Mead began his photographic career at the age of 16, capturing cars, plants, landscapes, and wildlife on film, often donating his images to local clubs and charities. After studying photography at the California Polytechnic University under the tutelage of noted commercial photographer, Wayne Rowe , he spent several years as an automotive photographer and journalist for Edmunds.com and Motor Trend Magazine before switching his focus to landscape and nature photography in 2003. Apprenticing with renowned landscape photographer and conservationalist, Robert Glenn Ketchum, he decided to concentrate his creative energy toward his true love - the islands of Hawaii - where his family has noho kai (lived by the sea) for part of every year since 1975.

A virtuoso at the use and manipulation of light, Mead carefully selects his subjects and locations to optimize the ever-changing luminosity and atmospheric conditions the Islands present. Tempered by patience and uncanny timing, his images depict an intense variation of light, fluidity and motion, capturing the pure essence and mana of Hawai'i through the lens.

A multiple award-winning artist, Mead's style is particularly suited for the four forms of media on which his images are printed: a metallic-coated photographic paper, bamboo paper, sugar cane paper and rag canvas. The first allows his images to react to light, enabling the owner to vary the mood depending on the intensity of ambient light; the bamboo and sugar cane, both renewable resources with its fibrous texture and softness, lends itself to delicate tonal transitions, endearing the essence of the Islands; and the canvas taking photography to a painterly level without digital augmentation.

No matter the media, through his images, Scott strives to preserve Hawaii 's diverse and unspoiled landscape, and to share this Aloha with you.