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a story for one reason or another but are too good to simply fade into obscurity and languish in the archives, forever unpublished.

Relationship and trauma therapist Junie Abito sits inside one of her Long Beach offices Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022.
Resident Eric Curatola reacts as he holds his child on the fifth floor of a high-rise building as firefighters respond to a blaze in the building at Fourth Street and Atlantic Avenue on Friday, Oct. 14, 2022. The fire started just before 11:30 a.m. on the 6th floor of the seven-story building. More than a dozen Long Beach Fire Department units responded to the blaze. They were able to douse the flames within 10 minutes of arriving, according to the LBFD. Photo by Thomas R. Cordova.
Andrea Howard, 30, shields her son, Cub Iverson, 3, from the sun during an elderberry syrup making class in Long Beach Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022. Photo by Brandon Richardson. 
Long Beach police investigate the fatal attack in a string of stabbings that started on Atlantic Avenue in Long Beach on Monday, Oct. 17, 2022. A 21-year-old Long Beach man was arrested on Alamitos Beach after a string of stabbings that left one person dead and multiple others wounded at crime scenes that stretched from Anaheim Street to the beach bike path Monday morning. Photo by Thomas R. Cordova.
Sam, 12, smiles after successfully stealing a treat before his owner Richard Langston could stop him during a visit to the newly opened Pet Food Express at 5265 E. Second St. in Long Beach’s Belmont Shore neighborhood Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. Photo by Brandon Richardson.
A Long Beach firefighter looks over the fifth floor after flames and smoke choked the fifth and sixth floors of an apartment building as firefighters respond to a blaze in the building at Fourth Street and Atlantic Avenue on Friday, Oct. 14, 2022. The fire started just before 11:30 a.m. on the sixth floor of the seven-story building. More than a dozen Long Beach Fire Department units responded to the blaze. They were able to douse the flames within 10 minutes of arriving, according to the LBFD. Photo by Thomas R. Cordova.
A Pet Food Express employee tells Richard Langston about a deal on treats for his dog Sam, 12, inside the new location at 5265 E. Second Street in Belmont Shore Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. Photo by Brandon Richardson.