They are beautiful animals. I'm sure by now most of them know you by name :)

The competitions I was talking about earlier is called @photocontests

Click on the green name which will link you ot the page and follow the page. Then every day you can post 2 entries onto the daily competition. Each day of the week is assigned 2 topics.

Monday: foodphotography and animalphotography
Tuesday: landscapephotography and cityscapephotography
Wednesday: architecturalphotography and vehiclephotography
Thursday: macrophotography and colourfulphotography
Friday: streetphotography and portraitphotography
Saturday: sportsphotography and smartphonephotography
Sunday: goldenhourphotography and longexposurephotography

Interacting with the posts by upvoting and commenting in these categories will earn you experience points within the competition.

When posting a photo- just one in the post if you're entering it into the daily competition- add a little bit of info as well as the camera that you used to take the photo. Then use the relevant tag of the day as one of your 5 tags. If your post gets chosen you can get an upvote from them.