Or “The View from the Lighthouse Steps”. The old Lighthouse on Point Loma stands, appropriately, high above the bay and the city. What you see in the foreground is the water catchment and the cistern that kept the lighthouse supplied in all but the driest season. What you see in the sky, is enough water to fill the cistern several times over. The storm was still passing there to the east and south over and behind the city. It had cleared the Point about 40 minutes before…but another came through before dark. Several inches of rain over several days. That is pretty significant for San Diego and southern California in this dry year.

What attracts me in this image is the crystal clarity of the geometric rain washed foreground, contrasted with the geometry of the city fading into those amazing clouds. It is quite possibly the most successful shot I have taken from Point Loma, and, over the years of visiting in early March for the San Diego Birding Festival, I have taken many.

Sony NEX 3NL with 16-50mm zoom. 24mm equivalent. ISO 200 @ 1/800th @ f13. Processed for HDR effect in Snapseed on the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014.