I tried to capture the flavor of the Victorian era through the colors and design in this abstract image of one of San Diego’s well-preserved 19th Century buildings – the Villa Montezuma. In this image, I organize elements of light and shadow, color and form, man made materials and the work of nature, into a coherent whole. The bold black shadows lead the eye into the picture from the top left and then move us down into through middle of the image in rhythmic steps. Notice how the diagonal shadows at the center also echo the slant of the thin diagonal shadow at left, as well as the repeating diagonal grooves on the wallboards at lower right. I also organize this photograph with repeating colors. A green plant sprouts into the picture diagonally from the lower right hand corner, its leaves echoed by the horizontal green bar splitting the right hand side of the picture. Plant shapes also show up on the orange tiles at left. Finally, the orange shingles compliment the color of the tiles. Looked at as a whole, this very small slice of patterned light, shadow, and color takes us back to another era in San Diego’s history.