In order to produce amazing photographic imagery, you physically have to be in front of something that is amazing in itself. Whether it be the Taj Mahal during sunrise, or a majestic creature like the elusive house cat – the more interesting the subject, the better the imagery. I guess what I am trying to say is, I have […]

Some of you long-time Speedhunters fans have probably been wondering, ‘What’s gotten into Larry?’ Or more precisely, ‘What’s up with all the off-road coverage recently?’ Well, the short answer is that I’ve been bitten by the off-road bug. But of course, it’s a bit more complex than that… I actually started getting into off-road racing a few years […]

Chapter One: Beginnings If you guys follow us on Instagram, you’ve probably seen that I recently picked up a 6-speed manual Toyota FJ Cruiser as a project car. While it’s a fun rig to go camping and over-landing in, that’s not my intention for the truck. I am building a media chase vehicle that will allow me to follow and […]

Chapter One: A Different Type Of Car Show When I first started shooting car shows, the people who attended would pay $25 to have a photo taken with their arms around a scantily clad import model. I would also have to wear ear protection because of how loud some of the stereos were. What I just explained could have […]

  Chapter One: Gridlife The shirtless man stood in the middle of the roadway and yelled, “THOU SHALL NOT PASS… unless you do a burnout.” I was instantly reminded of Gandalf from the Lord of the Rings, but instead of holding a wooden staff with a magical crystal in the end, this guy was waving around a […]

I see Rhys Millen every couple weeks, so when I approached him after qualifying at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, the first thing he said to me was how full and thick my afro was coming in. Yes, I have poofy hair, and I was glad he opened our conversation with a jab at […]

Pikes Peak is such a visual place, so I wanted to do something different with my ‘Art Of’ story this year. We’ve already covered Rhys Millen’s quest to get into the eight-minute club, but for today’s post I figured it would be a good idea to let the photos tell their own story, with a few captions added here and […]

Chapter One: Battle At The Brickyard I find it interesting, that in some way, shape or form, motorsport can be found in pretty much every country out there. And when you’re taking about racing leagues for kids, they’ve now become comparable to football or basketball as youth sports. In different countries there are different forms of racing available to youngsters. Europe has oval […]

Chapter One: LA Car Culture In recent years, I’ve been seeing quite a bit more car culture tourism. I get emails on a weekly basis asking about the places and shops that I visit in my Speedhunting travels, and I know Dino has it pretty bad too since he lives in Japan and many people from […]

Chapter One: One Can Only Dream In an ideal world, manufacturers would re-release certain enthusiast cars in an updated version. It’s happened before; Nissan rebuilt a few 240Zs from the ground up, and Toyota brought back the FJ70 series for the Japanese domestic market. Just like you can do in video games, I imagine being able to buy a brand new […]

Given the number of oddball car features and events that I’ve shot, I thought I had seen it all. I was wrong. Toyo Tires had the bright idea of modifying a 1959 Ferret – an armored scout vehicle – to fit its off-road tires, and then got the one and only BJ ‘Ballistic’ Baldwin to drive it in a video shoot. I […]

It was like any other lazy afternoon at my home in Los Angeles after returning from an overseas trip. I was just beginning to recover from all the jet-setting when I received a call from a friend telling me that he had a 2017 Lexus LC 500 for the afternoon and asking if I wanted to take a few […]

Chapter One: Raw Industrial Playground Given it amassed 10 million views in the space of a week, I’m sure you guys have watched Ken Block’s latest Gymkhana series video by now, and that means it’s time for me to take you behind the scenes. This is Gymkhana Nine: Raw Industrial Playground. The tricks that Ken pulled off this time around really […]

Chapter One: Latvia RX There is nothing more fun for me than shooting motorsports. While car features are cool, there are so many more variables that are out of my control when I’m at an event and the action is unfolding live in front of my camera. What you guys may not realize is that I shoot […]

Chapter One: Dealership Drift A drifting Lamborghini… I know what you guys are thinking, ‘We’ve seen it all before.’ To a point that would be true, because Daigo Saito did go nuts drifting an Murcielago. I know this all too well because I was there, on the ground, during filming of Battle Drift with Vaughn Gittin Jr. […]

Chapter One: Furious Outlaws If you guys have not already seen or heard about it, Sung Kang and Magnus Walker released a film during SEMA 2016. For Furious Outlaws, they swapped their favorite cars and drove the absolute piss out of them together on the canyon roads surrounding Los Angeles. The guys invited me to come while they […]

I’ve shot top fuel and nitro funny cars before, but up until very recently it had been a while since I’d experienced the eardrum-shattering and heart-thumping power of a 10,000hp drag car. I figured it would be a good idea to check out the final round of the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series. After all, Auto Club […]

Chapter One: The 49th Baja 1000 As a Speedhunter, life is pretty much an endless number of bucket list motoring events being ticked off, new builds and breakthrough moments in car culture. As I always say, there are infinite things we can photograph and present, but within those are a few events that really stand above the rest. For […]

The Gumball 3000 is one of those events that you hear about as a car enthusiast, but something only few can actually take part in given its prohibitively expensive entry fee. For 2017, a spot in the rally was set at around US$45,500 per car, and that’s before all the other associated costs that come with […]

Covering all aspects of car culture for Speedhunters means shooting off-road action as much as I shoot on-road stuff. If you follow the site religiously, then it will come as no surprise to you that over the past few years I’ve been diving deeper and deeper into off-the-beaten-path car culture. The last time I hung out […]

A few years back, I had the pleasure of being part of the dream team that was Speedhunters at Gatebil. We had all of our drift athletes at one track, as well as most of our photographers, minus Dino of course since we always forget about him. There was nothing planned out really, but we watched magic […]

Being a Speedhunter or an automotive journalist in general really is an automotive enthusiast’s dream job. While it’s sometimes hard to convey just how hard the work really is, I can honestly say that I sacrifice a lot for this job. My personal life with friends and family suffers, as does my health; believe me when I say that it owns […]

Even before I started photographing professional racing I knew about Race Of Champions (ROC); the event was so ahead of its time in terms of media and putting out cool videos in pre-YouTube days. I can specifically remember watching one ROC back in 2006 and being amazed by the way the stadium had been transformed into a […]

Earlier this year, when I found myself in Miami, Florida, for the Race of Champions, I decided that I should take the opportunity to shoot a local car for a feature. I didn’t have anything lined up, but that changed quickly with a phone call to my buddy Magnus Walker, who was also in town. He told me […]

As a photographer and a Speedhunter, there are some special moments that have defined my career thus far. Along with shooting the Gymkhana series of short films, travelling down to Cuba to be on the set of Recoil 4 will be long remembered as a high point. It’s tough, because if there is nothing cool happening in front […]

How did I get to this point? This is a question that I get asked pretty often. The bad news is that there really is no easy explanation. I do remember, however, how much I struggled to break into the industry, especially at the SEMA Show. The first time I stepped foot on the show […]

Chapter One: Car Culture, The Cuban Way I’d always wanted to visit Cuba. For such a long time I was envious of photographers from outside of the United States who were given relatively free reign to shoot on the island, as they had the chance to capture this living time capsule. The street photography that came from the streets […]

Chapter One: Practice Makes Perfect In the eight years that I’ve been involved with Speedhunters, I’ve noticed the average reader becoming less interested in racing and more interested in car culture they can relate to themselves. I guess I’m stuck in my old ways; as much as I love travelling the world shooting street cars and the lifestyle that surrounds them, I […]

Chapter One: Becoming Official When I first stepped foot on Pikes Peak back in 2011, I never would have imagined in my wildest dreams that I would eventually become the official photographer for the historic hill climb. The conversation came up with Mitch Snow, the event’s Director of Promotions & Legacy, during the filming of Ken Block’s […]

Chapter One: Luftgekühlt It’s no secret that I am not big on car shows. If it’s not moving at a high rate of speed or producing massive amounts of tire smoke, I usually don’t want anything to do with it. But every now and then I make exceptions, and seeing as I am a big Porsche […]

Chapter One: Drive All Day I guess you could say that I’ve just been on a Speedhunters world tour. I jumped straight from Formula Drift New Jersey to Gridlife Midwest; joined the Hot Rod Power Tour and then hit up Pikes Peak; jetted over to the UK for the Goodwood Festival of Speed, and then onto Continental Europe for the Gumball 3000. The weekend past I was in Montreal for Formula […]

Chapter One: Shakedown I’ve heard it so many times, and if you’re into car culture chances are you’ve heard it to. I’m talking about excuses: “My car is not ready for the track,” or the ever-so-worthless “I need to upgrade my [insert part name/s here] before I go to the track.” If you’re anything like me, there will always […]

Chapter One: Battle Drift 2 As you guys know, my job as an automotive photographer sees me experience different facets of car culture all over the world, but out of everything I shoot, nothing is more stressful than being on the set of a high-value video production. More often than not, I am the only person […]

Chapter One: Goodwood FOS The Goodwood Festival of Speed is one of those events that I first heard about as a kid. Every year I’d see all the awesome photos and videos from the event, and it would make me insanely jealous. The cars, the culture, and of course the people – attending the Festival of Speed has been on […]

Chapter One: Hot Wheels I’ve been playing with Hot Wheels diecasts all my life. Ever since I can remember, I raced them around till the paint was completely chipped off. Now as a Speedhunter, my relationship with these little toy cars has changed quite a lot. My visit to Hot Wheels actually started a few years back when I featured a […]

On a daily basis I receive emails from individuals and companies pitching me all kinds of ideas for car shoots. Some are crazy and others are just downright weird. A little while back I opened one that caught my eye: an opportunity to shoot the new Ford GT in the Austrian Alps. The catch? They […]

I was recently asked what my favorite aspect of car culture to shoot is. My answer may or may not surprise you, but there is no question that grassroots team stuff is right at the top of the list. No matter where I travel in the world, I’m always in search of the local car clubs and meets. […]

When you are the pioneer of viral car videos, there’s always the challenge of going bigger and better with each new release. It’s something that Ken Block strives to do every time he drives for the cameras. I’ve been on quite a few of Ken’s <em>Gymkhana</em> shoots over the years, and there always seems to be at least one butt-puckering moment. None of them have […]