So lately, I’ve been feeling a little down. Actually everyone has been depressed it seems, and is having relationship problems. The thing is, they all come to me and add that to my workload, my own feelings, and it all gets pretty stressful. I’ve always gone driving somewhere when I needed alone time, but it feels as if I’ve gone everywhere already. I’ve recently been walking to think things through. It gives me time alone and allows me to get in my exercise for the day.

But there’s a spot near where I live that I can go to and feel like I’m on top of the city. You can literally see the whole La Crescenta from there…

(Shitty pics, but whatever.)

So I decided to go to the beach late last week. It was sunny out and I could’ve used a tan. I was originally going to go to Santa Monica alone, but decided to call up Nate, and we went down to Newport Beach to visit Kananii and Matt. When we got there, it was coldish and overcast!

But… regardless, it was fun hanging out with them. And besides, we saw 2 Lamborghini Gallardos and a Ferrari. What more can one ask for?

Went up the crest to do a shoot with Nate…

I didn’t get the white balance right and I think I made the pictures too sharp during PP… oh well… I’m still learning.

A couple weeks ago, I drove up to the Virginia Lakes Pack Outfit to visit Jazmin, where she stays and works for the summer. I figured since it was unlikely that the whitecave roadtrip would happen, this would take it’s place. I drove up alone since nobody else had money to come with me, and it was probably one of the greatest weekends of my life. It made me realize how much I actually did enjoy traveling - I’ve just always gone places with the family where I had no say in where we went or what we did.

I drove my 2001 Honda Civic up and it made it each way on one tank of gas. Had an unexpected offroad expedition that beat the living crap out of the car and even got a speeding ticket on the way up for going 82 in a 65. The car was a warrior!

Here is sort of a photo blog of the trip. It was the first time using my new 24-60 f/2.8 lens and I forgot to clean the camera sensor so there are some spots on the photos. The pictures are way out of chronological order because I edited them in batches. In fact, I still have many photos left to go through!

Starting off, before I filled up.

Bridgeport Inn, the place we stayed the first night. Had excellent spaghetti there for dinner, and I booked the last room the week before.

And the rest of the time with jazzy…

This was the last photo shoot of my S2000. I totaled it a few minutes later…

AERO DESIGNS is a project that I have been working on for a few months now…

Work done: Web design, CMS/Cart integration, Data entry