Boys captured with a fish-eye lens on Mission Beach in San Diego.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Pablo Gil Garcia

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Daniel Rodriguez, 10, during Mexican Independence Day festivities in East Los Angeles.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Steve Saldivar

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"Even escalators can be romantic sometimes..." photographer Salina Canizales wrote of this image of a couple on an escalator in a downtown L.A. Metro station.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Salina Canizales

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Lights and confetti in Chinatown.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Lenny Lloyd de Silva

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A balloon floats over a couple silhouetted by an advertising kiosk at Paseo Colorado in Pasadena.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Dana Barsuhn

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The Wave of Flags, a memorial for the victims of 9/11, features 2,977 full-size flags standing high atop Pepperdine University's front lawn.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Terrell Woods

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Photographer Paolo Pamintuan's daughter doesn't want to be a fairy or a princess, instead preferring this one-size-too-small astronaut costume.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Paolo Pamintuan

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The photographer's 7-year-old daughter gets in one last swim before the start of school.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Kelly Mitch

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The newly opened Cars Land at Disney's California Adventure in Anaheim looks more like somewhere in the middle of the desert.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Shawn S. Park

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Mike Turturro of the Los Angeles-based blues band the Forty Fours leans on an upright bass during a show at the Tropics Lounge in Fullerton.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Kim C. Martin

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