the connections that community has with the users of the community.
In addition to these owned types of communities there will likely be open communities which may see more of an anything goes non-moderated feel kind of like a more strictly organized topic vibe.
I submit there could also be DAO type communities. DAO meaning Decentralized Autonomous Organization. Aka a fancy way to say a Decentralized Community that is not owned by any one individual and in a way is owned and operated by the entire group but maybe has still has some sort of organization structure in place to help make decisions.
There are ways to make this happen even on steem... there are ways to make one account require that many accounts have to agree in order for one other account actually make an action. Typical route would be by using Multi-signature functions. Granted that tech has not been explored a ton on Steem ... but I'm told it is a thing.
THE FUTURE OF THE PHOTO DAO
When you finally jump into communities go search out "CLICK - A PHOTO DAO"
There will be MANY photography communities, there already are several. I even help run a couple right now like the Photo A Day community and the On the Spot photos that both approach photography from a specific use case instead of "Photography in General"
BACKGROUND TO PHOTO DAO
Earlier this summer I spent many days thinking about the concept of creating a community or a tribe for photography that NO ONE WOULD OWN that would potentially have a board of directors to help make decisions and be the people to make negotiations with photography companies and what not and pull the trigger on the economic decisions that were in the best interest of the community.
I have big plans for it still... i'd personally like to integrate a tokenized system into this particular community and work to bring in stores and other photography companies as partners and yet not own the community myself nor give myself free money but turn it into a DAO where the decisions are made to make the community experience better and better and make the token better and better.
The first step is a truly independent decentralized foundation for the content and I think that comes with Communities.
MANY DIFFERENT COMMUNITY STRUCTURES
So this is an example of what is possible with communities ... it's not just about what the topic of the community you join is gonna be ... it's also about who runs it and what they have in mind for the community. I am specially interested in communities that attempt a DAO type structure where even all community members may find ways of feeling ownership or even financially benefiting (hopefully from hard work and solid economics)
I don't think DAO is the solution for everything... 
But I repeat something I said in another post
"No my dear: you didn't create a COMMUNITY you created an account and gave it a title"
Just because you paid the 3 steem and created a hive community account and called it something doesn't mean you created a community as the world knows it. Also the best proven community organizers in the world are not on Steem... to have the best communities it's not just about the tech... we need to look at bringing those people here to our tech and tell them the proposition we have... that a community on steem can provide them with the ability to create something that is not dependent on one site or one company and that when a user connects with you or your community it is a connection that can't be broken unless that user themselves decides to end it. And that their community skills will be rewarded and looked at by sites like steempeak as something of great value. Unlike FB who let people create communities on their platform then one day said in order to reach the audience you created you now need to pay... and there was no recourse because there was no other site or other method to reach that audience but through FB and their new terms.
