I thought it was important that I started looking at Marc Adamus’ site and combing through the LIES I find there. Why? Because this is the public face of Marc Adamus, the face he shows to the average public person wandering around the Internet.
Let’s start with quoting the entire “biography” part of http://www.marcadamus.com/content.php?page=bio:
Marc Adamus is a landscape photographer based in Corvallis, Oregon. The visual drama and artistry of his photographs are born of a keen eye for the many moods of Nature and a life-long passion for the wilderness. This passion shines throughout Marc’s work and has attracted a wide audience around the world.
Marc’s style is unmistakable. His talent for rare captures of amazing light and fleeting atmosphere imbue his portfolio with a sense of the epic, majestic and the bold. His success derives from patient single-minded pursuit of all the unique moments that generate the magic and energy of the wilderness, often spending months immersing himself in the landscape he shoots despite the rigors of season and weather.
Marc’s photographs have been published extensively worldwide in a large variety of media ranging from calendars, books, advertising and the publications of National Geographic, Outdoor Photographer, Popular Photography and many more. Marc has been acclaimed as one of the most talented landscape artists of his generation.
Here’s my standard Marc Adamus claim analysis format:
| Marc Adamus Claim | My analysis |
| Marc Adamus is a landscape photographer based in Corvallis, Oregon | He’s not a landscape photographer. A workshop selling scam artist and a professional Photoshopper, maybe. |
| The visual drama and artistry of his photographs are born of a keen eye for the many moods of Nature and a life-long passion for the wilderness | The “visual drama” & “artistry” is all fake, the kind that impresses online imbeciles. Talk is cheap online, which is why you will not hear Marc’s images praised or analyzed in any meaningful, real-life publications. And Marc was living on his parent’s largess as a young whelp, flunking out of cooking school. Not being passionate for “wilderness”. |
| This passion shines throughout Marc’s work and has attracted a wide audience around the world. | The only thing that “shines” throughout Marc’s work is a Lot of Photoshop. And again, talk is cheap. You will find Marc’s wide “audience” online on meaningless Internet forum’s. Not in magazines, newspapers, TV, or any other form of real-life media. |
| Marc’s style is unmistakable | A lie. Go to Flickr or Photo.net. How many exact copies of Marc images? How many strikingly similar images? What separates Marc’s images from those other losers? More Photoshop, and more accurate application of that Photoshop. That’s all. |
| His talent for rare captures of amazing light and fleeting atmosphere imbue his portfolio with a sense of the epic, majestic and the bold | Rare captures? See above. How can it be a “rare capture” or “fleeting atmosphere” when every other imbecile on Flickr has a amazingly similar copy? And why is that? Because Photoshop is the secret ingredient that makes the image, not patience or a talent for rare light. |
| His success derives from patient single-minded pursuit of all the unique moments that generate the magic and energy of the wilderness, often spending months immersing himself in the landscape he shoots despite the rigors of season and weather. | Oh really? I thought it merely started “in the field”. Now Marc is saying it’s really just his “patience” and “pursuit” of wilderness. Bear in mind that unlike the landscape photographers of old, Marc is busy teaching workshops at those times he claims he’s “immersed in the landscape”. |
| Marc’s photographs have been published extensively worldwide in a large variety of media ranging from calendars, books, advertising and the publications of National Geographic, Outdoor Photographer, Popular Photography and many more | Untrue. Marc’s images have been published a couple times, NOT “extensively”. |
| Marc has been acclaimed as one of the most talented landscape artists of his generation. | He has been “acclaimed” by anonymous imbeciles on the Internet, and also by himself. NOT by any publication OF ANY SORT. |
I’ll be looking at the rest of the Bio page over the next couple weeks. I’m sorry to say that landscape photography is in this sort of condition today, with hundreds of shrill LIARS like Marc Adamus and Mark Metternich spewing selfish, self-serving LIES that destroy the credibility of other photographers and reduce them to no more than fanciful Photoshoppers, in the eyes of the public. Stay tuned for further analysis.
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