A flock of gulls and black skimmers take flight as a fisherman uses a casting net near a sandbar in the East End Lagoon off Boddeker Road in Galveston. Photo by Jennifer Reynolds

Austen Anderson, left, picks up plastic bottles during a beach clean-up by members of the Mountain Ocean Project at a beach near Seawolf Park in Galveston. Photo by Stuart Villanueva

Woody, one of Alice Anne O’Donell’s two dogs, pauses on the pier of her 10-acre natural habitat surrounding her home on the West End of Galveston. She has provided habitat for marsh grasses and oyster beds along the shoreline. Photo by Jennifer Reynolds

Donovan Jones and Rebecca Peache have been married for 21 years but have performed as a duo for only 10 years. They are world-renowned performers of adagio, striking gravity- and human anatomy-defying poses with and without vocals. They have a studio in downtown Galveston where they train, teach and perform. Photo by Stuart Villanueva

Insect damage gives an old chestnut beam a distressed look. It’s one of several reclaimed beams at The Woodshop of Texas in Texas City that will find new life as a mantel. Photo by Jennifer Reynolds