Larry Smith has been active in motion picture and still photography for over 40 years. He won his first of four Emmy Awards for his filming of the Cuban Revolution in 1958-1959 for CBS News' Documentary Productions Unit. In 1960 he worked with ABC News in Viet Nam & Japan and was the Director of Photography on many productions, including "Hiroshima: Then and Now," produced for the 20th anniversary of the dropping of the atom bomb; and "Reflections on Viet Nam," with the late Frank Reynolds, which earned him his second Emmy Award. While acting as Director of Photography with "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" he won his third and fourth Emmy Awards.

His love of 35mm still photography finally won out over motion pictures, and in 1980 he devoted all of his time to corporate photography. Since most of his clients were in the transportation business, it was only natural that he soon developed a very large inventory of 35mm transportation stock color slides. This collection has grown to over 600,000 original, 35mm color slides of all modes of transportation, both civilian as well as military. This has made Trans Pixs Worldwide one of the largest transportation stock photo houses in the world.

Although most of his clients are civilian companies, his work with the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and the Air Force has provided him numerous unique opportunities to photography the latest in weapons technology. He has flown in some of the Air Force's newest jets. He has visited the depths of the ocean in the Navy's newest Trident-class ballistic missile submarines and has been catapulted off the deck of numerous aircraft carriers in modern naval jet aircraft. Larry was given unprecedented freedom in photographing these unique vessels and jets.