Photojournalism

Fourteen-year-old Luke Schroder turns back to look at the smoke filled sky after surfing while fire burns in Malibu Sunday October 21, 2007.

UCLA linebacker Benjamin Lorier (#31), right, can only waych as Oklahoma State quarterback Donovan Woods sails over the goaline for a touchdown during second quarter action at the Rose Bowl, Saturday in Pasadena.

A burnt out car sits in the foreground as an entire neighborhood burns to the ground, Wednesday afternoon along Hook Creek Road in the Cedar Glen area of Lake Arrowhead.

LA JOLLA, CA – JUNE 15, 2008: Tiger Woods celebrates on the eighteenth green after sinking a putt for a birdie and to force a playoff with Rocco Mediate during the final round of the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines in La Jolla of June 15, 2008. (Richard Hartog/ Los Angeles Times)

Deputy public defender Michael Shultz, left, can hardly bear to watch as convicted three-striker and captured jail escapee George Lawerence Allen growls during a court appearance to set his sentancing date, tuesday afternoon at Santa Monica Court. STAFF PHOTO BY RICHARD HARTOG 8/20/96

Mick Jagger slaps hands with fans as he makes his way up a runway during Rolling Stones concert, Thursday night at the Staples center in Los Angeles.

ME.Rain Art.Red.RH–012500–Toting a bright red umbrella, a student becomes part of a colorful graphic as he makes his way past a speeedbump while crossing campus in the rain at Saddleback College, Tuesday morning in Mission Viejo. Photo/Art by:Richard Hartog

The hand of Violet Wightman, 97-yrs.-old, is cradled in the hand of classmate Richard Sandner as he reads her writings out loud during class at Fullerton College in Fullerton.

John Malkovich – actor, director and producer – at the Beverly Hills Hotel, Sunday in Beverly Hills. He is the producer and costar of the new Johnny Depp film, “The Libertine”, in which he plays Charles II of England.

A helicopter drops water on a brushfire near Vista Del Valle in Griffith Park in Los Angeles Tuesday May 08, 2007.

Actor Max von Sydow at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills Friday November 09, 2007. He is currently in, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”.

Angel centerfielder Gary Matthews Jr. leaps high up the wall to catch a shot hit by Texas Ranger Mark Teixeira to end the first inning at Angels Stadium in Anaheim Monday April 02, 2007. There was runner on third base.

Young British actor Charlie Hunnam at the Elixer, Friday afternoon in West Hollywood. He plays the title character in a new production of Nicholas Nickleby. The strikingly handsome Hunnam also appears in “Abandon” with Katie Holmes, and is heading to Romania for Anthony Minghella’s “Cold Mountain” with Nicole Kidman, Jude Law, et al.

Airman First Class (A1C) Michael Vratanina (cq) is silhouetted against a bright blue sky as he cleans an F15B Eagle in a wash rack, Thursday afternoon at Edwards Air Force Base.

Emma (she wouldn’t give her last name) peers out from underneath a blanket as she tries to keep warm along Los Angeles Street at 8th Street in Skid Row late Thursday in Los Angeles December 20, 2006. For a story on how the homeless suffer during the cold weather. She’s originally from Kansas City and she says she been in L.A. about three years.

U2 in concert. (more info to come) photo by Richard Hartog/LA Times

Harry Segil takes a moment in front of a garage door at his 3500 sq. ft. house in Wilshire Vista in L.A. Segil, of Harry ARt Furniture, has just sold the house and is moving to a very pared down work/loft space in Culver City. He is selling everything in the house in the next 3 weeks.

Laker Kobe Bryant blow past Phoenix Sun Ê? Boris Diaw, right, and throws down a reverse dunk vs. Phoenix Suns with three seconds left in the third quarter at the Staples Center in Los Angeles Tuesday December 25, 2007. Looking on is Laker Andrew Bynum, bottom left, and Phoenix’s Raja Bell.

A model struts her stuff during the Michelle Mason fashion show in the 2nd Street Tunnel, Saturday evening in downtown L.A.

during a look at the homeless people living out on islands in the LA River in Glendale, Ca.. Some people choose to dwell here, as opposed to downtown L.A.’s Skid Row.

As the sun sets into the ocean behind them, Rabbi’s Shneur Zalamon Lipskier (cq), left, and Mendel Loschak make their way past a ten-foot high by twelve-foot wide menorrah before a lighting ceremnony to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah, tuesday evening on the Santa Monica Pier. The two are form the Chabad House of Lubavitch headquarters in Brooklyn, New York. STAFF PHOTO BY RICHARD HARTOG 12/23/97