Scott Allen Shaver

Scott Allen Shaver is a manager, a civil engineer and a fine art photographer.

Personal life
Born in Sylmar, California and educated in Sylmar public schools through Sylmar High School until he moved with his parents to Visalia, California, where he graduated from Mt. Whitney High School. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering, and a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering and a Master of Business Administration with Distinction, at California State University, Fresno. He married, raised two daughters, and is now divorced.

Photographer
He is primarily a fine art photographer, and has provided photographs for insurance, construction, architectural and law firms. He has been a wedding photographer and a developer of portfolios for models. He has developed and taught numerous workshops.

He developed his photography skills from his father, learned about style and lighting from a book by Yousuf Karsh, and was mentored by the photography teacher Jack White. He studied landscape photography with John Sexton, Ansel Adams' assistant. He and Lucien Clergue conducted a workshop in Death Valley, California.

His three major exhibitions are:


 * Fresno Portraits exhibited twenty-seven portraits of more than fifty influential citizens of Fresno, California.
 * Faces of Hanford exhibited forty portraits of civic and business leaders who were important to the town of Hanford, California. 
 * Portraits of Tulare exhibited thirty-eight portraits of community leaders in Tulare, California.

Other themes in Scott's work include landscapes, figure work, fashion, and details of found objects. Scott produces much of his work in large format black and white images, and in medium format color and black and white images. Throughout his work, Scott aims for simplicity and boldness of image, purity of technical means, and brightness of colors when they are used

Graphic Artist
He has studied art formally in community college classes. He independently experiments in painting, sketching, printmaking and nonrepresentational modern art. He has exhibited his work in community college and work-related contexts.

He and his daughters produced their family exhibition, Familial Strokes.

Exhibitions 1988-2004
He has participated in more than 130 Exhibitions. One of his photographs, Tree and Sunset, was accepted as a mural on State Route 99 in Fresno.