On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.
From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.
Let’s give a warm welcome to a first-time submitter this morning! ~WaterGirl
Kody Kastel
Here are some California photos from as far down as Laguna Beach all the way up to San Fransisco, and everywhere in between!
Coastline arial view of Laguna beach.
Coastline shot of Big Sur.
Golden Gate Bridge from the water.
Long exposure shot of traffic going around the mountains in Malibu from Deer Creek Road.
This photo was taken hidden in the California mountains surrounded by farming land. As you’re driving along you come across a rock covered makeshift parking lot you can park at and admire the landscape. A short walk from the makeshift parking lot you find this (long exposure) view of Grimes Canyon.
All the best skater come to this iconic skate park to ride. Caught one of them mid trick in the air!
Shot of me from a tripod I set up. My background is a colorful spiral parking garage!
Portrait shot of model in downtown LA. Lower grand gives off both a great light from above as well as darker tones to work with from below!
SiubhanDuinne
Gorgeous photos!
?BillinGlendaleCA
Really nice shots. If you look at the Deer Creek photo, you can see where I’ve shot some of my Milky Way shots.
raven
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p.a.
Really nice. Hope you submit again.
JPL
It is nice to sign on in the morning and be welcomed with beautiful photos. Thank you.
@?BillinGlendaleCA: That’s cool.
Amir Khalid
Awesome pics. The airborne skateboarder shot is cool.
Barbara
Love them all but the Malibu and skater shots are my faves. It is so hard to get good pictures of the ocean.
JeanneT
Huh. Awesome and gorgeous are already used. Beautiful will have to do…..
Mary G
Love to see places I’ve been. Even the parking garage. Also the long exposures.
MazeDancer
Great photos! Especially loved DEER CREEK ROAD.
Palindrome
Beautiful! Love Big Sur and the skateboarder.
oatler.
I think surf artist Rick Ogden used to enjoy painting Laguna Beach.
J R in WV
Great photo set!
Being from back east, we’ve had a couple of trips to the west coast, but mostly from the Golden Gate north to the Puget Sound — all wonderful rocks and the ocean…
Thanks for sharing your photos with us! They are splendid!
HinTN
That shot of the skater takes my breath. The long exposures are beautiful. The rest are a nice reminder of a part of the world I do like to visit. Thank you!
JanieM
Great way to greet the day, and with such an interestingly varied set of pictures.
The skateboard shot — amazing that you caught the skater not only in the air, but against that beautiful sky. Also the parking garage — at first glance, it seems fairly simple. But it turns out there’s an awful lot to look at there. Thanks!
Tenar Arha
These are great! Thank you.
TomatoQueen
Lovely photos. So nice to see my grandma’s (Daddy’s mother) old neighborhoods–she made it a habit to move from Laguna to Santa Monica to Venice and return from about 1950 to her passing in the early 90s.
susanna
You captured these scenes beautifully, enough to stop, see and find renewed appreciation of northern CA sites long familiar in my sights.
Miss Bianca
Oh, man, first my home state of CO in the After Dark series, now this. You remind me of just how much I *love* California, and how much I miss traveling! Great photos!
UncleEbeneezer
Great pix. Thanks for sharing!
Steve from Mendocino
Really fun for me, having spent 73 years here in California (minus extended stays in France and Puerto Rico). Thanks for the memories.
way2blue
Love the Deer Creek Road photo. Very cool! Thanks.
Yutsano
Every time I see pictures of the California coastline it revives my desire to rent a convertible and go down the PCH from Monterey to San Diego.
Jinchi
For a moment I thought we’d be seeing a nostalgic look at WaterGirl’s first post.
suilebhan
Wonderful photos. Thank you for these shots of my native state. Miss it.
ArtistOnlyLA
Thank you all for you kind comments on my photos, I really appreciate every one of them! I’ll be submitting photos of my travels more often! :)