Good Vibrations snapshots from the Gulf Coast

 may be referred to as the Third Coast behind the more popular East and West coasts, but we can live writer-at-large Clayton Maxwell for her story “Eye to Eye with the Texas Coast.” Braun knows the area so well, he could find every last curious character and sublime sunset with his eyes closed. For this story, Braun chose from about 250 photographs, some dating back 15 years, that collectively portray a singular personality. “The girl doing the yoga pose on the beach at Surfside, my goto beach in the ’70s, is the same scene I’ve witnessed hundreds of times,” he recounts, “with lots of people and cars parked along the beach for miles and Peter Frampton’s live album playing on the radios. Fashions change and people come and go, but the coast stays exactly the same as the first time you saw it.”