Scott is a lifetime Californian who currently resides in the East San Francisco Bay city of Martinez with his four children and two cats.​ Scott's interest in photography began in 1991 when he studied photography at El Camino College in Torrance, CA. There, he studied black and white photography and learned how to develop film, and make his own prints. Throughout his education, and after earning his BA in Mass Communications, his love for photography never waned. In fact, it only became stronger and he began to dabble in video and cinematography as well. One of Scott's favorite photographer's quotes is from Ansel Adams: "You don't take a photograph, you make it." Scott says, "In this day and age, when everyone carries a smartphone/camera in their pocket and makes photographs and videos of everything we do — and while we (myself included) are making whimsy photographs of our food — it's comforting to know that we are still also making incredible works of art with our cameras."