Mark Adamus

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.

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.

"Mood and emotion are the primary elements I seek to capture in all of my work, and for me, these are the images that evoke that emotional response the strongest."

My Favorite images:::
1) "Great Beyond" Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. WOW! This creates such a mood of mystery and beauty. The starry sky is stunning and the waterfall coming from the background into the front in a good trail for the eye. He says he combined 2 exposures for this which I would guess. He needs 1 for the night sky and another for the landscape at twilight. The exposure used for the sky took in more than 5 times as much light as is seen by the naked eye, using an extremely high ISO, a big aperture of f2.8 and keeping the shutter opening for 45 seconds.
2) "Ethereal" Central Oregon Coast. Dramatic twilight skies and a long exposure create the surreal, otherworldly mood. I like the ghostly water on the rocks again.
3) "Magic Mountain," Mount Rainier National Park. Taken as the moon was setting. I like this particularly because the clouds are clear and divide the mountain. It looks like the mountain is rising over the cloud horizon.
4) "The Storm Wall" Glacier National Park, Montana. Again, a longer exposure created the movement of the water and waves. The black and white gives the feeling of being cold and stormy in this image.