Shmuel Thaler

A bird wings by as the waxing moon rises over Santa Cruz on Friday. Oct.’s famous Harvest Moon — the first of three supermoons of 2025 — will be the first full moon of autumn when it rises on…

A surfer catches a ride late Monday afternoon as a southwest swell poured into the Santa Cruz County coastline near Getchell Street in Santa Cruz. The forecast is for large clean faces for Thursday…

A sunflower placed by a passerby graces an 1898 sculpture in Kraków, Poland’s Rynek Glówny (Main Market Square) on Monday by artist Teodor Rygier of Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz.

A visitor to Sunny Cove makes their way down stairs from Geoffroy Drive to the beach near the end of 17th Avenue in Live Oak. According to the geographical dictionary “Santa Cruz County Place Names…

Midday light creates shadows as a surfer heads up the stairs after a session at Steamer Lane. New stairs and a stainless steel railing were created in 2022 by Tom Ralston Concrete to replace a stai…

Photo | A love of art

The production, directed by Rebecca Haley Clark and starring Corey Jones as Sam, Nick Rossi as Hally and Elliot Sagay as Willy, opens Friday night and finishes its run with matinee and evening perf…

Sausalito-based nonprofit Call of the Sea’s wooden ship the Matthew Turner sat at anchor Tuesday morning off the fog-shrouded Santa Cruz County coastline.

In a game as old as visits to the seashore themselves, a youngster tries to outrun an incoming wave at Main Beach on a recent afternoon.

“A Feast of Flowers,” a ceramic installation by artist Jenni Ward, rises above Segment 7 of the Coastal Rail Trail near the corner of California and Bay streets in Santa Cruz. Originall…