The Local Guides program has impacted my life a lot. As I mentioned in my video, I had trouble finding DIY crafts stores 4 years ago, that’s when I decided to update the information on Google Maps and become a local guide, I hoped other people can avoid this kind of situation and the inconvenience.
I focused on adding photos when I started doing this, I believed the good photos can let people receive greater messages than reviews and I can always receive the reports from Google Maps, these actually help me to improve my content, I can know better about how people want the photos to be.
Another thing that I like to do is adding small businesses on Google Maps, this can help those small businesses to be known by more people, some of them are located in small alleys which are hard to be found.
When I received my first report from Google Maps, I shared with my boyfriend and told him that many people do see my photos! I always shared the excitement with him, a few months later, he joined me in this! From then, whenever we travel together or go to new places for our date, people can see us are always taking photos (lol), this also becomes an interesting competition between us, we like to compare whose photos are better and also improve our photography skill together.
I love photography and I’m doing modeling as my hobby, I’ve been doing modeling since 2015. I like to explore amazing places with photographers and I share some of my works on Google Maps, too! Below is captured at the perfect timing with the fishes swimming above my head!
Sometimes, a place will have different scenery as the season changes, like the photo below, you will only see this beautiful garden cosmos from late winter to spring at this place.
I like to share different types of photos than others, something that many people may not notice, so the viewers can see a place in many aspects. I have so much passion for photography and modeling, I would love to continue sharing my works with the world!
In the beginning, when I just started being a local guide, I only updated the basic information like operating hours, phone number, etc. but slowly, I realized that people prefer to know your real opinion and feedback like which cake is very unique in this café and what makes it unique or when is the best time to dine in this restaurant because there are live performances during that time. As I have a better understanding, I’m sharing my thoughts and helping people to discover the world now. Our world is such tremendous, there must be lots of places still undiscovered yet, I will keep my passion and continuing exploring it!
Thanks for reading, hope to see you at Connect Live 2020!
- Sunny