Check out our OC photographers’ favorite images from March 2025

Tesoro’s girls celebrate their victory after the girls basketball championship game between Tesoro High and Serra High for the CIF-SS Division 4AA championship at Edison High School on Saturday March 1, 2025.
(Photo by Michael Goulding, Contributing Photographer)

Mater Dei players celebrate their 2-1 victory following the CIF-SS Division 1 championship game against Troy on Saturday, March 1, 2025. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)

Charles Raasch, Christ Cathedral Sub-Organist, plays the Hazel Wright Organ during Bach-a-thon 2025 inside Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove, CA, on Monday, March 3, 2025. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Bodhi Roberson, 3, with encouragement from his grandpa John Lee, plays on the refurbished George Upton All Access Park at Carl Thornton Park in Santa Ana, CA on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. The playground was built in 1995. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)

A boy receives ashes during Ash Wednesday Mass at Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove, CA on Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Steve Lee of Santa Ana can’t resist interacting with squirrels at Fountain Valley’s Mile Square Park on Wednesday, March 5, 2025. “Park rangers discourage it, but it’s very difficult to resist because they are very cute. Lee was taking a mid-week walk at his favorite park to decompress, he said. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

A Stater Bros Market customer plugs his ears as he walks out of the store as union picketers make a ruckus in Costa Mesa, CA, on Wednesday, March 5, 2025. UFCW Local 324 is picketing multiple locations after Stater Bros laid off 63 courtesy clerks across four stores. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

The snow capped San Gabriel Mountains are seen from Anaheim, CA on Friday, March 7, 2025. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)

A woman puts a sign in the face of Joseph Camera as he argues about January 6 during a protest at Clubhouse 5 in Laguna Woods, CA, on Friday, March 7, 2025. The Laguna Woods Democratic Club protested the Republican Club of Laguna Woods’ decision to invite Jeffrey Scott Brown, a Jan. 6 rioter convicted for attacking police, for a paid speaking event. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Foothill’s Sean Green (18) celebrates after scoring against Villa Park during their Crestview League baseball game in Santa Ana, CA, on Friday, March 7, 2025. Foothill beat Villa Park, 2 to 0. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Adelia Sandoval, right, of the Juaneño Band of Mission Indians of the Acjachemen Nation, blesses surfers with smoke from burning sage during the Welcoming of the Whales Kickoff Ceremony on the first day of the 54th annual Festival of Whales in Dana Point on Friday, March 7, 2025. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Members of the Dana Point Surf Club catch waves before the sun sets on the first day of the 54th annual Festival of Whales in Dana Point on Friday, March 7, 2025. Dana Point’s famous rock feature known as the “Indian Face,” can be seen to the right of the setting sun. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Oceanside Outrigger canoers unexpectedly perhaps, meet Camp Pendleton Marines training in Assault Combat Vehicles (ACVs) on Saturday, March 8, 2025. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

JSerra players celebrate their 4-0 win following the final whistle in the CIF-SS Division 1 championship game against Loyola on Saturday, March 8, 2025, in front of their home crowd. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)

Sunday, March 9, 2025. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Sage Hill players cheer after their teammates score a basket late in the fourth period against Windward in the CIF Southern California Division 1 Regional girls basketball championship in Newport Beach on Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)

Rabbi Reuven Mintz at the Chabad Center for Jewish Life in Newport Beach, CA, on Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

The remains of two homes destroyed during the Airport Fire sit on El Cariso Road in El Cariso Village, CA, on Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Newport Harbor’s Charlie Von Der Ahe tries to hit the ball past Corona del Mar defenders in Sunset League boys volleyball game in Newport Beach on Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)

Contestants in the tie-breaker round, from left, Bridget Sweeney, Gavin Anderson, and Juliet Stuart, react when they realize they picked the correct answer during the first regional competition of The National Civics Bee in California ever will take place at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda on Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)

A woman and child run past volley ball nets as they brave the high winds near the Huntington Beach Pier inHuntington Beach on Thursday, March 13, 2025. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)

An AV-8B Harrier is moved into a hangar near the future location of the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum in Irvine, CA on Friday, March 14, 2025. The aircraft arrived in several parts and will be restored. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Los Alamitos player James Reveles (12) slides safely back to third during the game against Wilson on Saturday, March 15, 2025. Los Alamitos beat Wilson, 5-3. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Members of the Yorba Linda Girl Scout Honor Guard and Rep. Young Kim, place a wreath on the grave of Pat Nixon in Yorba Linda, CA on Monday, March 17, 2025. The Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum was celebrating the Pat Nixon Day of Service on what would have been Nixon’s 113th birthday. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Sonya Walger at a friends in Santa Monica, CA, home on Monday, March 17, 2025. Walger, who played Penny on the series “Lost,” is the author of “Lion,” a novel about life with her ne’er-do-well father. She lost her family home and personal library in the Palisades fire. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Chapman University student Hailey Bunsold, 21, center, and about 200 students take part in a walkout and protest on Monday, March 17, 2025, against Trump’s policies, including his executive orders to dismantle DEI. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Roslyn Lauterbach of Laguna Niguel comes face-to-face with her 7-month-old Newfypoo, a cross between a Newfoundland and a poodle, named Scrappy at Heisler Park in Laguna Beach on Monday, March 17, 2025. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Muhammad Wahby, left, and Adam Affaneh, both of Irvine play Smashball at Divers Cove below Heisler Park in Laguna Beach on Monday, March 17, 2025. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Orange County Assistant Public Defender Scott Sanders, who revealed entrenched corruption in the county’s justice system, is retiring at the end of the month. He will be going into private practice in Long Beach where he is pictured
on Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Rep. Lou Correa, D-Santa Ana, during an intimate forum focusing on potential Medicaid and Medicare cuts in Santa Ana, CA, on Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Caitlin Doyle, 6, gets a high five from Heidi Lucero after wining a game at the annual St. Joseph’s Day and Return of the Swallows celebration in San Juan Capistrano, CA on Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Bell ringers Michael Gastelum, closest, and Nathan K. Banda sound the bells at Mission San Juan Capistrano during the annual St. Joseph’s Day and Return of the Swallows celebration in San Juan Capistrano, CA on Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Soiphia Sandoval (19) embraces Jade Diaz (3) of Canyon after Diaz scored against El Modena in a Crestview League softball game at Canyon High School in Anaheim on Thursday, March 20, 2025. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Kylie Tafua (14) of El Modena is greeted by teammates at home plate after hitting a home run in a game against Canyon during a Crestview League softball game at Canyon High School in Anaheim on Thursday, March 20, 2025. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)

UC Irvine School of Medicine graduate Flora Park runs to her friends after she announced she will be doing her residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in general surgery during the annual Match Day the UC Irvine School of Medicine in Irvine on Friday, March 21, 2025. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)

UC Irvine School of Medicine graduate Elaine Chiao, right, celebrates with fellow graduate Flora Park, left, and fiancé Victor Lee, center, after learning she will be doing her residency at UCLA Medical Center in internal medicine during the annual Match Day the UC Irvine School of Medicine in Irvine on Friday, March 21, 2025. Chiao was also the very last graduate to announce her match so per UCI Medical School tradition she is awarded a “doctors satchel” that every medical school graduate has donated a dollar bill into. This year Chiao takes home $110. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Sam Solorio addresses the court as he joins seven other people during Young Adult Court graduation in Santa Ana, CA, on Friday, March 21, 2025. Solorio completed Young Adult Court, run by UC Irvine and Orangewood. Young Adult Court offers some 18 to 25-year-old males the opportunity to participate in a 2-year program that results in their felony being expunged. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Sergio Prado and his dog “Homer,” one of five winners of the annual San Juan Capistrano Pet Parade, participate in the 65th annual Swallow’s Day Parade on Saturday, March 22, 2025. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)

Co-curator Jim Washburn looks at a display of Agent Orange and Shattered Faith at the exhibit “Punk OC: From the Streets of Suburbia” at the Fullerton Museum Center in Fullerton, CA on Monday, March 24, 2025. Both bands are from Orange County. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Taylor Ward (3) of the Angels homers on a fly ball to left center field in the first inning during a Freeway Series exhibition game against the Dodgers at Angel Stadium in Anaheim on Monday, March 24, 2025. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Mater Dei girls basketball player Addison Deal is the Orange Copunty Register’s player of the year for 2024-25. She is pictured in Santa Ana on Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

At 28, after a rough stretch in his twenties and a conviction for a drug-related crime, Orange County resident Duc (who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retribution), had his green card revoked, resulting in him being undocumented in the U.S. He was photographed at VietRise, a progressive community advocacy group, in Garden Grove, CA on Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Ben McCulloch hugs Elizabeth Garcia as he visits Edwards Lifesciences in Irvine, CA, on Wednesday, March 26, 2025. Garcia is part of the valve team who stitched together the actual EVOQUE tricuspid replacement valve in his heart. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Jordan Lasher, with the Huntington Beach Fire Department, takes control of Razzberry who gets spooked while on the obstacle course during emergency horse-handling training. More than 140 firefighters took part in the fourth annual event at the J.F. Shea Therapeutic Riding Center in San Juan Capistrano on Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Vietnamese-American musician Duy Nguyen-Amigo, 29 pictured at Eisenhower Park in Orange on Thursday, March 27, 2025. It has been more than 10 years since Nguyen-Amigo told his parents, Hung and Thuy Nguyen, that he was gay. They did not take the news well. Like many in the Vietnamesse-American community they were not accepting of the LGBTQ+ community. Now his relationship with them is strong. “The coming out process was not just for me, but also for them, too,” Nguyen-Amigo said. “It’s a learning experience that took some time. They slowly but surely came around.”(Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Jesus Espinoza pushes his son, Eli Espinoza, as they are both dressed as characters from Legend of Zelda, outside WonderCon in Anaheim, CA, on Friday, March 28, 2025. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Elena Gordon holds an image of her father, Sgt. Hillard Gordon during an event commemorating Vietnam War Veterans Day on Saturday, March 29, 2025, in Westminster, Calif. (Photo by William Liang, Contributing Photographer)

Bubble artist Melody Yang is camouflaged in bottom right of a colorful bubble she created during the Mega Bubblefest Laser Show at the Discovery Cube in Santa Ana on Saturday, March 29, 2025. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Children react as they get sprayed with bubbles during Melody Yang’s Bubblefest performance at the Discovery Cube Orange in Santa Ana on Saturday, March 29, 2025. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Homes north of Tomato Springs and west of Portola Springs Community Center in Irvine, CA, on Monday, March 31, 2025. The homes are in a new area that state officials identified where wildfires are most likely to occur within the next several decades. The area is; north of Portola Parkway, east of Clifford, south of Old Canyon Bee Road and west of Portola Commuity Park. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)