Rodeo fans arrive at the Cattle Call Arena in Brawley, California for three days of bull riding, calf roping, and clowning.

Lovers embrace at 'Arlington West', a Iraq War memorial on the beaches of Santa Monica, California.

Cowboys wait to ride bulls in the bucking chutes underneath the dignitary seating section.

Skydiving pioneer and investment banker Jacques-André Istel departs the Church on the Hill in Felicity, a town that he founded in a remote California desert.

Wildfires consume southern California, from the Mexican border to Los Angeles. A team of volunteer firefighters (yellow coats) are aided by convicts (orange coats) while attempting to extinguish a forest fire that threatens homes in Newhall.

When summer temperatures hit an unbearable 117 degrees in El Centro, California, fire trucks arrive in the park to keep children cool.

With only a few minutes of sunlight left in the day, a production crew shoots a final scene in the independent film 'Homebound', starring Enrique Castillo, at right, in Danevang, Texas.

Dove hunting season begins at sunrise along the Mexican border in Calexico, California.