NOSE TO NOSE

Closeness is often regarded as an encroachment, if not an outright invasion. But it can feel pretty good when the invader is someone you love. A man hunkers down with his best friend in a larger-than-life promotional graphic applied to the side of a building along Sunset Boulevard. The hustle and bustle of LAX drift away as Raime Breight and Mark Prieve exchange a hello kiss. And L.A. firefighter Paul Palmer receives a congratulatory kiss from daughter Dallas, 8, after his graduation as a certified paramedic.

ETERNAL FLAME

Remembrance. Reverence. It’s time for both as people file into a service for children slain in Nickerson Gardens and as Susy Garcia, above left, Mayra Farias and Nereyda Farias sing during a posada at the San Fernando Gardens Housing Project in Pacoima.