My friend Jennifer who writes grants for MOCA told me about Eugonio. Then I read an article about him about in LA Times a while ago about his incredible art collection. So Angeleno e-mails me the address and I show up to the house (alone). As I walk in I see a Damien Hirst to my left a Nara to my right or maybe it was the other way around. After about 10 minutes I realized it was the gentleman featured in the Times article. I came back later that afternoon to meet up with the writer and do his portrait. After keeping us waiting for over an hour I was ready to strangle him. But of course the moment we met we started chatting up a storm. Eugonio...let's party!!

This is one of the few times when my patience paid off. When I arrived the light was pretty flat but as the sun set it started getting sexy. The interior has these great lines and I wanted to bring them out with the sunset. So I waited and waited and in the span of 45 minutes I was running around the house like a mad man. If you look close you can see a shot of me peeking out behind the palm tree on the exterior shot. I felt no need to photoshop it out.