Supercars
Ask the people who know me and they'll tell you I'm a scene guy. I love the car scene. The lifestyle, culture, people and everything else that the car scene provides is what got me into automotive photography, not just the cars themselves. So given that, I spontaneously decided to venture out to the east coast for Import Alliance 2011 summer meet after hearing just how big the turn out would be. All I can say is, I was very pleasantly surprised and shocked at what the east coast had to offer. Read More
Jul 21, 2011
Photography By: Cristian Loza, Matthew Jones, Andy Carter, Chad Lunn, Chris Sempek, Kevin Spainer, Michael Russo
Words By: Cristian Loza
Import Alliance 2011 Summer Meet (Nashville Super Speedway)
Since 2006 car enthusiasts from all over have traveled to Nashville, Tennessee for what has now become the largest all import meet in the entire country. It seems like just yesterday that I attended my first Import Alliance in 2007 and I was instantly hooked! Nothing beats being around people who share the same passion as you do and tons of quality cars all around you for an entire weekend. I noticed a lot more variety in cars this year and it made for a more amazing experience. We will let the pictures do the talking. A big thank you goes out Don, Omari & the entire Import Alliance staff for letting us be a part of this amazing event they have created. Thanks for the good memories and we will defiantly be back next year! Enjoy everyone. Read More
It’s the middle of winter right now in Australia, but that will never stop enthusiasts from getting together. Canibeat affiliate photographer Jordan Donnelly has returned home from his quick tour of the land down under, and these shots came from a weekend meet in his last few days in Sydney. Local parts supplier, JDM Yard, hosted the event with a little help from JDM Style Tuning and THE-LOWDOWN.com. Despite the cold temperature and bitter wind, the sun was shining and a huge crowd of quality cars turned up.
Jun 30, 2011
Random Beat: Heritage Blue & Epic Orange
Photography by Orlando Echeverria for Canibeat.com
Some of you might remember our friend Orlando's last rig shot of Zane Miller's 2.5RS, well last week he dusted off his rig and went back to Miller MotorSports Track in Tooele, UT to shoot the Miller's GT40! Of course this isn't just any old GT40, it happens to be the Heritage livery edition which commemorates Ford's 1968 and 1969 in the the JW Automotive/American Gulf Oil-sponsored Le Mans-winning Ford GT racer!
As a photographer myself and someone who enjoys doing rig work, I always enjoy Orlando's rig shots and this has to be one of my new favorites! Check out his site where you can find some behind the scenes shots and more of his amazing work!
Jun 28, 2011
A Look Back: Wekfest Los Angeles (Part 1)
Photography & Words by John Zhang for Canibeat.com
Everyone would agree that it's always better late than never right? Yes, that's right, we did attend Wekfest Los Angeles in Long Beach, however, due to time constraints and scheduling, all the photographers that attended were not able to get their coverage out until now. This will be part one of what's to come in the near future. Anyway, just like Wekfest San Francisco this year, the turn out was huge and the quality of cars was amazing. So enough with the text, we'll let the photos do the talking.
Jun 24, 2011
Random Pic(k): Jeffery Chin Photography
Photography by Jeffery Chin Canibeat started with just a few friends who shared a passion for cars and quality photography. Just like many of you, we spent our free time surfing forums and checking out our favorite photographers on Flickr. Although we have grown away from our days of posting random finds and moved more towards exclusive features from our great team of exclusive Canibeat photographers, we will always have a place to showcase photos and videos from other up and coming photographers and videographers! With that said it has been a while since I have posted one of my "Random Pic(k)'s" so in the middle of working on some new features I wanted to showcase some work from Jeffrey Chin, a talented young photographer from Alberta, Canada.
Jun 16, 2011
HRE Wheels Open House 2011
Photography & Words by John Zhang for Canibeat.com
I was generously invited a few weeks ago to the HRE Wheels Open House event. Shooting higher end cars is a rare occurrence for me so I took it as a great opportunity to shoot some nicely modified cars. The turn out was great and the quality of cars was even better. The front, side, and back lots of HRE headquarters were filled with amazing automobile machinery including the inside of the warehouse. Talk about a turnout, I was just amazed throughout the day!
Photo by Julian Morales
What we have here is a 1997 Lamborghini Diablo twin turbo tuned by SP Engineering that's making 655hp. It's sporting a fresh set of Work Equips custom built from Japan in 18x8.5 (front) and 19X13 (rear). The photoshoot setup was in house at SP Engineering using a light painting method with an AB B800 modeling light on and barebulb and vagabondII for equitment. Enjoy guys.
May 22, 2011
Toyotafest 2011 (Long Beach, CA)
Photography & Words by Noel Barnum for canibeat.com
Last week was the 16th Annual All Toyotafest held once again near the Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA. Year after year Toyotafest has never failed to impress its car enthusiasts with not only the quantity of the cars that show up to the event, but the quality of those cars as well. One thing I did notice that was different from the last couple of years was that the amount of old school Toyotas were missing, but with the absence the xB crew sure did fill up their portion of the show. I didn't get to shoot that much during the show since every time I wanted to take a shot someone would end up getting in the shot and I didn't want to focus on their butt, haha. But here are the pics….ENJOY!
May 18, 2011
Bimmerfest 2011
Photography & Words by John Zhang for Canibeat.com
For those of you who don't know, Bimmerfest might be the world's largest gathering of BMW's outside of Germany. Similar to last year, I had the opportunity to attend Bimmerfest 2011 at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California. I the heard attendance levels of the cars was double of last year. I doubt there were 6000 cars like some told me, but it was well past 1000 for sure. It was basically a treasure trove of BMW's for me to shoot, so I'm just going to let the photos do the talking in this one. Be sure to check out the photo gallery after this post since it would be impossible for me post close to 300 photos up on a post. Enjoy!