There’s starting to become a certain “expected” turnout when it comes to these Cars & Coffee events hosted by Black Diamond. There was no shortage of exotics, and a few of these were far from your average off the lot type. Thankfully I woke up a little earlier and decided to rinse the car down, fueled up, and made my way out. Unfortunately this wasn’t a “roll with the windows down” type of morning because Summer seems to be starting early I guess? But after parking, catching up with a buddy of mine who also does media, I grabbed an amazing dirty chai latte from the baristas and went to work, which really doesn’t feel like that’s the right word for what I do.

It was a nice change of pace to be out at this event shooting for myself instead of covering the event for work. Although…I guess technically I was still technically working? You know what I mean. This year I went out to support a family member who was showing his recently restored vehicle, and have the kiddo take a few photos of some pretty awesome cars (gotta start’em young).

Also, funnel cakes.

It’s been awesome getting out to these early events every so often. Usually I’m a ghost, I’ll say Hi to the few people I recognize then get to walking around – capture a few images – all while thinking about what the heck I’m going to write. Ok, that last part is a lie, I don’t really know what I’ll be writing about till I’m actually here putting things together. BUT, lately I’ll stop at a car to really give it a good look over and I’ll usually strike up a conversation with the owner. After all, none of these cars that end up on here mean anything at all without some sort of story between them and the owner.