Scott The Photographer

Grand Prize for Ultimate Creativity!

sbell — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:01:50 +0000

Digital Photo Pro Magazine spread

Digital Photo Pro magazine has judged my “Toys Will Be Toys” image to be the Grand Prize winner in the 2nd Annual Ultimate Creativity contest. It is featured in their Sept/Oct issue.

Some love for GObama!

sbell — Thu, 13 May 2010 19:54:55 +0000

Fort Dearborn - Chicago Photo Forum International Photography Competition 2010 Awards

CHICAGO, IL - USA May 12th 2010 - Advertising Photographer Scott Bell of Mount Prospect, Illinois received an award of excellence at the Fort Dearborn- Chicago Photo Forum International Photography Competition 2010.

Nearly 700 photographers from 16 countries participated in the International Photography Competition 2010 hosted by Fort Dearborn - Chicago Photo Forum. The top 30 images were selected by esteemed professionals in the photography industry - Michael Bilbrey, art buyer from world-renowned advertising agency Leo Burnett, Bill Hurter, editor of Rangefinder and AfterCapture photography magazines and David Leigh, owner of Chicago art gallery, Morpho Gallery. The judges reviewed the submitted images online during a three week voting period before making their final selections.

Awards were presented in five categories - people, places, nature, still-life and alteration of reality. The thirty winners come from Argentina, Australia, Canada, Netherlands and 13 states in the U.S.

Awards will be presented at the print exhibit’s opening reception on June 4, 2010 at Morpho Gallery in Chicago

See the winners online at: www.chicagophotoforum.org

I’ll be the judge of that!

sbell — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:09:25 +0000

The Rochester Advertising Federation selected me to be one of their judges for the 2010 Addy Awards.

I spent a weekend with 5 other Creatives from the Chicago advertising community pouring over about 400 entries in print, broadcast, web and radio. Very creative work and it was a real pleasure seeing the quality of work that is being produced from that region.

Congrats to all the winners.
(If you didn’t win, don’t blame me, it was the other guys!)

Toys Will Be Toys

sbell — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:00:42 +0000

This is a new addition to my “Girl In Danger” series. It’s a humorous take on how those macho toys behave when no one is looking. For those of you thinking “Texas Chain Saw Massacre” - the “boyz” have other things on their mind. They just have to get through those darn hard to open plastic boxes.

I thought it might be fun to show how the idea first started with my initial sketch. Thank God I don’t make my living drawing.

Happy Holidays

sbell — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:32:31 +0000

This year of bad economic news reminded me of past days when I had to make do with what I had. Christmas would come (as the Grinch would say)”… without packages boxes or bags”. Just a few cheap strings of lights and some nails to hang them on was all I had to brighten my apartment and make it feel festive. Those Christmas days of the past are just as fondly remembered as some of the more recent ones.

I created this image for my 2009 card in memory of a simpler time.

Bright and cheery Holiday wishes!

Living Magazine

sbell — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:19:52 +0000

Behind the scenes video by photographer Alexx Henry showing how technology might change the shape of magazines in the future using OLED (Organic Light Emitting Device) technology. Great insight by Alexx on how images might be being used in the next decade. Look at his blog Living Art Media for more.

Chicago at night

sbell — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:38:50 +0000

I hit some of the Chicago tourist spots for a few travel “destination” types of images. They can be viewed larger at my website.

Flashes Of Hope

sbell — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:22:46 +0000

Flashes of Hope is a non-profit organization dedicated to creating powerful, uplifting portraits of children fighting cancer and other life threatening illnesses. Recently I had the honor to be selected for a day of shooting at a local Chicago hospital.

To learn more about Flashes of Hope please visit their site at www.Flashesofhope.org

The PEN Story

sbell — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:23:30 +0000

Amazing stop motion animation that I found on YouTube:

This is the Olympus PEN Story in stop motion. It was made by shooting 60,000 pictures, developing 9,600 prints and shooting over 1,800 pictures again. No post production! Very Cool. Very Creative.

Visit the YouTube page here.

15 creepiest Ads of all time

sbell — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:21:19 +0000

Found this collection of ads at www.retrocomedy.com

“What do murder, pedophilia, suicide and a baby tiger have in common? They have all been used to sell stuff in these amazingly disturbing vintage ads!
These are real, untouched advertisements from the good old days. It doesn’t matter if it’s lovely ladies or adorable clowns, somehow these old-time ad wizards found ways to traumatize us while pedaling everyday products.

Enjoy them now, call your therapist later!”