A Really Full Day

I was taking pictures from morning 'til night today. First, headshots for the lovely and adorable Amy Storkel. She's got a little Pippi Longstocking (who, by the way she LOVED as a kid) going on with the pigtails. So cute!





This one won't work as a headshot, but I just couldn't resist taking it. I think it's just so sweet and pretty!




Isn't the wooden fence in the background cool?! I love the warm golden tones in it.






I'm taking some interior design classes through the UCLA Extension Program (loving them!). One of my assignments was to go to visit a building made in an architectural style that we liked, and photograph it (please, please don't throw me in dat der briar patch!). So, today, I headed over to West Hollywood... (to me, this image just yells WEST HOLLYWOOD)




...to 835 North Kings Road



to see the truly fabulous Rudolph Schindler House. I've got to write a whole paper about this place, so forgive me if I don't elaborate a lot tonight (at 1:30am!) on my blog, but I really, really enjoyed visiting the Schindler House. You have to walk down the pathway in the photo above to get to the house, and when you get there, you feel like you are miles away from all of the traffic and movement of LA. It felt like taking a little vacation.












I did not feel that my visit could be complete without a portrait of myself in the Schindler House (a la "myspace" style):




This is the golden sunlight shining through the vines on the other side of these Shoji screen type walls:




After the Schindler House, I headed over to UCLA for my class. I got there at this perfect time of day where the light just feels like magic. Last week I was wishing I had my camera with me because it was just so beautiful, and this week I was so happy when I realized I DID have my camera with me!




The Bougainvillea was trimmed into a hedge, and it just spread on forever:




For my class tonight, we were given the assignment to do an art piece using color and pattern that described who we were. I just loved all of the different ways that people chose to express themselves. Judith Corona was our guest speaker, and she had fun analyzing all of us:



And in case you are wondering what I would look like if I was color and pattern, this is it - my artistic self-interpretation:


And that was my really full day!