WHAT THE CAMERA SAW / THE WEEK AND MORE

THE AGE OF INNOCENCE

Adults, keep out--because sometimes, kids just want to be left alone to experience their own feelings: uncontainable joy, relentless sorrow or merely gossiping with a friend. A girl is delightfully lost in the swirl of her first Holy Communion Day dress. Above right, Yvonne Walters, 5, standing, and Driana Edwards, 4, shoot the breeze while breaking in new playground equipment at the Los Cerritos YMCA. Six-year-old Jerry Chavez weeps after the shooting of his sisters, who were standing at the doorway to their apartment building.

AND . . . ACTION!

All the world’s a stage, or so it appears when it comes to politics and photo opportunities. Gov. Pete Wilson holds an M-16 rifle, one of 600 received by the Los Angeles Police Department, made possible by the governor’s office of criminal justice planning. Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, in red hard hat, and auxiliary bishops shovel dirt at a ground-blessing ceremony for the site of the new cathedral for Our Lady of the Angels in downtown L.A.