Extra Frames is a monthly compilation of images captured by Long Beach Post photographers that are, well, extra. The photos were not used in a story for one reason or another but are too good to simply fade into obscurity and languish in the archives, forever unpublished.

Long Beach Mayor Rex Richarson attends as officials unveil a deployment of 33 human-operated, zero-emissions battery-electric cargo-handling yard tractors aty the Port of Long Beach in Long Beach , Wednesday Nov. 29, 2023. Photo by Thomas R. Cordova.
Lions Lighthouse is reflected in Queensway Bay in Downtown Long Beach Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. Photo by Brandon Richardson.
Two men walk through the civic center at city hall in Long Beach, Wednesday Nov. 29, 2023. Photo by Thomas R. Cordova.
Oil Patch Liquor sits permanently shuttered in Signal Hill Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. Photo by Brandon Richardson.
A bicyclist zooms along the beach bike path on Thursday Nov. 23, 2023. Photo by Thomas R. Cordova.
Seiji Steimetz, interim associate dean of the School of Liberal Arts at CSULB, speaks during the Accelerate Long Beach economic forum in Downtown Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. Photo by Brandon Richardson.
A Southwest Airlines plane makes its final approach into Long Beach Airport Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. Photo by Brandon Richardson.
Cars drive down Alamitos Avenue at Third Street as the sun sets on Long Beach Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. Photo by Brandon Richardson.
A boat sails by International City Tower, left, Shoreline Gateway, center, and the Villa Riviera Downtown Long Beach Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. Photo by Brandon Richardson.
The cross atop Our Lady of Refuge Catholic church at the intersection of Clark Avenue, Los Coyotes Diagonal and Stearns Street in Long Beach Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. Photo by Brandon Richardson.

Brandon Richardson is a reporter and photojournalist for the Long Beach Post and Long Beach Business Journal.