ME.Rain Art.Red.RH–012500–Toting a bright red umbrella, a student becomes part of a colorful graphic as he makes his way past a speeedbump while crossing campus in the rain at Saddleback College, Tuesday morning in Mission Viejo. Photo/Art by:Richard Hartog

With a bright blue sky above – and reflected in the storm drain below – a beachgoer makes her way along Venice Beach (at Rose Ave.), late Tuesday afternoon in Venice.

People on an escalator are silhouetted against a backdrop of red during the opening night at the Nokia Theater in downtown Los Angeles Thursday October 17, 2007.

It’s football weather a half hour before kickoff at the USC/Notre football game at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Saturday afternoon in L.A.

Race fans from all walks of life – some sporting cowboy hats – are caputred as their shadows splash on a wall as the late afternoon sun sets before the first Friday night post at Los Alamitos race track, recently in Los Alamitos.

Airman First Class (A1C) Michael Vratanina (cq) is silhouetted against a bright blue sky as he cleans an F15B Eagle in a wash rack, Thursday afternoon at Edwards Air Force Base.

He’s Got His Game Face On: There’s no doubt who this fan is routing for as he arrives early for the USC/Notre Dame football game, Saturday afternoon at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in L.A.

A worker becomes part of a graphic design as he is silhouetted atop a blue and yellow tarp while he prepares the building for fumigation on the roof at the Mount Olive Lutheran Church along Ocean Park Blvd. (and 14th) Friday in Santa Monica July 28, 2006.

In Too Deep?: Using a trail of the old paint underneath and behind him, head maintenance man Jose Valerano finds himself in the deep end of a pool as he works his way backwards while repainting the pool’s bottom a bright blue at a motel (the Lincon Inn), recently in Anaheim.

As the sun sets into the ocean behind them, Rabbi’s Shneur Zalamon Lipskier (cq), left, and Mendel Loschak make their way past a ten-foot high by twelve-foot wide menorrah before a lighting ceremnony to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah, tuesday evening on the Santa Monica Pier. The two are form the Chabad House of Lubavitch headquarters in Brooklyn, New York. STAFF PHOTO BY RICHARD HARTOG 12/23/97

Color meets white as a woman with an umbrella makes her way along the lake while snow from a winter storm falls in Lake Arrowhead Village in Lake Arrowhead Sunday January 06, 2008.

113032.CA.0713.et-prada.1– A traveling exhibition of Miuccia Prada skirts at the Prada Epicenter store on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hill, CA.

Clouds are reflected in a new Harbor Patrol vehicle window, left, as Deputy Sheriff color guard Montoya walks with a flag before the start of the grand opening ceremony for the newly completed Harbor Patrol Rescue Operations Center, Thursday morning in Corona del Mar. The 7,200-square-foot facility replaced the former 40-year-old Harbor Patrol Headquarters.

People turn into a colorful graphic as they blur past a Lady of Guadalupe backdrop along Olvera Steet during a celebration of El Dia de La Virgen De Guadalupe, Wednesday evening in downtown Los Angeles.It is a feast day and the start of the christmas season for the hispanic church, commemorates the appearance of the virgin.

Stage manager Bradley Spalter does some last minute vaccuming before the start of a dress rehearsal for the play, at UCLA’s Freud Playhouse in Westwood, Ca. Before the Show

A boy is silhouetted against the late-afternoon sky as he romps along the hills that overlook the Pierce College campus in Woodland Hills, Ca.

during the Great American Boycott 2007 march and rally at City Hall in Los Angeles Tuesday May 01, 2007.

An airplane making a landing is framed by a bright yellow Lamborghini on the left, and a Ferrari, right, at Beverly Hills Rent A Car, Friday morning near LAX in Los Angeles. Curbside service is offered, and many clients are picked up at the airport.

A woman bundles up underneath a hooded sweatshirt as she makes her way past a pair of colorfull buildings at the northeast corner of Wilshire and Vermont in Los Angeles Wednesday September 19, 2007. There is a Metro Red Line stop underneath the building. L.A. is expected to get its first significant rainfall in 150 days Thursday and Friday Ð an early start to the fall.

As the sun sets behind her, excercise rider Elena Aquino is silhouetted against a red sky as she waits between races recently at the Los Alamitos race track in Los Alamitos. Her horse is 5-year-old, Sir ByeBye.

Five-year-old Savannah Avila (cq) of Carson waves a flag and is backed by another, bigger flag as she has her picture taken during a Veteran’s Day Celebration at Veteran’s Park, Sunday morning in Carson.

A day after rain, a pedestrian, far left, makes hiw way past columns and puddles as the reflection of clouds accompanies him as he makes his way along the plaza entrance to the Orange County Superior Courthouse, Thursday afternoon in Santa Ana.

With the ferris wheel in the backround, a man with an umbrella braces himself against the rain as he makes his way along the Santa Monica Pier, Monday night in Santa Monica.

Color meets white as a woman with an umbrella makes her way along the lake while snow from a winter storm falls in Lake Arrowhead Village in Lake Arrowhead Sunday January 06, 2008.