As one of the advertising world's leading automobile photographers, with clients that include Jaguar, Porsche, Cadillac, Mercedes, Infiniti, Acura, Honda, Toyota and Goodyear, Rick Graves is an authority in capturing the essence of high-energy action photography.

Graves graduated from the prestigious Art Center College of Design at the top of his class in 1984. With a passion for racing and all things mechanical, Graves began creating his unique, distinctive style and built an impressive portfolio while working for editorial clients like Motor Trend, Road and Track, Racer, and Sports Car International.

As a natural progression, Rick Graves has turned his passion for action photography to film and video. Working with Trans Am legend and TV personality Tommy Kendall, Graves shot and directed an amazing video featuring the Subaru STi at Laguna Seca Raceway. Additionally, he shot, directed and supervised the editorial content for the full product line up video for Subaru. Using tiny high quality video cameras and unique point of view camera rigs, Graves created a dramatic video featuring Kelly Collins and Kris Wilson racing Skip Barber's Formula Race cars at Laguna Seca.

Graves is still inventing new ways to capture images of speed. He recently developed a unique camera system, giving him the ability to capture images in motion so extraordinary that AutoWeek and Wired magazine have written articles featuring this new work. Graves' distinctive DistaCam captures not a series of frames, but one continuous image on a single roll of film. To create these huge single-frame photographic images, the camera uses a highly technical motor - the same kind found in the robotics industry - to move the film through the camera at a speed relative to that of the subject as it moves through the frame.

The DistaCam marks an inventive triumph in Graves' continual quest to exploit the limits of traditional action photography. "I guess it goes back to my basic desire to push the envelope of conventional thinking," he says. "As long as I can remember I've been coming up with exciting new ways to capture images in motion."