For the last shooting day of our tour, we went to Hacienda Chimalpa, in Chimalpa. This was a renovated hacienda that was being operated as a boutique hotel and event space. It had a number of interesting spaces and specialty rooms that we were able to shoot in. The owner of the estate shadowed us pretty closely and began to exert more control over what we were shooting as the day went on. Amusingly it culminated in her wanting some boudoir-type pictures of herself, and she ran and dressed in a mink coat and got up on the bed in one of the ornately decorated bedrooms. The control of our shoot was a little strange and annoying, but in retrospect we all kind of found it amusing. Apart from that, it was a beautiful property with an interesting collection of historic artifacts.
We headed back home for lunch, and had hoped to do a little more shooting around the property, but some hard rains came and we just relaxed and reviewed pictures for the remainder of the afternoon. Sadly, in the early evening, one of Mimi’s sweet little dogs got her leg run over by a car which put a damper on the evening. Fortunately, it seemed that there was no major damage, and she seems to be recovering nicely.