Russel Parker does a handstand on the edge of the diving board at San Lorenzo Valley High after the SCCAL diving championships held there on Thursday. Photo by Robinson Kuntz
Russel Parker does a handstand on the edge of the diving board at San Lorenzo Valley High after the SCCAL diving championships held there on Thursday. Photo by Robinson Kuntz
Athena Muzundar, 10, takes care of her rescue horse Star on Wednesday. Star was the horse that briefly joined the Highway 17 commute earlier this month. (Shmuel Thaler/Sentinel)
Alex Cardenas swings from ring to ring on a new Callaghan Park play structure during the party to celebrate the renovation of the park on Friday, April 23, 2010. Photo by Robinson Kuntz
Benjamin Bratt flashes a smile while in Santa Cruz Friday for the screening of his brother Peter's film "La Mission". (Bill Lovejoy/Santa Cruz Sentinel
Third-graders from Calabasas Elementary pet and feed the goats during a field trip to Wilder Ranch on Wednesday, April 21. Photo by Robinson Kuntz
Photos by Robinson Kuntz/Santa Cruz Sentinel
Celebrated tobacco grower Alejandro Robaina leans against his 1941 Ford truck at his tobacco farm in San Luis, Cuba while entertaining visiting admirers Sentinel photographer Dan Coyro, Getty Images photographer Kevork Djansezian and Associated Press photographer Eric Risberg in December of 1998. The 91-year-old Robaina--easily the most renowned tobacco grower in the world--died at his farm last Saturday. Robaina hoped to someday restore his dilapidated truck.
Dan Coyro's photo from the Lockheed Fire was honored as second place among breaking news photos in California for papers of the Sentinel's circulation size. Fire crews are dwarfed by backburn flames as they defend a fire line against the advancing Lockheed Fire on Molino Creek Farm Rd. Thursday.
This photo won the California Newspaper Publishers Association award for best sports photo of 2009 in the Sentinel's circulation category: Eric Gustafson, of San Francisco looks out from a barrel as he competes in the senior men's division of the California Bodysurfing Championships in Santa Cruz.
Thaler’s photography was also recognized for best photo essay with his profiles of Gail Rich award winners.
A look back: A young Tiger Woods buries his club head in the rough after hitting an errant shot on Pasatiempo's sixth hole during the 1996 Western Intercollegiate. This year's tournament begins tomorrow.