Just for laughs

Sam

Recent Craigslist:
Construction Site Photography Needed






© craigslist - Map data © OpenStreetMap



(google map) (yahoo map)

compensation: no pay


Hello,

We are a well-established commercial landscape developer with projects throughout the Bay Area looking for some high-res action shots of our crew members hard at work along with some shots of the projects themselves. This is an ideal opportunity for a student or even an aspiring amateur to get some experience, add to your portfolio, make some contacts at the largest contractor of our kind in the industry, + More.

We currently have a project in Menlo Park that would be a great place to start, get a sample of your work, and evaluate the possiblity having more work for you with some potential compensation.


My response:

Hi,

I am offering landscape contractors like yourself the opportunity to gain valuable experience
along with fantastic promotional visibility.

While I am unable to offer any pay at this time, once my neighbors see my yard transformed from the current unsightly dead grass into a thing of beauty your phone
will be ringing off the hook!!

Looking forward to promoting your services through my new front yard!!

Thanks!!

jonh68

Awesome!

pmbpro

! So... any response yet? Hehe.

Sam

pmbpro wrote: »

! So... any response yet? Hehe.

No response......I didn't expect any. What the heck could they say?

Just a sign of the times. :cry

Sam

Angelo

Goodonya Sam.

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Jerrodmyth

Hey Sam if they respond are interested in going national, I have a challenge for them down here in Texas.

Sam

Jerrodmyth wrote: »

Hey Sam if they respond are interested in going national, I have a challenge for them down here in Texas.

Welcome to Digital Grin.

Folks like this want to get free stuff................. but just ask them for free stuff!

Sam

Gastrocnemius

As good a place as any to say hello again to Dgrinners after several years away.

This is the second post I read after deciding to consider again using my camera to put food on the table... so very timely.

Reminds me of the time a couple of friends of friends offered me the chance to shoot themselves, their child and their dog in 'various locations and some nice studio shots'.

"It would look great in your portfolio and we'll treat you to a curry for your trouble", they went on to say.

I politley declined. Although I regret not getting a shot of their beautiful dog, I am otherwise emotionally intact.

Stephen

Tom Foster

The reason why it's so hard to make it as a photographer nowadays though is there's always someone who doesn't have such qualms (and probably not the experience or gear either) about doing work for free (or for 'exposure').

Everyone and their dog it seems have DSLRs nowadays and think they could at the drop of the hat quit their day job and become professional photographers!

Thelensspot

Sam wrote: »

Welcome to Digital Grin.

Folks like this want to get free stuff................. but just ask them for free stuff!

Sam

How true how true!