In Focus: Staff Photos from July 27 - Aug. 2
A worker removes broken glass at Pomona City Hall after a 5.4 earthquake in nearby China Hills shook the Southland, the first significant temblor in more than a decade to be centered in an urban area of California. (rfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
Corey Dixon, 14, sorts through products on the floor at Kmart in Diamond Bar after the quake. The store later closed so workers could return fallen merchandise to shelves. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)
Nathaniel Curran hops on a wave during his quest to beat Tim Boal in the final of the men’s
Kerri Walsh dives to save a ball during a semifinal match that she and teammate Misty May-Treanor won to move on to the finals of the AVP Crocs Slam Bud Light Long Beach Open. The pair won in the finals for their 101st consecutive match. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
Visitors to Glacier Point in Yosemite were greeted by a layer of smoke from a fire burning to the west of the national park. Half Dome is at left. (Robert Durell / Los Angeles Times)
A helicopter fights a small fire in Griffith Park just west of the Los Angeles Zoo. Sunday’s blaze occurred 14 months after wind-whipped flames consumed 1,200 acres in the park and forced the evacuation of hundreds of nearby residents. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)
Andrew Cromartie plays chess with Charles Dungey, reflected in Cromartie’s sunglasses, at the International Chess Park in the shadow of the Santa Monica Pier. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
Delaney Coullahan, 9, hugs her mother, Cheryl, a cancer patient. Delaney gets support from Kids Konnected, an Orange County group that helps children deal with their parents’ illness. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
George Boe paddles along the Los Angeles River in Van Nuys. He was one of 12 kayakers who began a 51-mile, three-day journey in response, environmentalists say, to the Army Corps of Engineers’ recent declaration that the waterway wasn’t a true river because it wasn’t navigable. (Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times)
During a rehearsal for the Miss Jalisco Pageant, Letty Alvarez, right, celebrates her birthday at Casa del Mexicano in L.A.’s Boyle Heights. The center, a historic sentinel for Mexican culture, had fallen on hard times but is having a comeback. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)