Total Bliss salon manager Roza Rojano offers a room for Fatima Panju to have her hair cut in private. Picture: KIRK GILMOUR
Police stand guard over a man arrested in Fairy Meadow on January 9. Picture: KIRK GILMOUR
Sand sculpter Steve Machell on North Beach as a thunder storm rolls in on January 22. Picture: ADAM McLEAN
The Wollongong Breakwater Lighthouse stands in the path of a huge wave on January 29. Picture: ROBERT PEET
Joan Johnson takes a dip in a Kiama rock pool as clouds gather on February 16. Picture: ORLANDO CHIODO
Volunteers release a green turtle into the ocean after it was caught in Lake Illawarra on February 12. Picture: ANDY ZAKELI
A swimmer watches the sun rise from Austinmer pool on the last day of summer. Picture: KIRK GILMOUR
On March 10, crowds cluster in the shade of trees at Hindmarsh Park for the Kiama Jazz and Blues Festival. Picture: ROBERT PEET
The scene of the March 21 helicopter crash outside Panorama House at Bulli Tops. Picture: ANDY ZAKELI
A lone fisherman wades in Lake illawarra searching for octopus on April 2. Picture: ANDY ZAKELI
Surfer Daniel Brilsky takes to the surf in Shellharbour on April 7. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Ebony with her great-grandfather, Fred Gregory, and mother Kelly Gallagher on Anzac Day. Picture: GREG TOTMAN
Marshall Mount Old Time Dances celebrates 60 years of Boston two-steps in April. Picture: ADAM McLEAN
Big surf at Oilies, South of Wollongong's City Beach, on June 3. Picture: ORLANDO CHIODO
NSW skipper Paul Gallen and Maroons forward Nate Myles come to blows in the Origin opener on June 5. Picture: ADAM McLEAN
In July, acute anorexia patient Tara Powell shared her story in a brave bid for help. Picture: ANDY ZAKELI
Cass Nascimento in her bedroom on August 15 after starting oncothermia therapy. Picture: ORLANDO CHIODO
The Romashov Troupe perfects their moves at Michael Edgley's Great Moscow Circus on August 16. Picture: ROBERT PEET
University Underwater Hockey Club players Eden Brown and Phil Ackerman in August. Picture: KIRK GILMOUR
Port Kembla stack was lit up to give a glimpse of the structure's possible future on August 20. Picture: GREG TOTMAN
Friends and family pay their last respects to Chief Inspector Graeme Donnelly on August 26. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Anastasia Homitskaya of the Imperial Russian Ballet at Belmore Basin on September 9. Pictures: ROBERT PEET
Kids enjoy the amusement rides at the Bulli Show on September 15. Picture: ADAM McLEAN
Surfer Jada Thomas at the Farm in September, preparing to defend her national surfing title. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Leaf reader Suzi van Middelkoop at the Ravensthorpe Mad Hatter's Tea Party on September 15. Picture: GREG TOTMAN
Papa Mitu, a Cotton-top Tamarin, with his two-week-old babies on his back at Symbio on September 18. Picture: ROBERT PEET
Picture: GREG TOTMAN
Sonny Bill Williams celebrates the Roosters' grand final win against the Sea Eagles on October 6. Picture: ADAM McLEAN
The big swell had surfers in surf heaven at Austinmer Beach on October 25. Picture: KIRK GILMOUR
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Picture: ORLANDO CHIODO
Wollongong High graduates Mitchell Mahony and Elisha Chin are cast in Grease in October. Picture: ORLANDO CHIODO
Sarah Bell escapes the heat at North Beach on October 10. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
A water bombing helicopter at Yanderra during the October bushfires. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Shellharbour bowler Dave Drajovic gets the wicket LBW of Albion Park's Hayden McKay on November 2. Picture: GREG TOTMAN
Horacio Rodriguez watches son Jordan play at Cordeaux Heights’ Todd Park on November 7. Picture: CHRISTOPHER CHAN
Hollie Rizzotto and her daughter are refused a transfer out of Todd Street units on November 12. Picture: CHRISTOPHER CHAN
The funeral service of Cassandra Nascimento at St John’s Catholic Church on November 14. Picture: CHRISTOPHER CHAN
Bellambi Public School goes all out for National Recycling Week on November 14. Picture: CHRISTOPHER CHAN
Surfing off Flagstaff Hill in November. Picture: CHRISTOPHER CHAN
Illawarra Mercury photographers have pulled together their standout pictures from the past 12 months to tell a visual story of life in the Illawarra in 2013.
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Pictorial editor Kirk Gilmour, along with photographers Christopher Chan, Orlando Chiodo, Sylvia Liber, Adam McLean, Robert Peet, Greg Totman and Andy Zakeli, would like to wish readers a happy and creative 2014.
For more evocative images, visit the photography team's Facebook page.
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