I have been here for 5 years now

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Such a wild ride

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Man, it is hard to believe that I have been here on the blockchain for five years now. It sure has been a crazy time and I have done so much during that time and met some of the coolest people.


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I joined Steem back in January of 2018. It was basically right after the crypto market collapsed back then. I joined Steem because I had heard about a way to share your photography on a social media site and earn crypto in the process.


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It was pretty slow going for me back then and I spent a ton of time networking and getting involved with different projects. After a month of consistent posting and sharing my photography and stories, I made about a total of $1. It wasn't until I started sharing my pictures from the safari I went on in Tanzania and started sharing more of those stories that I really started to do better. All that work was finally beginning to pay off. You can check out my massive post about my safari here African Safari Adventures.

Then I shared my documentary film I had created and it got the attention of Curie and some other curation projects. This film is about a helicopter pilot during the Vietnam war. He talks about losing everyone onboard the helicopter as he flew in to save a group of Marines that were pinned down by the enemy. During the film, he is reunited with one of the Marines he saved that day and he talks about his struggles with PTSD. It is probably one of my favorite works that I have ever done.


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During my time here on the blockchain, I have been lucky enough to travel to different parts of the world to meet up with members of the community. Steemfest 3 in Poland was such an amazing experience. I had always wanted to be able to visit Auschwitz, and being a part of the blockchain gave me that opportunity.


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Poland was my first Steem meetup and I met some really amazing people. We had some great times getting streetfood between presentations and just getting to know people better.


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Steemfest 4 in Thailand is one of my greatest memories I have in my life. I was fortunate enough to travel there with my wife so she could meet a bunch of my friends that I had made over the years.


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During Steemfest 4, I was able to help showcase some artwork created by the members of our community. It was so cool seeing the work of these great artists on display in Bangkok.


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Thailand is a magical place that my wife and I really hold dear in our hearts. This trip helped my wife let go of so many things that she had been holding onto and look forward to the future. We were lucky enough to be on the beach in Pattaya during the lantern festival. It was such an amazing experience and I am glad that my wife and I could be there together for it.


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During my time on the blockchain, I have shared many pictures of my pets and many of you have been able to watch them grow up since they were just tiny babies. I remember when I began sharing pictures Rusty and he stole the hearts of many of you.


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Rusty has grown into such a special cat. He is one of the most loving animals we have ever had.


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A few years ago, I was able to travel around the United States to create a book about the Civil War and Civil Rights.


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The book sold a lot of copies and has gotten really great reviews. It was cool being able to show the process and all the work that went into creating this book and I am grateful to have a place like Hive to share it all with people from all over the world.


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Hive has been an amazing outlet for me to share my creative works. I have met some of the most genuine people from all over the world here. The community is what makes Hive so great.


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My first five years here have been so awesome and I can't wait to share more of my adventures. Thank you to everyone that has made my time here on Hive so memorable. You are all awesome!

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It must have been a good time to join Steem Hive 5 years ago, I just came from @ablaze post where he's also celebrating his 5th year here.

Your work on Hive has been nothing short of amazing and covers so many different genre, it's always a delight to see them, even though I may not always comment 😅 It was also great to meet you guys in Bangkok the other year, hopefully we'll meet in another HiveFest sometime

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Thank you. It was awesome for my wife and I to meet you. I really hope that we can do it again soon. If crypto has a good run this year, we will definitely be making it to the next Hivefest.

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Happy Birthday! Enjoying your content, especially your photography, the contests and now your grower journey. To many more years on this great blockchain.

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Thanks man. It’s been a trip so far. It will be interesting to see what my content is like in another five years.

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Wow and what an awesome time it has been.
Congratulations @derangedvisions 🎉🎉🥳🥳 I surely have to check out your older posts (before my time here hehehe ) as now I am super curious. Thanks for sharing some of the highlights.
The kitten photo of your cat is just the cutest thing ever 🥰

To many more years my friend 🍾🥂 Cheers!
!LUV

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Thank you. Rusty sure is the sweetest cat in the entire world.

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You are welcome, you can almost see that 😊 give Rusty a big hugggg 🤗🤗 have a nice Monday further!

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So amazing man, 5 years is a major milestone and coincidently, you share your 5 year anniversary with @ablaze haha pretty cool.

That documentary sounds really interesting man, I'm going to put it up and watch it on the tv this evening.

Also, being able to travel the world and go to different fests is an amazing opportunity. Me and one of the lads got offered tickets to go to Hive fest in September, but we had to decline them, it would have been a great chance to speak about the film, but he had a lot on and I had just recently found out that my partner was pregnant so it wasn't possible sadly. This coming one we'll be at though, who knows maybe I can even bring my partner with me.

It's amazing that the Thailand one was able to help you and your wife bond and help her let go of some stuff.

Here's to the next 5 years! 'Imaginary clink of a champagne glass.'

!PIZZA !LOLZ

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Man I hope you can go to the next Hive fest. They are so much fun and it is super cool to meet everyone that you interact with here on the chain. Good luck with everything.

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Thanks, man, you too!

Yeah, 100% going to the next one, I had all the intentions of going to the one in September, but things happen. I've told my partner about the upcoming one, once the day is announced we'll get plane tickets sorted. So we might book it as a holiday for ourselves, or something, knowing her though, I don't know if it would be her thing, but we'll see. I'd love to meet everyone, I've heard so many great things about the fests.

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Happy hive b-day!!! I just had the 5-year Hive b-day yesterday. Looks like we joined almost on the exact same day.

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Happy 5 Years on Hive!

Congratulations mate.. you came a long way ahead. 1 day on Hive Blockchain is like 1 hour tbh...the way time is running fast here tells how fun this journey is.

Always have enjoyed your content and this journey of your is inspiring! Wish you many more years full of fun and adventures on Hive!

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Happy 5th hive birthday @derangedvisions it looks like you've had a blast, and steemfest 3 was also an eye opener for me too. Krakow was an awesome place, and the trip to Auschwitz a gut punch of a trip that taught me so much.

It is definitely true that the community, and the diversity of all the people on here, is what makes hive so special.

All the best for the future 👍🙂

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Steemfest in Krakow was such an amazing experience. I really hope to be able to make the next one.

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I'm with you on that one.

I Missed Thailand and Amsterdam (which i thought I'd be able to make last year's hivefest) but hopefully be able to make it to the next one.

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I also used to work on the steemit earlier and then later when I came I also started working on hive but I could not work for some time now I have started again so the community here is very good and Supports the new users a lot. At present there are many dapps working on hive and there is very strong project and in coming days we will see that will be popular all over the world.

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Happy Hive Anniversary! Yeah, its wild to think this thing has been around that long!

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Admirable contents you have shared on hive for the period of five years and more still coming, congratulations on your success ✌️
Rusty is so cute,

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Man, we go way back. I think we got in touch almost right after we signed up, didn't we? You have shared so many photo's filled with incredible stories. You are amazing Wes. Glad to have bumped into you on the chain.

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Thanks man. I appreciate the compliment. I think it was a little over a month after I got on Steem that we met. It has been a wild ride, that's for sure.

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Epic ride indeed :) Happy Hive Birthday man!

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Thanks man. It is crazy to think back of everything that has gone on during that time.

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Right. I was celebrating my fifth back in November and I also couldn´t believe how much happened during those years... It´s really cool that we still love it here ;)

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So much has changed since we first started too. It has been wild.

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When I look at your profile, I can see 5 years of work, man. Sometimes I read your old posts. Even though it takes a really long time to reach them because you have shared a lot of posts in 5 years, they are still really worth reading. I'm glad you joined us. I hope we will celebrate your 10th anniversary here together.

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It's crazy to look back at all the posts I have made. There is a lot of them. Hopefully we are all around in another 5 years. That would be cool. Hopefully by that time we have all been to a few Hivefests as well.

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Congratulations and just entered the five years club myself 🥰🎉❤️

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met some of the coolest people.

I'm part of that list, right?????

Thank you so much for teaching me how beautiful photography is and allowing me to be part of your community. So far you have been the most helpful person on Hive and I will be thanking you until I get hit by a truck.

You are awesome Wes, happy belated Hive birthday :P

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In 5 years you have achieved great success. My sincere congratulations to you. Have a good day🌸

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