More photos of the year 2015

Lt. Cmdr. Brett Dawe, Royal Navy; Maj. Shane Nicoll, Australian Army; and Lt. Cmdr. Ben Roberts, Royal Australian Navy, left to right, gather on the red carpet during Newport Beach opening night festivities at Edward's Big Newport on in April.

Lt. Cmdr. Brett Dawe, Royal Navy; Maj. Shane Nicoll, Australian Army; and Lt. Cmdr. Ben Roberts, Royal Australian Navy, left to right, gather on the red carpet during Newport Beach opening night festivities at Edward’s Big Newport on in April.

  (Don Leach / Daily Pilot)

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Professor Kei Akagi, for the Claire Trevor School of Arts music department, in his office at UC Irvine in January.

  (KEVIN CHANG / Daily Pilot)

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Brandy Young, left, and Erin Huffstutter, photographed in October, started a new online magazine called “I Heart Costa Mesa.”

  (Kevin Chang / Daily Pilot)

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Costa Mesa High School senior Roderick Edwards, photographed in February, won a full-ride scholarship, through a national nonprofit program called QuestBridge, to attend Wesleyan University in Connecticut.

  (KEVIN CHANG / Daily Pilot)