Ahhh Sunny California, how I miss you so much already. So I have decided to officially make California a mandatory once a year trip for myself, along with Nashville for Import Alliance of course. Last year when I visited the sunshine state, I met up with Paul (Blue Delsol) through the Honda-Tech.com forums and had an awesome time in the mountains. As soon as I found out I had the opportunity to head back this year, he was the first man I contacted!

So this entire California set is basically in chronological order if you start with the photo looking out onto the wing of the plane. The first couple shots are things like my view from the crown plaza hotel, the fancy looking wall/door number, palm trees, etc. Day 2 is where you see the photos beginning to take place in the mountains. Just like last year we ripped up all the way to 8000ft up the Glendhora Mountains, as well as this time we made a stop through the Azuzu Canyons which was equally amazing! Paul had gathered a good group of mixed individuals to shoot some photos with, and have a nice BBQ once we reached the top.

After the mountain shooting we headed back in town towards LA to find some spots to shoot some more individuals, as well as night shots.

The next day was my opportunity to just relax, and enjoy the high priced life of Newport Beach, California which is where I had moved hotels to after LA. Newport is absolutely gorgeous and there was just to much around me to shoot.

Day 3 was a fun one, I took a train out from Newport Beach to San Diego to meet up with my boy Jacob (Dark Grey TL) to once again, meet a new group of cars and start shooting. When I arrived in San Diego I was blown away by the clenliness of the city as I had never been there last year when I came to the West Coast. San Diego absolutely makes LA look like a dump, what a gorgeous down town area. I was picked up by the caravan by the train station, and we drove out to a Marina to begin shooting in front of what looked like potentially 1/2 million dollar yachts.

After about 5 hours of shooting in various places, we headed across the Coronado bridge to find somewhere to eat. Grabbed some epic pizzeria style pizza, and then just checked out the island a bit. The final shot in the set you see, if me looking across from Coronado shooting towards the San Diego downtown core.Afterwards we drove to Jacobs house that wasn’t far, and crashed there for the night. The next day, I trained back to Newport….

All in all this trip to California I would consider much more successful than last year. I got to see a lot more, shoot many different cars, experienced San Diego, and met some new people that I know I will be seeing in the future.

MASSIVE thanks to anyone who helped me out on the trip with drives, housing, whatever! Muchly appreciated See you soon California, see you soon.

P.S. There’s a TON of stuff still coming your way for the month of August and September, going to make it a busy end of season! I can’t believe I’m already saying that….”End” of season Keep your eyes peeled for updates guys! Feel free to leave a comment, let me know what you think about the site thus far!