You can see the ocean from Scripps Ranch. Well, sort of.
It has been an agonizingly long week trying to get photos taken for one of our new listings. The weather hasn’t been cooperating. The addresses on my latest onslaught of bills and Pottery Barn catalogues tell me I still live in San Diego, but the gray skies would suggest otherwise.
This new offering is a view home. As such, it becomes particularly important that the photos tell the story. You may call them clouds, but we call them a marine layer and, by any name, they wreak havoc on our otherwise good intentions. “It has an ocean view – I promise!” is not the compelling ad campaign we are after.
So, beating the rain (yes, rain!) by one day, we bit the bullet and went forward with the shoot. Had we done so midday, the exterior shots would have been disastrous. By twilight, however, we were able to capture at least some of the glory of a magnificent San Diego sunset. Clouds, in fact, make it better.
Cloudy days are also better for interior photography. Absent natural outdoor back lighting, the result is a two-for-one deal of sorts, with warm views of the inside set against of backdrop of glowing outside spaces.
Very pretty-ful! Now I’m ready for some sun.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kris Berg is Co-Owner and Designated Broker of San Diego Castles Realty. If not-so static web sites are your thing, go here at once where you will find loads of real estate information including homes for sale, market trends, floor plans and more. Kris's hobbies include fencing and spot welding. She likes kittens. 
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Nice pictures, especially the foreboding clouds. A warning to the knife catcher? I wish I could see bigger versions. They all link to your mug shot.
Jakob – Here is your link.
I dropped the photos in from flickr, and thus the ugly, recurring mug shot.
these are incredible shots. do you shoot them yourself?
Shoot them myself? Good grief, no! I trust only the trained professionals. I gave up on playing photographer long ago, well aware of both my strengths and my limitations.
The shots were great, but the point is really that they were even passable given the dark skies we have been living under for a week.
I definitely vote for the sunset. As a former PB resident, I can attest that San Diego has some of the most gorgeous sunsets.
Milan, Then you will appreciate that the sunset here is directly right (north) of Mt. Soledad. We, too, were PB residents BC (before children).