Mark Day of Santa Cruz is painted with food coloring to augment his horns. Outrageous costumes are part of the spectacle. (RICK LOOMIS / Los Angeles Times)
Fireworks explode around Burning Man, a 70-foot-tall effigy of a man. (RICK LOOMIS / Los Angeles Times)
Oil lamps are carried to posts to light the way to the center camp. (RICK LOOMIS / Los Angeles Times)
A fire dancer practices her craft on the final night of the festival. (RICK LOOMIS / Los Angeles Times)
A man shouts into the night as he dances around the remains of Burning Man. (RICK LOOMIS / Los Angeles Times)
The founder of the Burning Man festival, Larry Harvey, uses a megaphone to address a crowd assembled at one of the event’s theme camps. (RICK LOOMIS / Los Angeles Times)
Syris DeVine, 3, of Oakland, peaks out the window of a fuzzy yellow bus as it cruises down the network of streets in Black Rock City. (RICK LOOMIS / Los Angeles Times)
