Free gear if you are famous :)

Happy ending for Daniel.

http://michaelczhang.w​pengine.com …era-last-year-to-survive/

Great story.

Amen. Good things happen to good people.

"Interesting story" but I think we are missing the point here. He won 1st place in some world famous photo contest but only managed to earn enough reputation for free gear. WTF? I would expect agencies lining up to hire him instead. I don't know. It is kind of depressing to say the least. From the hobbyist standpoint, great, you get free gear. From a professional standpoint, he is not getting a job offer!!!!

TooManyShots wrote in post #15714535
From the hobbyist standpoint, great, you get free gear. From a professional standpoint, he is not getting a job offer!!!!

I think you're missing the point. He can continue to pursue his career and his passion. Without this recognition, attention and prize, he wouldn't even have gone to his next interview. I'm pretty sure if you speak to him, he'd tell you his life was handed back to him and it's okay that he didn't get a job offer (which we don't really know didn't happen).

Nathan wrote in post #15714586
I think you're missing the point. He can continue to pursue his career and his passion. Without this recognition, attention and prize, he wouldn't even have gone to his next interview. I'm pretty sure if you speak to him, he'd tell you his life was handed back to him and it's okay that he didn't get a job offer (which we don't really know didn't happen).

How? He has his cameras but has no incomes. The agency he used to work in has already downsized. The winning price money would only last him a month the most.

TooManyShots wrote in post #15714662
How? He has his cameras but has no incomes. The agency he used to work in has already downsized. The winning price money would only last him a month the most.

You're looking at it from your point of view only. You have to be able to see things the way someone else would. We don't know that he wasn't offered a job. We don't know what the future holds.

He could at least continue to freelance. That's a pretty hard thing to do when you've been forced to sell all your equipment. Without his prize, he probably would have needed to find another career path.

Nathan wrote in post #15714674
He could at least continue to freelance. That's a pretty hard thing to do when you've been forced to sell all your equipment. Without his prize, he probably would have needed to find another career path.

What the freelance market is like in Portugal, considering the EU crisis has forced many governments in most Southern EU nations to cut back on spending.

elrey2375 wrote in post #15714669
You're looking at it from your point of view only. You have to be able to see things the way someone else would. We don't know that he wasn't offered a job. We don't know what the future holds.

No, is the Euro crisis. Not my point of view.

"The Porto, Portugal-based portographer graduated from the Portuguese Institute of Portography... "

Holy mama, that's a lot of Portos...

What a great ending to what could have been a disaster for him. It gives me hope for humanity when I read things like that, thanks for posting the link.

L.J.G. wrote in post #15715345
What a great ending to what could have been a disaster for him. It gives me hope for humanity when I read things like that, thanks for posting the link.

Not much hope for professional photography as a carreer, though.

The fact that this type of story is "positive" is depressing.

3 lenses, backpack and a tripod. Jeez

DocFrankenstein wrote in post #15717144
Not much hope for professional photography as a carreer, though.

The fact that this type of story is "positive" is depressing.

3 lenses, backpack and a tripod. Jeez

that's all you need for a photojournalist!

You also need to make a living