Hi
I am just wondering about when are the cool perks happening for local guides who are in the upper levels. I started being a local guide for no other interest than sharing my own perspective of places and food. I am so happy to know that my photos are very much viewed and have succesfully helped people.
For me, pictures speak more than a thousand words. I have found many times myself looking at photos from other local guides to decide about places and food I would want to try at certain place. Having pictures from places and food does help a lot when deciding or going somewhere new.
So, I do appreciate other people’s efforts when they take the time to capture a place or food. I do invest some time in capturing the best shot and this involves making a stop (when on the road) or walking the extra mile to visit a place and get that picture. Other times, I try to capture the best shot for the meal I ordered, and this unfortunately makes my meal warm or makes me drool and hangry while I attempt to capture the dish.
So, with all this, (I guess it has happened to some of you as well) I sometimes wonder if there will be any cool benefits for us, I mean, the people that take their time to make photos and upload them. Many other sites compensate their “content creators” VERY WELL… so… we are also these kind of “content creators” and there are no cool benefits (in my own experience) for us ( sadly )
I think it would be very encouraging, nice and supportive to receive some kind of reward for making these kind of contributions, in the end, we are spending our most valuable resource: time. Anyways, i’ll keep posting cool stuff for people and hopefully some cool perks will come along as well.