Scott Shellabarger
Photographer Scott Shellabarger has spent much of his 40 years traveling the world and the country taking pictures of the fun, the unique, the historical, and the natural. Trained in Journalism, Environmental Science, and Technical & Scientific Communications, Scott worked as a graphic designer and marketing editor & writer for newspapers, magazines, book publishers, printers, government agencies, and conservation organizations. His skills in these trades naturally lent themselves to Scott's first love, the outdoors. Environmental education through the promotion of nature in writing, pho- tography, and even public speaking led Scott to work for The Nature Conservancy of Colorado, The National Park Service (Gulf Islands National Seashore, MS), the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, and locally, OWATCH (helping Ohio children learn environmental sciences).
After deciding to share his vision of nature through his photographic eye, Scott traveled across the country on a quest to visit every major National Park. This journey took Scott on a 45,000-mile, three-year odyssey that included driving the outline of the United States, driving from Key West to Maine, driving from Las Vegas to Cape Cod, driving the outline of the state of Florida, and driving from Ohio to Colorado & Arizona eight times. These travels included visits and pictures of nearly 100 National Parks, Monuments, Forests, Lake & Seashores, Recreation Areas, Battlefields, and the like. Scott "discovered" roadside attractions like state parks, zoos, waterfalls, caves, ghost towns, museums, and other fun things including: City of Rocks (Kansas & New Mexico) and Rock City (Tennessee), the Million Dollar Highway (Colorado), the Coral Castle (Florida), the Cadillac Ranch (Texas), Niagara Falls (New York & Canada), 1880 Town & The Corn Palace (South Dakota), the Crayola Factory (Pennsylvania), the Great Platte River Road Archway Monument (commemorating the Oregon Trailıs route through Nebraska), the Day Butterfly Center at Callaway Gardens (Georgia), Meteor Crater (Arizona), covered bridges (Indiana), and many others both famous and little known.
Photographing every aspect of his travels, Scott recorded more than 15,000 digital images on his Nikon CoolPix 880. A resolution of 3.4 megapixels is managed in Adobe PhotoShop on a Mac Powerbook G3 to render most pictures at a size of 8x10 and a DPI of 180 or more. Edits may be made to remove distracting elements such as power lines, birds or people while leaving the essence of the photograph unchanged. The pictures are then printed on photographic (and plain) papers on either an Epson Stylus Photo 925 or a Lexmark Z33. Mats are pre-cut, and the frames are standard size and make. Scottıs writing, designs, and photography have been published in the following: Palm Beach Daily News, The Palm Beach Post, The Army Times, Florida Expressways newsletter, The Nature Conservancy publications, Human Rights Campaign publication, AAA- Ohio magazine, Roanoke Times & World News newspaper, Venice Community Magazine, Florida Southern College publications, Roanoker magazine, and on the web. He is a member of the Westbridge Camera Club, and his digital nature photographs now in display at Gallery 202, Partners in Art, Inc. co-op.
Scott supports these conservation organizations: The Union of Concerned Scientists, The Trust for Public Land, The Nature Conservancy, Sierra Club, Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund, and the National Wildlife Federation.
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