Mark Adams

Chief Community Officer

When creative types gather, oftentimes a maelstrom can ensue unless there's an opposing force to keep the floodwaters at bay. With his gentle nature and affable demeanor, Mark Adams is the calming presence that binds together the creative geniuses of LaCour and ShootQ.

As a founder of LaCour, Mark is dedicated to the studio's creative mission of documenting the first chapter of each new family story. In addition to educating clients about the value of photography and how their photos will lay the foundation for their family legacies, Mark strives to educate fellow photographers on the intricacies of running a photography business. Mark brings to ShootQ an acute awareness of the details involved in running a photography business, integral knowledge that forms the basis of ShootQ's endeavor to help photographers with studio workflow, business practices and the evolution of multimedia design.

LaCour photographer Mark Adams shot this photograph of a couple's fireside kiss, at a wedding the North Georgia mountains.

Before immersing himself into wedding photography, Mark worked as a photojournalist in the news industry for publications such as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, St. Petersburg Times, Commercial Appeal (Memphis) and The Sun News (Myrtle Beach, SC). While at The Sun News, Mark produced multimedia stories integrating still photography and audio. Mark continues to integrate multimedia storytelling into LaCour's wedding photography.

While in college at the University of Georgia, Mark won first place in the prestigious William Randolph Hearst Foundation's Photojournalism Championship. Since then he has photographed extensively throughout the world, including Europe, Haiti, Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa and Zimbabwe. He has photographed icons such as Nelson Mandela and covered events such as Alaska's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, as well as the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.

When not capturing world events or moments of a lifetime in the weddings he shoots, Mark emerges from behind the lens to play a hand or two of poker and hit the blacktop on his motorcycle.