This past Saturday, some friends and I decided to head out and go to the beach for a day. I live in San Diego, California just minutes from the ocean, but for some reason, I just never make it down to the beach. After we made some homemade sushi at my place, we headed out. One of my friends has a military ID, so we were able to go to the (relatively empty) Breakers Beach on the Naval Air Station North Island military base. I packed up most of my digital gear (including a cheapo tripod I didn’t mind getting eaten by the sand), so right from the start I treated this as a photography retreat.