The Enemy Of My Enemy Is My...oops!

In one of his/her/its more recent posts on the photographers-we-hate-because-they-like-Marc-Adamus site, the M.A.L.ady goes out of his way to highlight an essay, found on another photographer's website, on "Bigtime Photographers" (photographic wannabes), which he/she/it is convinced somehow describes Adamus and other photographers who admire his work. Of course, the essay says nothing about Adamus or anything relating to him or his artistic style, and it is quite a jump in logic to tie the two together...but, let's face it, jumps in logic are about the only time you can actually use the words "M.A.L.ady" and "logic" in the same sentence.

There's one more problem: the essay appears on the site of...Jesse Estes.

Does that name ring a bell? If not, you may wish to check out the "M.A.L.L. Honor Roll" to the right, and notice Estes' name on the list of photographers who are obviously better than the M.A.L.ady, based on him/her/it going on personal attacks against them.

And, indeed, you don't have very far to look to find the following in a July 13, 2009 post on the original M.A.L.ady blog:

Too stupid to create your own images? Just copy a Marc Adamus image!

Copying Marc Adamus images is a big hobby for “passionate” MORONS, THUGS, & IDIOTS who desperately seek the “fame” they think Marc Adamus enjoys. It’s gotten so bad that his workshops/photo tours are simply an excuse for MORONS & THUGS to place their tripods in his tripod holes and copy his images down to every last detail.

Don’t believe us? Check out the images of THUGS such as Ryan Dyar & Jesse Estes, for example. This level of stupidity & fanaticism is somewhat unnerving.

(That post resulted in Estes being listed on our honor roll; the post elevating him to that position can be found here.)

At any rate, the same Jesse Estes previously described as a pro-Adamus "THUG" has now apparently become one of the M.A.L.ady's heroes, simply because the M.A.L.ady was able to twist Estes' words beyond all recognition to turn them into an attack on Adamus.

And, from what I've read elsewhere on the Internet, Estes isn't too fond of the M.A.L.ady, either -- and with apparent good reason. In a message to another photographer targeted by the M.A.L.ady, Estes wrote:

I noticed some traffic coming from a microstock forum this morning and noticed that you had posted the whois for the loser website. Whoever that guy is used my old whois info and registered the domain.

I have nothing to do with that website at all, and I'm in the process of removing my name from the domain through ICANN. I would appreciate it if you would not post my name out there as being behind this stupid mess... Whoever it is, also doesn't like me either.

regards,

--jesse

I'm sure anyone who looks at the striking images on Estes' website can have no doubt in his mind that he, indeed, has nothing to do with the M.A.L.ady. As for the latter, he/she/it can take comfort in one matter: there's no way Estes will ever rank the M.A.L.ady as a "photographic wannabe"...because, to be honest, he/she/it is much more like a "photographic never-was."

In which we honor more notable photographers...

Back in his first incarnation, the M.A.L.ady made a point of not only putting up a site attacking Marc Adamus, but also secondary sites attacking those he/she/it deemed friends or supporters of Adamus. (Although I was chagrined to note that there never was a "Tarzan Wilcox Lies" site.) So, it shouldn't be too surprising that "M.A.L.ady 2.0" is up to his/her/its old tricks again, this time concentrating his/her/its insane rants in a one-size-fits-all site attacking "Loser Photographers." While I won't stoop to recognize the psychotic clown by giving a link to the site, I will say that the ravings there are even more lunatic than ever, including the utterly bizarre notion that anyone who photographs a scene from the same location as a previous photographer is a "thief" guilty of "copyright violation" (it would be, uh, interesting to see the M.A.L.ady try to get that interpretation past a judge), and has even gone so far as to mount a campaign to get one such photographer fired from his job as an airline pilot for taking photos from the same locations as other photographers...including Marc Adamus himself! Personally, I would have loved to be a fly on the wall at the airline when they received the letter demanding they fire one of their pilots for taking landscape photographs on his days off, but I digress...

In any event, one of the nice things about the M.A.L.ady deciding to launch another one of his/her/its scattershot attacks is that it gives me a chance to add new names to the "M.A.L.L. Honor Roll" of photographers whose work is better than that of the M.A.L.ady. Accordingly, there is now a "baker's dozen" of new photographers added to the list. Check out some of their links and be prepared to be amazed at some utterly stunning imagery. And, when you contrast it with the continued total absence of even a single photo ever posted by the M.A.L.ady, you have to ask yourself, "just who is the 'loser photographer' here, anyway?"

P.S.: Maybe the M.A.L.ady wanted to forestall posts such as these, because, in his/her/its later rants, you find they didn't name their "loser photographers" at all, simply putting up "candid" shots of ridiculous-enough-looking photographers (seen from behind or far enough away to be unidentifiable, presumably in order to avoid those pesky libel suits) and asserting, without any evidence whatsoever, that they were pro-Adamus "thugs and morons." Curious how you can conclude that about a person just because you deem them to be unattractive, M.A.L.ady. (By the way, why don't you show us your portrait, so we can decide whether you're worthy of being made fun of, too?) But there's one thing that's probably a safe bet...that each and every one of the "funny-looking" photographers can take better pictures than the M.A.L.ady as well.