“My going rate is about $800 dollars a day and I have given these people a lot of hours and days of free shooting, plus handing out true photographic prints at an event and publishing the pictures on my website, to support them and the charities they work with. Imagine my surprise.
Yeah. I’ll bet they’ll be surprised when you send them the bill they really owe you. I would. Call me insensitive. LOL”
I love it - great idea!
That was my gut reaction when I got the email. But then I got to thinking about it and realized it was just God's way of sending me a message. The only crapola I've ever taken about shoots was from a liberal. Most people are delighted when I offer to cover a charity event for them, but any time it's "the children" I get screwed.
I've come to the realization that liberals are all for doing things "for the ________________ (fill in the blank) but only when they can do it using someone else's money, time or resources.
You can get a feel for the number of charity shoots I do by perusing my website:
Photos by JWP
Most of the shoots on there right now are freebies, not the $800 a day kind. I shoot because I love it and it's something I can do to make up for the fact I can't donate large sums of money to a charity.
But I've sure developed a sort of radar for spotting liberals and they are amazingly consistent in their attitudes!