In Focus: Staff photos from March 1 to March 7

Hundreds of Proposition 8 opponents take to the streets of Los Angeles during a downtown rally and march.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

The Jonas Brothers -- seated from left, Kevin, Joe and Nick -- go outdoors with CBS’ “The Early Show” in New York.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Huntington Beach lifeguard Zach Duehring, 20, center, stands guard as a competitor throws his arms up as he exits the 56-degree water during a race around the pier, the first of three races during Huntington Beach’s seasonal lifeguard tryouts. More than a hundred competitors vied for 25 jobs.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Loyola High Coach Jamal Adams celebrates with his team after Friday night’s semifinal victory over La Mirada at El Camino College in Torrance.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Candles and flowers mark the spot in front of a Westlake building where tamale seller Cosme Gonzalez, 46, was killed in what police say was an attempted robbery. Many neighborhood teenagers, including those assembled for a quinceañera, had grown up eating the street vendor’s tamales.  (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)

Members of the Camera Guild of Sun City, AZ, walk through a patch of wildflowers in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Wildflowers are blooming across the desert floor, producing large, colorful patches of verbena, poppies, desert dandelions and many others.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Near a poster for “The Wrestler,” an actor by the single name Brogee takes part in a protest outside Fox Studios in Century City over comments by Fox executive Peter Chernin, who said he viewed the company’s Hulu website as a replacement venue for TV reruns. Members of the Screen Actors Guild fear that eliminating reruns would erode residual payments that go toward health insurance contributions.  (Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times)

A security guard peeks through an open window on the third floor of El Mercado de Los Angeles on 1st Street, joining the mariachi mural on the side of the building.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Saferia Degraffenreid, 16 -- best friend of slain Los Angeles High School football player Jamiel Shaw -- and Stefoni Sam, 9, are solemn as they listen to stories about Shaw during a candlelight vigil on his street in Arlington Heights, where he was killed a year ago. Pedro Espinoza, a gang member, is on trial in the slaying.  (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)