Hook up surfing waikiki

Welcome to Waikiki

It moves the same way, the old up-down-up-down of passing waves,. Above and below are the same blackness with dancing light streaks. We are passing ships in the night. The light of Waikiki plays like a movie and the waves are the screen. This is an action movie full of bromance and artful wonder. We are twinkling from the light of stars and parking cars. All the lights around blur into long streaks as the water swells up into a wall and curls over on itself. This is where we want to be. Right in the center of that curl of streaking light and black water.

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I called John Hook at the end of May. Oh the heart yearned. His images took me back to a little stretch of Town. Not Queens or Waikiki proper—but the Rockpiles and Bowls reefs to the west. Being terribly introverted, I relished the dusk hours as the city slid into darkness and the waves shed their crowds. Hook, in a far more social and healthy way, also sought joy in the night.

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Customer Support. Waikiki, Honolulu, Oahu, HI. Sheraton Waikiki Beach Resort.

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The Ins & Outs of Town

Most photographers would be content to line the two up, press the shutter button, and be done with it. Not Tommy Pierucki, though. One such series is his take on the classic analogue technique of double exposing a single frame of film, layering two different images over each other to tell more a story. For me though, when I caught my first wave at Baby Queens twenty something odd years ago my heart just fell in love with Waikiki and the South Shore. The surf scene and community that you document appears broad and inclusive, if not actually weighted in favour of female surfers.

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