He developed a love of photography as a child when his father gave him his first camera at the age of 11, and taught him how to use the family’s dark room to develop his own pictures. Scott majored in photography at RIT in Rochester, New York. He works at The Taunton Press where he shoots for all of their magazines and a number of books. These days, the majority of his work can be seen on the covers and pages of Fine Cooking magazine.