Born and raised in Huntington, West Virginia afforded many opportunities to witness both the triumph and tragedy in life and sports. Around bedtime when Scott was within a week of his sixth birthday on November 14, 1970, Scott and his family were startled by sounds of the windows rattling in their 1930s home followed by the sound of sirens that went on for hours. The next morning at Altizer Elementary, Scott remembers his mother and several other teachers gathered around his favorite new gym teacher Leigh Kautz, who still showed up for work in spite of having just lost her father in the crash of the Thundering Herds Football team plane at Tri-State Airport the night before. The tragedy and rebuilding of a community in the Marshall University Football team would shape both an awe of athletic achievement through adversity and an awe of the mysteries of aviation for years to come.
The son of the late Jack Corron, a school principal for forty years in West Virginia and Texas, Scott's development of appreciation for athletic achievement began as a very young boy while attending numerous college and high school athletic contests with his father both before and after the crash. From the very first Marshall Memorial Invitational to the end zone seating at Fairfield Stadium a young child and young man was captivated by the action. In the old Field House, Scott sat a few feet from the court on the old bleachers at Marshall University basketball games watching Mike D'Antoni, then a star with the Thundering Herd now the head coach for the New York Nicks.
College took Scott to a classical education in design from Rice University in the School of Architecture where he graduated in 1988 with a Bachelor's degree in Architectural Studies while a NCAA Div I cheerleader for the athletic department. An avid cyclist, Scott's fascination with sports photography was further sparked when he was photographed biking alongside Lance Armstrong and Miguel Indurain, by Mike Gladu, a familiar face from the sidelines back at Rice in the mid 1980s. Stunned by the fact that Mike could ride the back of a motorcycle and simultaneously capture the reading on Scott's digital watch while zipping along next to Armstrong at over 25mph, Scott had to learn just how Mike did it. The passion continues.
Scott photographs sports action and editorial portraiture, military aviation, news, architecture, landscape, and medical technology. Having volunteered for several hundred hours in a level one trauma center and having excelled at the sale of diagnostic cardiolgoy equipment and treatment devices for eight years, Scott has a highly developed awareness of the technological, ethical, and human relationships in the medical arena.
A senior member of Sportshooter.com, Scott has also attended educational workshops in Los Angeles, California at the Sportsshooter Luau, the Southwestern Photojournalism Conference in Fort Worth, and "Intense Moments, Photographing Sports" with Peter Read Miller in Denver, Colorado.
CLIENTS:
The United States Army
The United States Air Force, Texas Air National Guard
Runner's World
Golf Digest/Golf World
Smart Business Houston Magazine
American Profile Magazine
Ferrari / Maserati of Houston, Risi Competizione Racing Team
Active Imagination, Sports and Health Care Marketing
Rice University Football
Rice University Men's and Women's Cross Country
Rice University Women's Soccor
Rice University Men's Basketball
Inside Texas Running Magazine
Runner Triathlete News
Polo Player Edition
Fiesta/Yellow Cab
The River Oaks Grill
Bistro Moderne
The Houston Parkinson's Foundation
Flamenco del Espadin Dance Company
The Houston Polo Club, Houston's Oldest Sporting Franchise
CardioDynamics, Inc., San Diego, California
