I have been busy, but quiet, for a while. You know, life. The details are pretty mundane but I have been focussed on a lot of personal stuff and I have been slowly making progress on my van. So many of my future plans revolve around the van and what I hope to be able to accomplish with it. I’ll post a full update soon-ish but I do hope to be able to make my first trip in it to the RPM Barona Drags on May 3rd. I have such a long way to go with this build and it is very rough but I’m hoping that all of my work with the less glamorous stuff will pay off and she'lll get me to Barona and back safe and sound. Making a big push in the next two weeks to hopefully bring this former tweaker van that I bought in parts on its first new adventure in 35 years. In the meantime here’s a moment at TROG Flabob in 2022 with the Omaha Coupe in the morning mist that really makes me want to hit the road and shoot, write and reconnect again. Hope to see you all again soon.
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Happy (belated) 91st birthday to the legend Jim Dunn. It is such an honor to photograph these Legends. This portrait was captured in my small tent studio at the 2023 Nitro Revival.
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This is not the kind of photograph that gets a lot of likes or attention but I find myself drawn more and more to moments like this. It’s the kind of photograph that you need to spend a little time looking at to see what I saw and what inspired me to press the shutter right at this moment. I shoot a lot of film so every time I press the shutter it costs me money – I don’t take that lightly. I’m always looking for moments with a lot of details so that the photograph is not a one-trick-pony. There are times for that for sure but as I look at historical photographs the ones I find most interesting are ones that give me a more in-depth look at the moment captured. The older the photograph the more important the details seem to be because so many of the elements of that moment are gone forever – the people, the location, the fashion, the experience that everyone was having at that exact split second is never to happen again in the same way, ever. That is one of the things I love about photography – every single photograph is history.
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Just a simple, SoCal moment.
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There is something special to me about the RPM Barona Drags. The combination of the location, the track, the people and the entire experience makes me feel like I’m taking a step back in time. The track is old, rough around the edges and a bit unkempt – but that’s not a critique, it’s part of what makes it special. It feels like I’ve taken a step back in time to the 60’s or 70’s and you can feel the ghosts of races past and the decades of memories made here – in all of the right ways. It kind of makes me feel like a kid again with my face mashed against the chain link fence close enough to make my ears ring and smell the hot cylinders exploding in front of me. I really haven’t found an experience quite like this anywhere else. The RPM team always puts on a fantastic event and the mix of hot rods, dragsters and madmen (and women!) pummeling their cars down the track was absolutely perfect. I hope that with this short series you might get just a little taste of the magic found here and tempt you to come experience this for yourself.
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Remembering the amazing day spent photographing the McGee Roadster for the October 2023 75th Anniversary Hot Rod Magazine cover story. What an incredible opportunity. A huge thank you to Hot Rod Magazine and John for the opportunity, The Petersen Automotive Museum for bringing the car to where it was shot on the campus of USC in 1948 and to Bruce Meyer for filling in for Bob McGee and for helping to make this happen. What a day!

See the full story in the October 2023 issue of HOT ROD Magazine, and see more outtakes and BTS at https://www.scottphoto.co/bts.

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It was just a few hours before the rains came and flooded the Bonneville lakebed at Speed Week 2022 and I was photographing Lucky Burton’s beautiful #523 LSR. As I was photographing one single fluffy cloud separated from the rest and hovered over the car for just a few moments. I tapped the shutter and thanked the photo gods for their blessing.
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Full story at Hot Rod Magazine online at https://www.motortrend.com/features/land-speed-racing-1931-ford-coupe/
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Not AI. Not Photoshop. Not fantasy.

Real life. If you so choose.

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