Memorial Day 2013

Thousands spectators attend the Memorial Day Observance Monday, May, 27, 2013, at Green Hills Memorial Park in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. (Photo by Ringo Chiu/PHOTOFORMULA.com)

Garcetti Wins Los Angeles Mayor's Race

Los Angeles Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti speaks at a news conference in Los Angeles Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Garcetti defeated city Controller Wendy Greuel by a 54 percent to 46 percent margin. (Photo by Ringo Chiu/PHOTOFORMULA.com)

Protest Sale Of Los Angeles Times To Koch Brothers

Members of the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy hold signs and masks of Koch brothers during a rally, May 14, 2013, in opposition to the possibility of billionaires Charles and David Koch buying the Los Angeles Times, in downtown Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Times, even after years of mismanagement and newsroom layoffs one of the nation’s great newspapers, is for sale. And Charles and David Koch, the oil and gas billionaires who funded the rise of the Tea Party and spend millions every year to deny climate change and undermine clean air and clean water laws, want to buy it. (Photo by Ringo Chiu/PHOTOFORMULA.com)

Gun Buyback in Los Angeles

Los Angeles City Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck  in a press conference on Monday, May 6, 2013, in Los Angeles, to announc that 1,172 firearms were collected during the 2013 Gun Buyback in this weekend, bringing the total number of firearms removed from City streets during the Villaraigosa administration to 11,151. In total, 516 handguns, 381 rifles, 226 shotguns, and 49 assault weapons were collected this weekend from the four Gun Buyback locations citywide. (Photo by Ringo Chiu/PHOTOFORMULA.com)

Springs Fire Day 3

Springs Fire Day 2

Wildfire keep burning along the PCH in Point Mugu, California, Friday, May 3, 2013. (Photos by Ringo H.W. Chiu)