I got an e-mail a few weeks back from Vanessa, the sister of my old roommate, about shooting some portraits of her family while they were vacationing in San Diego.  It was a pretty dreary day, so I wanted to take them somewhere where there would be elements that would add some texture to the sky, and where I could light it to provide them with a look that was unique and wasn’t the prototypical “San Diego portrait”.  I took them to one of my favorite spots, where the allowed us to get some really dramatic images.