Check out our OC photographers’ favorite images from September 2022

Artist Fred Eversley is seen through one of his parabolic lenses at the Orange County Museum of Art in Costa Mesa, CA. Eversley was a pioneer of the Light and Space movement in art. He is one of five inaugural exhibitions at new location for OCMA. The 53,000 square foot facility is opening at its new home on the campus of the Segerstrom Center for the Arts. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
A U.S. Navy F-35C performs during the Pacific Airshow in Huntington Beach, CA, on Friday, September 30, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Filipe Toledo of San Clemente is carried along the beach after winning his first world championship, beating Italo Ferreira of Brazil, at the Rip Curl WSL Finals at Lower Trestles at San Onofre State Park in San Clemente on Thursday, September 8, 2022. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
UC Irvine students celebrate braking a Guinness World Record for largest game of Red Light, Green Light with 1,415 participants at Aldrich Park on Wednesday, September 21, 2022. The previous record was held by Willamette University in Oregon with 1,223 participants. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Huntington Beach Urban Forest volunteers look through their binoculars as they search for birds during their monthly bird count and survey at Huntington Beach Central Park in Huntington Beach on Thursday, September 22, 2022. The Urban Forest Fall BIRD-A-THON began Thursday morning and ends on Sunday and is an opportunity for the public to spot fall migrating and resident birds while raising funds to protect, enhance and expand bird friendly habitat. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Orange County Sheriff Deputies take part in SWAT tactical training exercises at the old Hall of Administration building in Santa Ana on Wednesday, September 28, 2022. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The U.S. Army Golden Knights skydive during Pacific Airshow in Huntington Beach, CA, on Friday, September 30, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Reese Panganiban and her boyfriend Rendell Ascueta celebrate finishing the Surf City 10 run in Huntington Beach on Sunday, September 25, 2022. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Aerobatic pilot Sammy Mason flys his Edge 540 during the Pacific Airshow in Huntington Beach, CA, on Friday, September 30, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
BlackFly, the world’s first all-electric, fixed-wing, vertical take-off and landing aircraft for personal transportation, performs during the Pacific Airshow in Huntington Beach, CA, on Friday, September 30, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
About 30 people march from Marguerite Avenue and 5th Street to city hall to protest a proposal to dump contaminated sludge into the center of Newport Harbor in Newport Beach, CA, on Tuesday, September 27, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
A Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star, silver jet, an Extra 330sc, yellow plane, a Yak110, double fuselage, a Jet Waco, biplane, an Edge 540, red on top, and a MX2, red and blue, fly over Huntington Beach, CA, in preparation for the Pacific Airshow on Thursday, September 29, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Mater Dei goal keeper Nathan Tauscher makes a save on a shot by Will Schneider (1) of JSerra during a match at JSerra in San Juan Capistrano on Thursday, September 29, 2022. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Artists Sanford Biggers with his work, ‘Of Many Waters…’ at the new Orange County Museum of Art in Costa Mesa, CA, on Wednesday, September 28, 2022. Commissioned for the opening of OCMA’s new building, Of many waters… (2022) is a 24-foot-wide-by-16-foot-tall multimedia outdoor sculpture that operates as a combination and continuation of Biggers’s Chimera, Shimmer, and Codex series. A hybridized figure, the sculpture combines an archetype of a European reclining male figure with a 19th-Century Baule double-face mask assembled from metal sequins. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Mark Margolin, a technical rescue specialist with the OCFA, is hoisted down a fifth-floor elevator shaft during training exercises at the old Hall of Administration in Santa Ana on Wednesday, September 28, 2022. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Visitors to the Orange County Museum of Art walk through the Yvonne de C Segerstrom Gallery during a private event in Costa Mesa, CA, on Tuesday, September 27, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
After 15 years of darkness, the DiscoveryCube is rewired and will remain permanently lit at night. Cars stream past the iconic science center sculpture in Santa Ana on Monday, September 26, 2022. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Robert Covington, left, and John Wall of the Clippers chat before their interview during the Clippers preseason media day at the Honey Training Center in Playa Vista on Monday, September 26, 2022. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Paul George of the Clippers has his photo taken during the Clippers preseason media day at the Honey Training Center in Playa Vista on Monday, September 26, 2022. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Ned Gresham, left, and Oliver Walsh gun it to the finish during the Surf City 10 race in Huntington Beach on Sunday, September 25, 2022. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
A child gets help down the ladder of an Amtrak train after taking a look inside during Rail Safety Week at Fullerton’s Train Museum on Saturday, September 24, 2022. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Saturday, September 24, 2022. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
“Scout” chases a ball thrown by Melissa Cardoza at Capistrano Beach in Dana Point, CA on Friday, September 9, 2022. The remains of Hurricane Kay combined with the morning high tide brought the danger of further erosion to the area. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
A Dodger fan views Tommy Lasorda’s photo at the Tommy Lasorda exhibit at the Fullerton Museum Center as part of their “Picturing America’s Pastime” exhibit in Fullerton on Thursday, September 22, 2022. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Edward Dunvan plays air guitar as Jeanette Reese leads a flash mob class as part of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Cal State Fullerton in Fullerton, CA, on Tuesday, September 20, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Rabbi Reuven Mintz of the Chabad Center for Jewish Life with a shofar in Newport Beach, CA, on Thursday, September 22, 2022. The shofar is an ancient musical horn typically made of a ram’s horn. It’s blown on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
A crow chases a red-tailed hawk as they fly over the Urban Forest at Huntington Beach Central Park in Huntington Beach on Thursday, September 22, 2022. The Urban Forest Fall BIRD-A-THON began Thursday morning and ends on Sunday and is an opportunity for the public to spot fall migrating and resident birds while raising funds to protect, enhance and expand bird friendly habitat. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
With the warm midday sun shining through its wings, a Mexican Amberwing dragonfly rests on a rock in the lake at William R. Mason Regional Park in Irvine on the final day of summer on Wednesday, September 21, 2022. With fall beginning on Thursday, area temperatures will not change with the season as Orange and LA counties will be in the mid-90’s and temperatures will rise past 100 degrees in the Inland Empire. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Women of The Orange County Museum of Art; Lynn Uyeda, new CFO of OCMA, back row from left, Heidi Zuckerman CEO and Director, Kelsey Nemirov, development director, Carrie Maurath, director of sales and events, Meaghan Burger, director of learning and education, Lisa Merage, board member and gala co-chair, – Lucy Sun, incoming Board Chair, Jennifer Segerstrom, gala chair, Jane S. Parry, project executive Clark Construction, Sarah Cain, artist in collection, right. And, seated, Alyssa McDiarmid, general manager of Verdant the museum’s cafe, left, – Crystal Wang, Project architect Morphosis, and Courtenay Finn, Chief Curator, right, on the staircase of their new building in Costa Mesa, CA, on Tuesday, September 20, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
A man sits among the gulls at 1000 Steps Beach in Laguna Beach, CA on Tuesday, September 20, 2022. Temperatures were expected to be in the low-to-mid-80’s for the next week at the beach. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Workers ride a lift to work on the power lines that pass throughTalbert Park in Huntington Beach on Monday, September 19, 2022. The Orange County Power Authority is set to start providing power to residents in Irvine, Huntington Beach, Buena Park and Fullerton starting Oct. 1. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Anastasiia Temirbek of Ukraine is hugged by supporters after her heat at the 2022 International Surfing Association World Surfing Games in Huntington Beach, CA on Monday, September 19, 2022. Surfers representing 51 countries are competing for the title and the chance to add an extra teammate in the 2024 Paris Olympics. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Team USA’s Kirra Pinkerton is cheered by her teammates after her heat at the 2022 International Surfing Association World Surfing Games in Huntington Beach, CA on Monday, September 19, 2022. Surfers representing 51 countries are competing for the title and the chance to add an extra teammate in the 2024 Paris Olympics. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Team USA coaches and supporters cheer on their surfers at the 2022 International Surfing Association World Surfing Games in Huntington Beach, CA on Monday, September 19, 2022. Surfers representing 51 countries are competing for the title and the chance to add an extra teammate in the 2024 Paris Olympics. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Jefferson Malanay, dresses as Sora from Kingdom Hearts, takes a selfie with other cosplayers during the D23 Expo in Anaheim, CA, on Friday, Sept. 9, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Rio Gomez with Reverb Tap Company, practices backstage before performing with her group at the fifth annual National Dance Day event in Costa Mesa on Saturday, September 17, 2022. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Dance works its magic on participants at the fifth annual National Dance Day hosted by Segerstrom Center for the Arts and American Dance Movement in Costa Mesa on Saturday, September 17, 2022. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Laurel Magnet School teachers Kim Thorsen, left, and Kristen Delgado haul their trash to the garbage but not before taking a selfie for the school’s instagram account. They were taking part in the 38th annual California Coastal Cleanup Day at the Brea Creek Channel on Saturday, September 17, 2022. Groups hit parks, lakes, rivers and the ocean. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Jennifer Sbalcio of San Gabriel searches the sand looking for trash during the 38th annual California Coastal Cleanup Day at Huntington State Beach in Huntington Beach on Saturday, September 17, 2022. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Joan and Bill Johnson walk though the lobby of Great Park Ice on their way to watch the Anaheim Ducks’ rookie practice in Irvine, CA, on Thursday, September 15, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Flag bearers celebrate during the opening ceremony for the 2022 International Surfing Association World Surfing Games in Huntington Beach, CA, on Friday, September 16, 2022. countries. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
New Zealand dances perform before their surfers pour sand from Piha and Taranaki beaches during the sand ceremony at the opening ceremony for the 2022 International Surfing Association World Surfing Games in Huntington Beach, CA, on Friday, September 16, 2022. The clear container is filled with sand from all 51 competing countries. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Misha Rios is dressed as Queen of Hearts from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland during the D23 Expo in Anaheim, CA, on Friday, Sept. 9, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
A great egret takes flight after standing in the Santa Ana River in Anaheim as water from recent storms flows by on Friday, September 16, 2022. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Daniel Del Toro with CS Signs, LLC, teeters on the DiscoveryCube’s edge on Wednesday, September 14, 2022 in Santa Ana, as he installs new LED lighting in time for the science center’s fundraising gala. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
A skim boarder rides his board across the flooded section of beach from Tropical Storm Kay at Seal Beach on Saturday, September 10, 2022. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Visitors enter the D23 Expo in Anaheim, CA, on Friday, Sept. 9, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Nasrin Hamidi gets caught in a wave crashing on the boulders at Capistrano Beach in Dana Point, CA on Friday, September 9, 2022. The remains of Hurricane Kay combined with the morning high tide brought the danger of further erosion to the area. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Amazing Grace is played on the bagpipes by Darrell Calvillo of Crestline in remembrance of the people killed in the September 11 attacks at Fairhaven Memorial Park in Santa Ana, on Friday, September 9, 2022, as it holds a 2,200 Steps Walk and ceremony representing the 110 flights of stair firefighters climbed to reach the top of the World Trade Center in New York City. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Filipe Toledo of San Clemente throws his arms into the air after winning his first world championship, beating Italo Ferreira of Brazil at the Rip Curl WSL Finals at Lower Trestles at San Onofre State Park in San Clemente on Thursday, September 8, 2022. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Stephanie Gilmore of Australia, left center, is cheered on by the crowd after winning her eighth world championship, beating Carissa Moore of Hawaii, at the Rip Curl WSL Finals at Lower Trestles at San Onofre State Park in San Clemente on Thursday, September 8, 2022. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Stephanie Gilmore of Australia throws her arms into the air as she wins her eighth world championship, beating Carissa Moore of Hawaii, at the Rip Curl WSL Finals held at Lower Trestles at San Onofre State Park in San Clemente on Thursday, September 8, 2022. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Tatiana Weston-Webb of Brazil surfs during her heat against Stephanie Gilmore of Australia at the Rip Curl WSL Finals at Lower Trestles at San Onofre State Park in San Clemente on Thursday, September 8, 2022. Gilmore went on to win her eighth world championship, beating Carissa Moore of Hawaii in the final. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Italo Ferreira of Brazil gets some big air during his heat at the Rip Curl WSL Finals at Lower Trestles at San Onofre State Park in San Clemente on Thursday, September 8, 2022. Ferreira went on to beat Kanoa Igarashi in the heat and but lost to Filipe Toledo of San Clemente in the final. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Students Aidan Nguyen, Kate Murphy and Tran Trinh, from left, work outside their language arts classroom at Stacey Middle School in Huntington Beach, CA on Wednesday, September 7, 2022. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
McAuliffe Middle School Principal Dr. Ryan Weiss-Wright greets “Piglet” at the school in Los Alamitos, CA on Wednesday, September 7, 2022. Weiss-Wright kissed the pig after students reached their $35,000 goal for a school fundraiser. The total goal is $75,000. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Jackie Peller reads in the shade in San Clemente, CA on Tuesday, September 6, 2022. A heat wave continued to hover over Southern California with temperature in the 90’s in much of Orange County. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
UCLA fans Heather Phillips, left and her mother, Mary Phillips of El Segundo sit in an ice freezer under the stands at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena as they attempt cool off as temperatures rise over 100 degrees during the football game between Bowling Green and UCLA on Saturday, September 3, 2022. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
A UCLA fan pours water over his head as he attempts to stay cool as temperatures rise over 100 degrees during the football game between Bowling Green and UCLA at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on Saturday, September 3, 2022. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
As Bowling Green’s Cashius Howell, left, gets blocked by UCLA’s Raiqwon O’Neal, UCLA’s quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson, right, runs up the field for a touchdown against Bowling Green during the first half at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on Saturday, September 3, 2022. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Edwin Morales takes a water break while pushing his ice cream and snack cart around Riverside, CA on Friday, September 2, 2022. Temperatures were expected to be over 106 degrees through Monday. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The Bicentennial Mural on the spillway of the Prado Dam in Corona, CA, on Wednesday, August 31, 2022. Ron Kammeye created the mural in the 1970s. After a long legal battle, organizers are planning to start the restoration of the “200 Years of Freedom” bicentennial mural visible to drivers on the eastbound 91 Freeway. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Mural designer Ron Kammeyer stands in front of the bicentennial mural he created in the 1970s for the Prado Dam spillway in Corona, CA, on Wednesday, August 31, 2022. Kammeyer is helping to restore the mural. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

We asked our photographers to pick their favorite moments from September 2022, and here are some they selected.

From surf competitions to an airshow to the preparations for a new art museum, Orange County was busy with events in September.

With the Pacific Ocean and the Huntington Beach Pier in the backdrop, after marching down Main Street proudly waving their country flags, about 250 surfers came together to mix the grains from their local beaches during the “Sands of the World” opening ceremony of the ISA World Surfing Games. It is the first time the event has been held in Surf City since 2006.

The eight-day, Olympic-style competition brought wave riders from 50 countries, including well-known surfing regions such as Australia, and places not known for their surf scene such as Saudi Arabia.

Over in Costa Mesa, where the Segerstrom family once grew lima beans, the Orange County Museum of Art prepared to unveiled its new home with some sneak peeks at the $94 million, world-class building designed by global architectural firm Morphosis. Inside, floating bridges connect different levels and spaces like something out of a modern Hogwarts castle, and a glass-enclosed education pavilion with stadium seating (“You have never been in a classroom like this,” said Brandon Welling, partner-in-charge of the project for Morphosis) will be the site for talks, films and lectures.

During the 24-hour party starting at 5 p.m. Oct. 8, there will be dancing, art-making, movies, fireworks, and even — if you can make it to 3 a.m. — fortune-telling and tarot-card-reading in the galleries themselves.

Back in Huntington Beach, the Pacific Airshow roared to a start at the end of the month. The aerial performers came from near and far to wow the crowds. Among the pilots taking to the sky over the weekend was Matt Hall, former top gun fighter pilot with the Royal Australian Air Force and reigning Red Bull Air Race World Champion.

President of Lyon Air Museum Mark Foster said the show allows the museum to showcase gems such its B-25 Mitchell bomber used during World War II.

Seeing some of the new, sleek military jets is a larger-than-life experience, but also including the vintage planes is a chance to educate the younger generation about the aircraft of the past. They may even be inspired, Foster said, whether they are into math or engineering or flying the planes – many paths can lead to the sky.

Check out the photos and follow The Orange County Register on Facebook and Instagram. Here are our staff photographers’ individual pages: Paul Bersebach, Jeff Gritchen, Leonard Ortiz, Mark Rightmire, and Mindy Schauer.

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