I've been photographing the landscape for many years. A workshop experience in 1992 transformed my thinking and understanding about a life spent in creative photography, helping to sharpen my focus and clarify my goals. I am interested in the history of photography and believe that an understanding of the past can help clarify the present and future. With this in mind I study the old masters and the current crop of excellent workers who knew them. This current group of teacher/photographers is our link to the very beginnings of what is now often taken for granted and ridiculed, but never surpassed for revealing the wonderful beauty of Creation: Straight Landscape Photography. It is in this tradition that I work.
It is my deliberate intention to create excitement for this type of photography and to encourage others to pursue it. I've done a little teaching and lecturing; and hope to expand this creative outlet in the future.
Thanks to a very understanding wife, I've been fortunate to be able to travel and spend a great deal of time on personal work both far from and close to home. I expose between 300 and 500 sheets of 4x5 film per year on non-commercial, creative photography and this leaves many older images unprinted while new ones continue to appear.
I thank my photographic cohorts for their inspiration, perspiration and companionship over the years. Many of them were with me when these images were made and in some cases could not have been created without them!
There exists a long-standing tradition of western landscape photography; often overshadowing anything done 'back east'. I will not fight that trend with this group of images. However, as a life-long resident of the Midwest, and now a recently transplanted southerner, I will attempt to show that landscape photography does exist east of the Mississippi.
The typical subject matter of landscape photography has been whimsically described as 'roots and rocks'. One reason for this is that unlike most other subjects, they tend to hold still for the long exposures often required by low light levels as well as the small lens apertures used to make images with sharp focus and maximum detail. Additionally, Earth's beautiful natural forms lend themselves to creative interpretation; making the successful photograph more than just a record of that which is before the lens. To quote Edward Weston from 1930: "This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.-Significant presentation-not interpretation."
Education
The Ohio State University B.A.; Photography 1988
Photographic Workshops:
Juried Exhibitions/Awards
Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition 1994
Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition 1997
Pensacola Museum of Art 100 Mile Radius; April 1998
ADSO of Ft Walton Beach 6th Annual Regional Fine Arts Exhibition; April 1998
Bronze Brush Award - Third Place
Fort Walton Beach Art Museum 17th Annual Show; October 1998
3rd Place
ADSO of Ft Walton Beach 7th Annual Regional Fine Arts Exhibition; April 1999
Merit Award
ADSO of Ft Walton Beach 8th Annual Regional Fine Arts Exhibition; May 2000
Silver Brush Award - Second Place
ADSO of Ft Walton Beach 9th Annual Regional Fine Arts Exhibition; May 2001
ADSO of Ft Walton Beach 10th Annual Regional Fine Arts Exhibition; May 2002
ADSO of Ft Walton Beach 11th Annual Regional Fine Arts Exhibition; May 2003
Honorable Mention
5th Annual Celebration Spring Art Festival; Celebration, FL; April 2005
Third Place, Photography
Non-Juried Exhibitions/Awards
Friends of the Southwest Public Libraries Annual Photography Show; September 1994
Third Place - Professional Division
Friends of the Southwest Public Libraries Annual Photography Show; September 1996
Professional Division: Best of Show, First Place, Third Place
Okaloosa County Fair Art Show; October 1996
Honorable Mention
Friends of the Southwest Public Libraries Annual Photography Show; September 1997
Best of Show – Professional Division
Okaloosa County Fair Art Show; October 1997
First Place and People's Choice
ADSO of Ft Walton Beach 40th Annual Beaux Arts Exhibition; February 1999
Best of Show and First Place
Okaloosa County Fair Art Show; October 1999
Second Place
ADSO Photography and Digital Art Show; July 2000
Best of Show
ADSO Photography and Digital Art Show; July 2001
Second Place
ADSO Photography and Digital Art Show; September 2002
Honorable Mention
ADSO Photography and Digital Art Show; September 2003
Best of Show
ADSO Photography and Digital Art Show; October 2004
First Place
Solo Exhibitions
Columbus Metropolitan Library; June 1994
Okaloosa-Walton Community College Arts Center; June 22 - July 24, 1997
Published In:
1993 Cover for Warner Cable Channel Guide;
Columbus, Ohio
1998 Land of the Canyons
2002 Photographing the Southwest; Volumes 1 & 2
Scott's work is held in several private collections across the United States.
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