The sun sets over West Cliff on Oct. 26 as around 100 participants make their way from Lighthouse Point to Natural Bridges in a witches walk.

A surfer enters the “green room” at Steamer Lane on a Tuesday in September as a quartet of pelicans glides by overhead.

A dramatic cloudscape rises above the East Meadow at UC Santa Cruz on March 23 as a cyclist heads down Hagar Drive.

Cowell Beach in Santa Cruz acts as a canvas for Santa Cruz-based and internationally renowned artists Jim Denevan and son Brighton Denevan as their sand art titled “The Pyramids” nears completion in September. More than 300 volunteers helped the pair create the playful and literal homage to the Great Pyramid in Giza, Egypt, as part of Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History’s CommonGround festival.

Annabelle “Wrecking Belle” Hardy works on her form during practice in Scotts Valley in June. Hardy speeds around the track each bout as one of the jammers for the national champion Santa Cruz Derby Groms.