Marc Adamus: “You can fake anything you want online, but not forever.” A moment of profound IRONY!

A moment of profound IRONY!

 

“You can fake anything you want online, but not forever..”

 Coming from Marc Adamus, this is truly profound! It is no small irony that this phrase describes Marc to a T. This comment (which used to be on Photo.net until Marc Adamus removed it), is the poster child for irony. So we have created a new PSA to celebrate Marc’s sense of humor:

 

Our second Marc Adamus image critique: “The Inside Out”

Our second Marc Adamus image critique

 

    

Marc Adamus "The Inside Out"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“This image was made inside an enormous, intimidating sea tunnel as waves thundered up and down the chamber. Once I saw my opportunity, I’d run in after the receding water, shoot as fast as possible with 2 second exposures and run back out before the next big one came in. The echos and booms off the walls in this chamber, as long as a football field, made for a wild experience. You can tell something about the wave action in here by the fact the rock is wet 30ft off the ground! The mist in the air from all the water action created the diffusion at the opening you see, which I felt added to effect. The cave is located in Oregon and only accessible certain times of the year at the lowest possible tides.”

 Honestly, compared to the previous image critique (Mountain Mountain), this one is downright boring. We might also add that Miles Morgan was one of the first turkeys to lustfully comment on this image. No doubt he was hoping that Marc would tell them where the cave was, so they could rush there, make an exact copy of Marc’s image, and then scurry to Flickr for “comments and critiques”!
Anyway, on to the Image Critique:

Marc’s Comment	Our commentary
This image was made inside an enormous, intimidating sea tunnel.	Bullshit. This cave doesn’t look very big.
As waves thundered up and down the chamber.	Hey, why not just say 5 foot waves? You’ll find out soon, actually.
The echos and booms off the walls in this chamber, as long as a football field, made for a wild experience.	Marc just wanted to use the word “wild”.
You can tell something about the wave action in here by the fact the rock is wet 30ft off the ground!	And there we have it. What an adventurer! Went into a cave with 30 feet waves! Of course the waves are not that big. The cave is wet because of all the mist. Duh.
The mist in the air from all the water action created the diffusion at the opening you see, which I felt added to effect.	Marc neglected to mention that the mist also created the wetness on the walls. Much better to simply imply that this cave experiences 30 foot waves.
The cave is located in Oregon and only accessible certain times of the year at the lowest possible tides.	Of course it is. No doubt it is also accessible whenever you buy one of Marc’s Oregon Coast photo tours.

“I’m a dainty little painter, yes I am please compare me to Ansel, please”

Marc Adamus LIES 2.0 commentary


“I’m a dainty little painter, yes I am please compare me to Ansel, please”

 This comment was left on our first Marc Adamus image critique, “Mountain Mountain”. Despite being immediately accused of making up all the comments ourselves, we had nothing to do with any comments left on the blog. We do want to point out that this small, 14 word comment describes the essence of what Marc Adamus is. He has taken to constantly comparing himself to Ansel Adams. All fraud, of course. 

 Did Ansel compare himself to other photographers? Did other famous landscape photographers spout: “like so and so, I only get a dozen keepers a year.”. Of course not! Marc Adamus is completely obsessed with how he looks to other people. Once, he hid all the Photoshop work he did. Now, he revels in it, drawing comparisons to “painting”. He’s also fond of claiming to study the works of the great painters. (Other frauds like Ryan Dyar regurgitate this bullshit on their own websites).
Yeah right! Did the great painters sell workshops? Did they run around, constantly telling anyone who would listen about how passionate or awesome they were? That’s the MO of a complete fraud, and a loser who is absolutely obsessed with himself. Anyone who is passionate about anything doesn’t have to say he is; it’s evident in his work. 

Marc Adamus’ new angle of comparing himself to Ansel Adams or painters is, of course, doomed to fail. The more complicated the lies become, the greater the chance that the LIAR will snare himself with his own bullshit. It’s happening at this very moment, and Marc Adamus LIES 2.0 is proud to be the driving force behind exposing this small-penised LIAR.

A couple points about Copyright Law and Copyright violations.

A couple points about Copyright Law and Copyright violations.

 

 If someone were to copy a Steven Spielberg movie (for example), the repercussions would be severe. Whoever did this, if they ever even got as far as to have a finished product, would be attacked by armies of lawyers, ridiculed by the press, and maligned by the public for what would amount to a shameful act of theft and appropriation. 

  Now the rules governing photography, another section of the visual arts, are about the same. You can’t just run around appropriating someone’s compositions, the feel of their images, or the text on their website. Why is why the following image is so shameful, and a real indication of the dreadful direction our society has taken:

 

 Now what is wrong with this picture? Apart from the blatant, disrespectful, shameful theft going on, the other thing that’s wrong is:

1 These losers/scum aren’t being attacked by armies of lawyers.

2. These losers/scum aren’t being ridiculed by the press.

3. These losers/scum aren’t being maligned by the public for what amounts to a shameful act of theft and appropriation.

 Now don’t get us wrong. We don’t expect Miles Morgan or the other three stooges in this photo to feel any shame or remorse for what they are doing here. They are remorseless, immoral THUGS who lack empathy and feel no compunction at committing crimes like this. In fact, most of these bozos run all around the West committing the crime of copyright violation, every day. There are hundreds of these losers on Flickr and elsewhere. 

 The secret here is that images don’t protect themselves, and copyright doesn’t enforce itself. If Steven Spielberg didn’t sue a thief who stole his movie, nothing would probably get done. An IP/creative arts professional needs to be proactive about protecting his work. Copyright that isn’t enforced is copyright that is essentially given up. 
 
 There is nothing noble or good about what these pathetic imbeciles do. It’s financial terrorism. It’s completely inartistic, lacking in shame, and devoid of respect for another person’s ideas and property. It destroys the photography industry, destroys jobs, and fills the pockets of Chinese and Japanese camera companies at the expense of a native industry. Miles Morgan and his other bozo friends would serve us best by throwing themselves off a cliff (Rowena, for example) and ridding us of their malignant, damaging presence. Or, at least, spending a nickel in the federal pen as an example to the rest of their stupid buddies. 
 In the future, when people awaken to the terrible injustice carried out by these THUGS, the time when LOSERS were allowed to scurry around, Xeroxing/stealing professionals’ images, will be remembered as a most shameful time in our history. A time when economic growth was destroyed and peoples’ careers were destroyed so LOSERS could feel good about themselves on Flickr.