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Scott was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and moved to Napa when he was 10. Having had cameras since 6 years old Scott is very comfortable looking through the camera eye and framing his subject matter. His early exposure to wine was through his father who always liked his red wine with dinner. His first jobs were at many of the fine dining restaurants in the Napa Valley where he was encouraged to taste many varietals of wines.
With his love of music as a guitarist, singer, and keyboardist though, he was being primed for technology through that interest. After graduating Napa Valley College with two degrees in Electronics Technology and Electronics Communications, Scott attended Sonoma State University to pursue sound engineering and ended up in the Jazz & Commercial Music Major due to his great appreciation of music. This was the beginning of exposure to what he coins the "wine music crowd" which introduced him to a roommate that worked at some high-end restaurants in Sonoma County and San Francisco who often brought home some great wines. While attending SSU, he worked two summers at Domaine Chandon in the cellar and Joseph Matthew's Restaurant & Winery. The latter included two hours of wine training every morning for about three weeks prior to crush. He started out liking the "big" chardonnays, (malalactic fermentation - credited to University of Davis and Robert Mondavi), but through the roommate he came to a transition over about a 3 year period to much preferring reds (Cabernet, Pinot Noir, Zinfandel and Merlot).
After SSU, he took a hiatus from school to travel with his band as a guitar player and singer through eight European countries where he stayed with host families, a couple of which had wineries on the Rhein River. During this time his foray in video started when interviewing a local Romanian soldier. Upon returning from Europe, he went to work for Pacific theaters selling advertising which taught him about graphics and more in commercial photography.
Scott then attended San Francisco State University's multimedia extension program from which he started his own company Video Integrations as a multimedia producer which included videography, photography, webmastering, graphics, and all the production techniques required for those. He was the top intern at SFSU from whom many of the students came for help and advice on software and hardware. He has developed great expertise over the years in producing video and still photography.
Scott's interests in wine, the various wine country regions, and in multimedia have brought about his enthusiasm for wine valley landscape photography. After many friends kept encouraging him to show and sell these photographs, this site and gallery have come to fruition. Scott's hope is to share many inspirations of the beauty of the wine country throughout the world. He currently lives in the Sacramento area of Northern California which is a short drive to the Napa Valley where his family still resides.