Southern California Moments

Camille Grace photographed the sunset from a path near the Santa Monica Pier on Sunday.

Sergey Sus was in the Boyle Heights area in January for a photo walk.

From his home in Los Feliz, David Freid watched the sunset on May 9.

Cesar Aliaga photographed a hummingbird nest at his home in Sylmar in March.

J. Michael Elliott photographed these zebras at the Los Angeles Zoo on April 14.

In the Santa Monica Mountains, this tree managed to escape the flames of the Springs fire that scorched tens of thousands of acres in Ventura County.

Although it’s Mother’s Day this weekend, some small recognition does need to go out to some fathers out there who go the extra mile, including wearing their daughter’s child-sized backpack around town so she doesn’t have to.

Having a dinosaur hang out on a rooftop can be great for advertising, but it can also provide a unique opportunity for photos.

What’s worth a pie in the face? Not too many things.

Photographer Albert Valles was checking out the damage left behind by the Camarillo fires last week, when he noticed a group of fire trucks passing by on Las Posas Road in Point Mugu.

For those of us who lack form (or grace), the world of ballet may be a place where few of us will tread but which never fails to captivate the audience and transport it to seemingly otherworldly places.

Although it’s impossible to tell whether this waiter is walking to or from work, perhaps it doesn’t truly matter — the mystery and the bustling downtown Los Angeles scene pull together to form a portrait of a vibrant city on the move.

Benjamin Kuo says he captured this remarkable shot Thursday morning while dropping his children off at school.

On March 31, reader Angela Aleiss found herself “attracted to the multiple glass panels and their texture” that she observed inside of a building in Century City.

This photo of Mission Viejo Lake was taken around 6 a.m. Jan. 2 by reader Alyssa Hunter.

Since this is a “So Cal Moments” entry, you might guess that this picture was taken in downtown L.A.’

A child runs past a mural on Brooks Avenue in Venice in this image by Michael Ares.

A group of men sit and play guitar in the back of a pickup truck during Cruising Grand, a weekly event in Escondido showcasing classic cars and hot rods.

An empty Dodger Stadium lies in the foreground of this image, taken by Nancy Dushkin while on a helicopter tour of Los Angeles on Sunday.

The fenced-off Santa Fe depot in Monrovia is made more haunting in this image from Justin Jakobson’s captured on a Revueflex SD-1 SLR with cross-processed Fujichrome Velvia 50 slide film.

A man rides a Trikke “carving vehicle” down Main Street in downtown Los Angeles during CicLAvia on Sunday.

Kris Jaro Hasson shot this photo of a butterfly on Monday at the Butterfly Pavilion at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles.

Armin Adams photographed a pot of basil and a bouquet of flowers near a kitchen window in his Venice home on Tuesday, trying to capture the light shining through the basil leaves.

John “Rod” Rodrigues photographed this scene of Pacific Coast Highway near Point Mugu, which he regularly passes on his daily commute, on March 2.

Cat Harris and her daughter visited the Last Bookstore in downtown Los Angeles in March.

Kathy Degner photographed this band-tailed pigeon and its scene-stealing companion in her backyard in Pasadena on March 25.

Erin Xavier photographed Culver City’s Culver Plaza in August during its demolition.

Chris Valle got this photo of gulls at Long Beach’s Alamitos Beach back in early February.

“The man with the pork-pie hat caught my eye,” David Patrick Valera says of the inspiration for this photo, taken at the Los Angeles Central Library in February.

Ric Berryman got this action shot of a bird coming in for a landing on a cactus at the Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden in Arcadia last month.

Damian Gadal got this shot of a human-and-dog jogging duo at Santa Barbara’s Butterfly Beach, a popular spot for dog owners and their pets.

David Sanden captures the sun reflected in a friend’s glasses when “something seriously funny happened” during his bachelor party at Ocotillo Wells on Feb. 24.