I grew up in Miami, actually Hallandale and Hollywood. I learned to surf at age six on Hallandale Beach. I’m 66 now and still wearing Birdies....

The history of surfing is the history of surfboard design. As boards evolved, so did the imaginations of surfers. You would not have stood on the beach at yet-to-be-ridden Pipeline...

I first met Andrew Kidman in the surf at North Narrabeen on the first day of my first trip to Australia in 1986. I knew no one; I paddled out...

90-year-old Leigh Josephson is a humble man. He is unlikely to tell you that he rode his first wave in Santa Cruz in 1948, or that his surfing buddies included...

Kenny Hurtado bought his first camera after graduating high school in his native Orange County, California in 2001. He focused on surfing, and quickly rose up the ranks, working closely...

“There are people who travel around the world, and there are people who sit in their own backyards. Some of those people who sit in their own backyards visit more...

On a recent day at Malibu, across a head-high right that was velvety smooth and machine-perfect, I watched Allen Sarlo fang off the bottom, bang off the top, fang off...

I grew up on the stories of Drew Kampion, specifically his Don Redondo series in the mid-‘70s, which were psychedelic and shamanistic and super trippy. At age 24, holding a...

Surfer and environmentalist Kona Johnson grew up on the North Shore alongside John, Nathan, and Ivan Florence. He comes from great stock—the Johnsons are some of the world’s finest watermen....

43 years old, hailing from Manchester, England, a surfer/skater/snowboarder, Matt Barr grew up under the influence of the side-stance—and, as he explains below, California. He started his podcast, Looking Sideways,...

Surreal times. We hope you’re doing okay out there. For this installment of Dazzling Blue I reached out to Wingnut. Wingnut has made several appearances on the Birdwell feed in...

When I think about photographs of the great Duke Kahanamoku, I see him standing poolside, or stroking his beautiful flutter kick, or propped up on his forearms post-swim, wet, dark,...

A whole bunch of years ago I worked as the Associate Editor for Waves magazine in Sydney. Waves shared an office with Tracks, Australia’s most irreverent surf magazine. We documented...

Pipeline scares from the water, that’s for sure. But it also scares long before that. For any surf-stoked kid growing up with the myth of the North Shore, there’s an...

Last installment we featured a Q&A with Jeff Divine. For ‘Part 2’ I thought I’d hit him with a big blanket question: What makes for a great photograph? Jeff took...