Thinking of becoming a professional landscape/nature photographer? Think, again, Gomer! A couple words of advice.

Thinking of becoming a professional landscape/nature  photographer? Think again, Gomer!

Forget professional landscape photography, an industry DESTROYED by Marc Adamus & his cronies.

 In these tough economic times, many are wondering what their next step will be in the search for a career, or a job to pay the bills. Times are desperate. I understand, truly. 

 You may have seen the online advertisements for art schools, especially the ever-present Brookings Institute ones. They use bullshit phrases like “follow your passion”, with a picture of a backwards-baseball hat wearing loser and a tripod/camera in a field, to describe one ad.
 Don’t even think about it! While many college degrees offer at least a chance of career advancement or a better job somewhere down the line, these photography degrees are worst than a waste of money. They’ll leave you deeply in debt, for nothing.

 In fact, even trying professional photography without a degree is a losing venture. Don’t believe us? Take a look at Flickr, for one. That’s thousands of losers you see, just itching to be published and have their “abilities” acknowledged publicly. Forget getting paid to be published; these losers will pay others to have “their” images published. You have no chance against these imbeciles! In fact, you have less than no chance, because these losers steal the compositions of real professionals, thieving hundreds of years of artistic experience, and throwing it away for pennies on Dreamstime (a de facto terrorist organization that wages economic terrorism against the USA). 

This is what Marc Adamus & Kevin Mcneal breeds: dozens of LOSERS who are desperate to be published.

See these losers? They’re all lined up, loser by loser, desperate for fame and fortune. They don’t care about being paid for these images. They will pay others for the glory of being published. You have no chance against these imbeciles!

 Look at the scum Miles Morgan. Earning mid to upper six-figures as a senior airline pilot for United Airlines just wasn’t enough for this ambitious artistic titan. No, he had to chase that elusive fifty cents an image that microstock offered. And so he did. This so-called pillar of the community was, in fact, waging a jihad against an all-American industry, all to satisfy his selfish, personal lusts for recognition and fame. He even exactly copied images Marc Adamus had taken, which Marc had no doubt hoped to license for hundreds of dollars, only Miles was offering them for cents. I wonder if Miles Morgan had any photographers living on his block. Photographers who would greet him and smile at him, without knowing that Miles was stabbing them in the back and undermining their work. Without knowing that his desire for vain recognition had no limits, even to the point of helping to destroy jobs and committing what can only be frankly described as acts of economic terrorism. What else would you call someone who steals something you made, and then tries to sell it for pennies on the dollar, only in this case it’s for vanity, not to pay the bills?

 Why am I telling you this story? Only to explain how the odds are completely stacked against you as a potential professional photographer. There is no hope, none, of employment in this field, at this time. Even if you are extremely good and manage to market yourself to the right audience, envious scum like Miles Morgan (and thousands of others on Flickr/photo.net/npn) will copy your work (ie, steal), and give it away for pennies. The photography industry is in rapid decline, and the unfortunate truth is that it may have to be completely destroyed, flushing out all the Miles Morgans/Darren Whites/Marc Adamus’, before it can be reborn and provide the jobs it once gave to decent Americans.


 Don’t make the mistake of investing thousands of dollars and hours of your time into a hopeless field. The scum that are currently ravaging this industry, the Adrian Kleins, Kevin Mcneals, Jim Pattersons, Steve Sierens, they just don’t care. Their personal quest for fame and money is far more important than anyone’s career, life, happiness, or anything else in this world. Don’t get caught up in this rat race. Don’t be another person stuck selling “workshops” or “photo tours” to pay the $6000 minimum bill for the photographic equipment you’ll purchase. Read more about that here.
 You are probably reading this blog post because you happened across it while searching Google on prospects in the photography industry. 

Don’t be another statistic, saddled with tens of thousands in debt from a photography school, or thousands in debt for equipment you can’t use to create enough revenue to buy a soda pop, thanks to the SCUM, THUGS, and fame-seeking MORONS out there.

THUG of the day: Adam Adkins “I work so hard for this photo to get 3 thumbs up!”

THUG of the day: Adam Adkins


Many THUGS & MORONS get their start on sites like Photosig.com, where a willing group of like-minded LOSERS wait eagerly to endow “three thumbs up” (3TU) on practically any image that passes by. Images that are copies (ie, stolen/copyright violations) of professionals’ images are guaranteed 3TU’s. 

That sort of brings us to the IDIOT Adam Adkins. A nerd/dweeb office worker in real life, in an alternate reality, he thinks he’s a passionate landscape photographer. He’s got his own website, called “Adam’s Photographs”, where he waxes “poetic” about his enormous “passion” for photography. Lots of lies on this website, and a list of his $6000 of photography equipment (you know, his “pedigree”). Almost all of his images are rather mundane, despite the website bullshit about “climbing to the top of mountains during lightning storms and blizzards”. More LIES on his “PRINT SALES” page, including this howler: “*Can be printed at virtually ANY sized comprehensible!”
When I was done laughing, I read more of his crap and realized that this idiot fancied himself quite the writer (like most of the THUGS & MORONS). Yet, the entire site is riddled with grammatical and spelling errors. 

Now that we’ve introduced this tool, let’s move on to Photosig. He recently posted one of his lame photos on photosig (here), and it didn’t do too well. Only one “3TU”, and this upset poor Adam, you see. Take a look at his response to the only 3TU:

“Thank you Oleg, thank you! I got up so early and drove so far and worked so hard for this photo – I was hoping it would be worth at least 3TU!”

(Let me also note that the lone 3TU “critique” was written by another perennial Photosig THUG who only visits the same clichéd locations in search of that drug-like “comment & critique” high.)

There you have it. As we’ve said before, these LOSERS who pick up cameras today are no better than drug addicts. They crave the praise from their fellow imbeciles the way a crack addict craves the pipe. Addiction to “comments & critiques” is a mental disorder, nothing less. Only a mental disorder would drive idiots to spend thousands of dollars in search of positive reinforcement from fellow scumbags. Worse, in their search for a drug fix, their actions damage the legitimate, income-earning, tax-paying professional photographers who pay their bills with photography & print sales. 

Cursed be vain imbeciles like Adam Adkins who only pursue photography for the promise of fame, praise, or recognition. Their insane desire for recognition destroys American jobs and leaves us all worse off.  

Imbecile Adam Adkins in all his fame-whoring glory, as seen on Photosig.com

A note about the 2nd operator of Marc Adamus LIES 2.0, and some words of appreciation for this individual.

A note about the 2nd operator of Marc Adamus LIES 2.0



The small-penis COWARD Marc Adamus has used his army of lawyers to close in on the other operator of Marc Adamus LIES 2.0/Loserphotographers.com. It is quite common for corporate THUGS & liars/scam men to use the legal professional to intimidate and squash critics. While this individual will not be named by me, as his identity is not yet public knowledge, I can only speak of my highest regards for him and his work on this project. He’s had to take a step back and abandon this work in order to prepare to defend himself against cowardly legal attacks, but I will continue the work myself for as long as possible. Thanks to all who have posted encouraging comments on both blogs!

About that Steve Sieren “Visualization Before a Trip Into the Mountains” blog post: turns out it’s more “post-visualization” and not “pre-visualization”.

Steve Sieren, the LIAR and FRAUD



Steve Sieren is a LIAR, a LOSER, and a general piece of shit. Why do we say that?  It’s OK to mess around with photography and try to sell some stuff, and even become pro if you’re good, but Stevie really makes his money selling bullshit workshops & photo tours. Workshops/photo tours are a scam that is bleeding the photography world dry. Fat old losers, or skinny losers (Miles Morgan) jerk off to Flickr “comments & critiques and think that buying a “workshop” or “photo tour” from LIARS like Steve Sieren will let them tap into that treasure trove of comments & critiques. 

 However, once they’ve put $6000 into their 5d mark II and lenses, they always desire to “sell” some photography to justify their insane expenditures. It doesn’t mean they need to make $4000 a month from photography. 25 cents an image will do just fine (Travis Manley, anyone?). And that’s where the damage comes from. Bear in mind that scumbag Miles Morgan, who tried to sell images taken with his $6000 of equipment for pennies on microstock, got his start in comment/critique addiction by taking a NW Photo Tours workshop, run by those fine scammers Adrian Klein and Kevin Mcneal, two of the biggest pieces of shit you’ll ever run across. You know, the sort that act friendly and smile at your face while stabbing you in your back with a graduated, neutral density dagger. 

 So anyway, Steve Sieren knows that selling workshops is his real bread & butter, so he busily creates lies and myths to help him look like a Really Big Thing in the photography world. One of those things is being a filthy shill for Nik software. Another, which we will talk about here, is writing this bullshit “Visualization Before a Trip Into the Mountains” blog post. Here is the image that he supposedly created, to give God a clue as to What Steve Expected when he rushed out to the Wilderness:

The Steve Sieren Pre-Visualization, or what you're supposed to believe is a pre-visualization.

 
 Apart from resizing it to better fit this blog, it is unedited. Anyway, the idea here was that Steve sketched all this out before he went somewhere, to either imply clairvoyance, scientific flexibility, or possibly both. But he didn’t really sketch it all at home. It turns out that a lot of the text and sketch was added in Photoshop. Nothing about these turds surprises us anymore, but Stevie should have really been an honest loser and admitted that he messed with the sketch after his “vision” didn’t come to fruition when he went there. 

 What really happened is that he sketched about 70% (pardon the pun) of it at home, thinking it would turn out Exactly As Steve Foresaw, but when he rushed out there, heaven forbid! God didn’t listen to Stevie’s witchcraft and give Him the light He desired. So Stevie limped back home with his boring images and added plan “A” after the fact. Usually, plan A comes first, but in Steve Sieren’s world, it is added when Plan “B” doesn’t work out.Take a look: 

A closer, zoomed-in look at Steve Sieren's "vision"

Another look at the section in question.

And here’s all the fake stuff Steve added after he came back home:

Steve Sieren added the items in red after he came back from his trip. Click for larger version.

Since we understand that Steve has desires that he won’t share in a public venue, here’s a skillfully obtained copy of what Steve really wanted to write:

What Steve Sieren really thinks about "pre-visualization". Click for larger version.

Now there’s a plan! Honestly, we wouldn’t make this version public either, if we were Steve.