Surf Photographer Blog

Welcome to the blog of COTW featured Californian surf photographer David Pu'u. This page displays the 20 most recent posts from David's blog, you can see the rest on his blog. You can also subscribe to this blog's RSS feed by clicking here:

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Earth Angel

angel |ˈānjəl| noun 1. a spiritual being believed to act as an attendant, agent, or messenger of God. “So let the Earth give testimony.” I was raised in Santa Barbara. Most of my earliest and therefore strongest influences, were based on my native Hawaiian Culture’s perception of man’s place in the world, and the catch all of SB culture’s [...]

Intersection

Tyler Swain and I strode arm in arm, lock step, across the pavers in the foyer of the swank, old, Figueroa Hotel. It was a rainy night in Downtown LA. I was just back from some time away with Shawn Alladio in Oregon and Northern California, and being immersed in watery adventure. Tyler was fresh [...]

The Mavericks Challenge: Ready, Aim, Stand

An Operator’s perspective I am just in the door from Maverick’s. We had quite an adventure up there. This trip I was a part of the K38  Mavericks Water Rescue Team. I joined K38 long ago, on the heels of shooting the 2000 Tow Surfing Championships at Jaws. I realized in the course of my process, that [...]

Silent Running

Interesting lyrics. It is something which I became accustomed to quite early in life, the turning off of daily communications. I grew up alongside an interesting group of people. Many of them have been pretty much the best of the best at every manner of endeavor. I noticed that periodically and regularly, they go silent. The [...]

Swell Five and the Marathon Man

It was o dark thirty on the second day of swell event number five on the Gold Coast, in the middle of the El Nino 2009-2010 season. I was gingerly working my way down the spiral stairway which leads down from the aerie which is the loft bedroom that overlooks one of the beaches I [...]