
". . . y como en todo lo que hay vida, existe muerte." (Omar Sanchez / TD)

Wildfires burn by the 133 South toll road highway entrance in Irvine during the Silverado Canyon Fire on October 26, 2020. The fire had burned over 13,000 acres across affected areas in south Orange County and at one point had 750+ firefighters on duty. (Omar Sanchez / Voice of OC)

Valentín Martinez, owner of Nino's Bridal Couture, sets up a quinceañera dress display at the center of the Orange County Streetcar construction site on Fourth Street in downtown Santa Ana at around 6:15 a.m. Martinez is one of many business owners downtown protesting the Orange County Transportation Authority's (OCTA) Streetcar project, as it is severely affecting the income of local businesses. (Omar Sanchez / Voice of OC)

Ted Dang, 52, helps collect ballots from voters arriving in their vehicles at the Orange County Registrar of Voters office in Santa Ana. Dang works for the OC Public Works, but was volunteering his time to help during midterm election night. Nov. 8, 2022. (Omar Sanchez / Voice of OC)

A woman walks through a homeless encampment at El Centro Cultural de México in Santa Ana on April 13, 2021. Homeless encampments surfaced in downtown Santa Ana after supervisors shut down the Courtyard Transition Center at the civic center, the last walk-up shelter run by the county, according to Voice of Orange County publisher Norberto Santana Jr. (Omar Sanchez / Voice of OC)

Orange County SC defeated LA Galaxy II by the final score of 1-0 inside Irvine Great Park’s Championship Soccer Stadium on Sept. 10, 2022. Irvine City Council members met on Sept. 12 to decide whether the stadium would be home to LA Galaxy’s reserve team or Orange County’s only professional soccer team for the 2023 season. (Omar Sanchez / Voice of OC)

“I just want them to be able to look back and have good feelings, good memories about playing high school baseball here at Los Amigos.” Head varsity baseball coach Aaron Pines said he played sports when he was in high school & competed in the playoffs frequently. However, he never won a league title. Pines has been the head coach at Los Amigos for three years and led them to their first Garden Grove league title in program history while battling through cancer. (Omar Sanchez / Voice of OC)

The Los Angeles Angels welcome 13,000+ fans inside Angel Stadium on April 1, 2021 for the first time since Sept. 2019 due to the pandemic limiting people from attending games during the 2020 MLB season. (Omar Sanchez / TD)

Cal State Fullerton Men's Basketball upsets UCLA at Pauley Pavilion on December 28, 2019 by the final score of 77-74 with the help of late scoring and a steal by Titans guard Austen Awosika (right). It was only CSUF's second ever victory against UCLA and their first since 2009. (Omar Sanchez / Daily Titan)

Kyneye Rosenbaum, 16, rides his motor bike around a large crowd of guests at the “Ladera Love Pride Parade event. Rosenbaum had never been to a Pride event prior and wanted to start by attending a smaller one. (Omar Sanchez / Voice of OC)

Four people, including a child, are dead after a shooting occurred at an office building in Orange on March 30, 2021. Police responded to an active shooting call at 202 West Lincoln Avenue around 5:30 p.m. and police arrived as shots were being fired. City of Orange authorities say it's the worst mass shooting in their city since 1997. (Omar Sanchez / Voice of OC)

Capt. Scot Willey of University Police walks past the silver Infiniti vehicle of Cal State Fullerton special consultant Steven Shek Keung Chan, where he was killed outside College Park on Aug 19, 2019. Chan was fatally stabbed by his colleague less than a week before the start of the fall semester. (Omar Sanchez / Daily Titan)

Snare drummers from the Marching Vlogs Drumline (MVDL) rehearsing for their virtual community performance fundraiser that took place on Aug. 15, 2020. The MVDL fundraised $5000+ for the La Puente Outreach Food Pantry that aids in feeding the homeless, senior citizens on limited budgets and families financially affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in Los Angeles County. (Omar Sanchez / Marching Vlogs)

born to burn from the heavens (Omar Sanchez / Dark Sky 2023)

celestial beings (Omar Sanchez / Dark Sky 2023)

extraterrestrial (Omar Sanchez / Dark Sky 2023)

Raveena: Asha's Awakening concert at The Observatory Orange County (Omar Sanchez / TD)

Don Palo at the Lexington Bar (Omar Sanchez / TD)

Willa Madrid; Bachelor of Arts in Communications: Entertainment & Tourism, Minors in Music & Asian American studies (Omar Sanchez / TD)

Cumbiaton 2021 (Omar Sanchez / Segerstrom Center for the Arts)

Walter Pyramid | Cal State Long Beach (Omar Sanchez / TD)

"Bailando en mis botas." (Omar Sanchez / TD)

Coollab Festival 2022 (Omar Sanchez / Segerstrom Center for the Arts)

Brian to Earth and Santa Ana hip-hop jazz quintet Apollo Bebop perform at the 2021 Collab Festival. (Omar Sanchez / Segerstrom Center for the Arts)

RX Bandits at the Garden Amp. (Omar Sanchez / TD)

e x p i r i n g . . . (Omar Sanchez / Dark Sky 2022)

Del Divorcio (Omar Sanchez / TD)

5000 Old Pacific Highway (Omar Sanchez / TD)

Mashallah (Omar Sanchez / TD)

Eterno (Omar Sanchez / TD)

Epicentro (Omar Sanchez / TD)

divina (Omar Sanchez / TD)

Despues de Oración (Omar Sanchez / TD)

zona hotelera (Omar Sanchez / TD)

¿Cuándo fue la última vez que alegrastes la dia para alguen? (Omar Sanchez / TD)

Chacala, Nayarit (Omar Sanchez / TD)