As an eventful year comes to a close, we invite you to look back with us at a collection of photographs by the award-winning photojournalists of the Los Angeles Times that captures the moments of 2015 in California and the West.

Terrorist attack in San Bernardino

DECEMBER 2, 2015: San Bernardino Sheriff Deputies draw guns and crouch behind a minivan during an active search for the suspects involved in the mass shooting of 14 people at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California.

DECEMBER 3, 2015: From left, Larry Jones, pastor of Cross over Outreach Church, Dr. Jeannetta Million, pastor of Victoria's Believers Church, and Arnold Morales, pastor of King of Glory Church, bow their heads during a prayer vigil for the victims and those involved in the mass shootings that killed 14 and wounded many more at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino.

DECEMBER 2, 2015: Emergency personnel bring in a wounded victim to Loma University Medical Center during the terrorist shooting spree in San Bernardino.

DECEMBER 3, 2015: Fabio Ahumada, a San Bernardino EMT, attends a vigil at San Manuel Stadium, in San Bernardino with his fellow EMT's.

DECEMBER 3, 2015: Fabio Ahumada, a San Bernardino EMT, attends a vigil at San Manuel Stadium, in San Bernardino with his fellow EMT's.

DECEMBER 3, 2015: Ryan Reyes breaks down immediately after finding out his boyfriend of three years, Daniel Kaufman, was one of those killed during Wednesday's mass shooting at the Inland Regional Center that left 14 people dead.

Wildfires

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015: A news crew runs from the Valley fire along Butts Canyon Road southeast of Middletown.

AUGUST 2 2015: Firefighters stand their ground to make sure the fire doesn't double back under a smoke filled sky at the Rocky Fire along Highway 20 in Clear Lake.

AUGUST 14, 2015: Firefighters work to put out a backfire on Highway 39 above Glendora.

Mother Nature

JULY 1, 2015: Lightning and rainbow form over Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada Wednesday, July 1, 2015. The storm brought very little rain to the lake, which is at a historic low.

MARCH 2, 2015: A surfer runs across the beach amid rare sight of a blanket of hail on the beach that makes Huntington Beach Surf City look more like snow city after a hail and thunderstorm passed over the area.

AUGUST 26, 2015: The Los Angeles River reflects late afternoon light as it flows beneath he Soto Street Bridge in Boyle Heights.

MAY 4, 2015: Fishermen are dwarfed by the rising banks of Lake McClure. Located 40 miles east of Modesto and fed by the waters of the Merced River, water levels at the lake stand at less than ten percent of capacity.

MAY 20, 2015: Oil spill cleanup and containment effort continues on the shore near Refugio State Beach in Santa Barbara.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015: A paddle boarder gets a close view of the waves crashing against the jetty in Redondo Beach.

OCTOBER 17, 2015: Salvage crews remove vehicles on Highway 58 east of Tehachapi, that were stuck in up to 20 feet of mud and debris after torrential rains pummeled the area.

OCTOBER 16, 2015: Tony Hemming uses a shovel to dig his father's car out of a mudslide on Elizabeth Lake Road. Several cars were are inundated with mud after a deluge Thursday caused mudslides throughout the Leona Valley.

Southland

JULY 4, 2015: Hijab Gulwani, 18, of Los Angeles, and Zain Delawalla, 16, of Santa Monica, pose for a friend while wearing American flags during the 3rd Annual Grand Park Fourth of July Block Party in downtown Los Angeles.

MAY 27, 2015: Left to right-Marjorie Mabini takes a "selfie" with her niece Jaydah Mabini, and son Jaren, 1, in front of the "Urban Light" lampost installation at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles.

OCTOBER 26, 2015: Random International's Tom Stacey, from left, Hannes Koch, and Dev Joshi, drink their coffee and converse while standing inside the newly assembled Rain Room at LACMA in Los Angeles.

>OCTOBER 29, 2015:> By the pool in the courtyard where they are temporarily living, Syrian refugee Omar plays around with his little sister, Masaa, age 5, at the motel their family is living in until they can find more permanent housing.

NOVEMBER 30, 2015: Downey police Officers Sofia Petronas, left, and Blanca Reyes, place roses on the casket of Downey police Officer Ricardo Galvez, during his graveside service at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier. Galvez was shot to death during an apparent botched robbery.

AUGUST 13, 2015: Abel Medrano checks the temperuture of compost ready to besold on the market at the Inland Empire Utilities Agency in Rancho Cucamonga.

MARCH 23, 2015: Last but not least, museum workers work together properly mount and align James Abbott McNeill Whistler's painting, "Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1," also famous under its colloquial name Whistler's Mother, onto the wall for display at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena.

Music Scene

APRIL 10, 2015: Music fans revel in the loud beats at the water-drenched dance floor at the Do Lab during Day 1 of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio

APRIL 10, 2015: Poetic Kinetics giant caterpillar moves between venues at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival Indio.

AUGUST 1, 2015 Fans cheer a performance by the Weeknd during Hard Summer at the Fairplex in Pomona.

APRIL 20, 2015: Sexy Star, left, takes flight during a match with MARTY 'THE MOTH' MARTINEZ, right, during Lucha Underground in the Boyle Heights neighborhood, in Los Angeles.

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015: Graffiti artist Mear One (Kalen Ockerman), stands alongside a mural he painted called "Unity Consciousness," depicting the likeness of Yogiraj Siddhanath in Silver Lake.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015: A man rides his bike through the 9/11: Let Freedom Wave memorial, which features nearly 3,000 flags, was erected once again by students from Pepperdine University in memory of those who died on 9/11 in Malibu.

OCTOBER 11, 2015: The Grand Park fountain in downtown Los Angeles.