2024 in images - Orange County Register

YEAR IN REVIEW

2024 in images

Take a look back through the lenses of The OC Register’s staff photographers

Aidan Thomas wears a Smokey Bear T-shirt as he watches smoke from the Airport fire rise behind Meander Lane in Trabuco Canyon on Sept. 9. The fire burned about 23,500 acres. Jeff Gritchen — Staff Photographer

A bald eagle sits in a nest high in a tree close to its eaglet in northern Orange County on March 18. Mark Rightmire Staff Photographer

Louise Vandertuuk rides her plastic horse on Jan. 1 during the Surf City Splash, an annual ocean plunge in Huntington Beach to celebrate the new year. Mindy Schauer Staff Photographer

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Our photographers worked hard the last 12 months to tell the story of Orange County through their lens.

The light moments, the moments people will remember for a lifetime, the moments that made our community special; we asked our photographers to look back at 2024 and pick some of their favorite images that captured life in Orange County.

Here are some of the images we think back to, and check out even more of the photographers’ favorites and the moments we will remember on Page A3.

Happy New Year!