Scott Adams Photography and Design

Welcome to my web site. I offer the some of the best options in affordable photography and graphic, and web design. I believe that great photography comes from real moments captured as they were. Staging photos is not my style. I believe in letting life happen and observing it through the lens. My experience as a photojournalist has helped me to be in any situation and get creative shots. Nature and life will put on the show for you. I have great respect for other photographers who excel in the art of posing subjects and artfully creating the moment. However it is just not my style of shooting. I believe that God is the perfect artist and we as well as nature are his canvas. i love to see the word for what it is and then bring the beauty of it out for others to enjoy.

I also believe in providing and producing quality graphic design at an affordable price. I target my work at small businesses that are in need of a web site, images for their marketing, or any other design or image needs. I have had the privilege of working on more than 200 web sites and design projects across the nation.

My background in this field stems from my youth. I spend a great deal of time as a kid in class drawing pictures of hot rods and monster trucks. As I got older, I moved towards realism and technical drawing then art per say. I had always been interested in photography and my dad had an old camera laying around that always interested me. I never really had the thought to pick up a camera until after I graduated high school.

Somewhere not too many years after high school I picked up an old camera A1 and started shooting. I basically taught myself how to use the camera. I had some direction but most was trial and error and studying it out on my own. I eventually upgraded the camera to a entry level Canon EOS Rebel and the grew from there. I had some nice shots and was starting to have a firm grasp on how to take photos. I applied for a job at the Fresno Bee Neighbors Newspaper that I was fortunate enough to get. I quickly learned I knew nothing about photography and was forced to learn. Sort of that sink or swim mentality. I quickly learned and applied what I knew about composition from my art classes, contrast, color, light, etc., and quickly stepped into the roll of full time head staff photographer for two weekly papers shooting an average of 3-4 assignments a day for two papers and driving all over the local area and mountains including the mountains area.

Working in photoshop as often as I did with photoshop with my photos, I was able begin learning the tools of photoshop and started learning design. Years after landing the job with the paper, I was laid off and since then I have been involved with working for several opportinities that have allowed me to work on over 200 design projects and shot photos for over 50 of some of the biggest companies in the agriculture industry here in the California Central Valley.

I am currently living in Fresno with my wife and two girls and working very hard to make my skills better and provide more services on the Internet for my own business as well as others. When I am not working I am playing with my family. I love the Monterey / Carmel Coast areas as well as the Lake Tahoe area. I snowboard every chance I get and still manage to stay active enough that in my mind I will never be old.

I play hard, work hard, and be live that life has yet to show me the best years of my life.