Scott Amling is a professional landscape photographer who travels throughout North America, Europe and Asia. His photographs capture the unique and obscured subjects and experiences from normal encounters that often go unnoticed. He is inspired by discovering new locations and experiencing the landscape of structures and other natural phenomena (such as seaweed beds ready for harvest at low tide in Japan). Having studied Architecture in college contributes to his ability to bring innovative perspectives and vantage points to his work.

Gradually moving from film and a large format camera to digital, Scott began to study and learn new techniques with premier landscape photographers, including Michael Levin. Over the last several years, he has created his own identifiable style of minimalist images with alluring and calming visuals.

He has won numerous awards including First Place for the "Seawall" at the 53rd Annual Newport Beach Art Exhibition, Civic Center, 2017 (professionally juried). In 2017, he won four Honorable Mentions from the International Photography Awards for his photographs of landscapes and nature and four additional Honorable Mentions in 2018. Throughout 2018, his work was displayed in TAG Gallery in Los Angeles, at Dab Art Gallery/H + Studio Gallery and a solo exhibition at The John Wayne Airport in Orange County, CA. In 2019, one of his images, “Pile of Tetrapods”, was selected for the “Off the Clock” exhibition, sponsored by the American Photographic Artists in Los Angeles, CA (APA-LA). The exhibition includes 100 selections out of 1,300 submissions and curated by W.M. Hunt and on display at the Santa Monica Art Studios through May 11, 2019.

Over New Year in 2020, he traveled to the northern island of Hokkaido in Japan on his fourth trip to the region. He continues to travel the world looking for more mysterious and captivating locations to document.

Awards

2019

Bronze Award, Fine Art, Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFAs), 2019 - "Yoichi Rocks"

Honorable Mention, Fine Art, Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFAs), 2019 - "Seaweed Beds”

Honorable Mention, Fine Art, International Photography Awards (IPAs), 2019 - "Three Graces"

Honorable Mention, Fine Art, International Photography Awards (IPAs), 2019 - "Dome Home”

Honorable Mention, Fine Art, International Photography Awards (IPAs), 2019 - "Molokai Fish Shack"

Honorable Mention, Fine Art, International Photography Awards (IPAs), 2019 - "Tetrapod Clone Wars”

Honorable Mention, Fine Art, International Photography Awards (IPAs), 2019 - "Beach Breaks, Study III"

Honorable Mention, Drone Aerial, International Photography Awards (IPAs), 2019 - "River Runs Through It”

Honorable Mention, Long Exposure, Minimalist Awards, 2019 - "Pile of Tetrapods"

Honorable Mention, Fine Art, Minimalist Awards, 2019 - "Dome Home”

2018

Honorable Mention, Landscapes, International Photography Awards (IPAs), 2018 - "Order and Perspective"

Honorable Mention, Landscapes, International Photography Awards (IPAs), 2018 - "Beach Breaks, Study II”

Honorable Mention, Architecture-Historic, International Photography Awards (IPAs), 2018 - "Still Standing"

Honorable Mention, Landscapes, International Photography Awards (IPAs), 2018 - "Pile of Tetrapods"

Honorable Mention, Single-Shot: Harmony, Professional, International Photography Awards (IPAs), 2018 - "Seawall at Sunrise"

2017

First Place, Photography, Newport Beach Art Exhibition, 53rd Annual, 2017 - "Seawall at Sunrise"

Honorable Mention, Landscapes, International Photography Awards (IPAs), 2017 - "Bad Day in 1906"

Honorable Mention, Landscapes, International Photography Awards (IPAs), 2017 - "Seaweed Beds"

Honorable Mention, Nature-Trees, International Photography Awards (IPAs), 2017 - "Mature Trees"

Honorable Mention, Landscapes, International Photography Awards (IPAs), 2017 - "Seawall at Sunrise"

First Place, Pacific Life Photo Contest - "The Post"

Publications

Insider, Online Magazine, November, 2019; Interviewed and used photos for article on the Maunsell Sea Forts

LE Mag, Magazine, England, April, 2019; Front Cover with image of Dome Home

“Off the Clock”, Exhibition Book, 2019, APA-LA, Los Angeles; Page 47 with image of Pile of Tetrapods

Affiliations

American Photographic Artists (APA-LA); Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP); Los Angeles, California

California Center for Photographic Art (CCPA); Carmel, California