A-frame

Aaberg, Denny

Aaberg, Kemp

Abberton, Koby

Abbruzzi, Sid

Abellira, Reno

Abubo, Megan

academia and surfing

Adler, Tom

advertising and surfing

Aeder, Erik

aerial

Aguerre, Fernando

Aichner, Scott

Aikau, Clyde

Aikau, Eddie

Aipa, Ben

air-drop

airbrush

Airshow

Ala Moana

Alabama

alaia board

Alaska

alcohol and surfing

Alexander, Kala

Alexandre, João (Dapin)

Allen, Chuck

Alms, Paige

aloha shirt

Alter, Hobie

Alvarez, Pepe

Ancell, Kevin

Andaman Islands

Andersen, Lisa

Anderson, Craig

Anderson, Simon

Andino, Kolohe

Angel, Jose

angle

Angola

Angourie

Antarctica

Apocalypse Now

Arabian Sea

Aragon, Janice

Arakawa, Eric

Archbold, Matt

Arena, Eduardo

Ashton, Juan

Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP)

Atlantic Ocean

August, Robert

Aurness, Rolf

Auster, Ken

Australia

Avalon, Frankie

Azores

backdoor

backside

backside attack, Pipeline

backwash

bail out

Bain, Rob

Baja California

Baker, Bernie

Baker, Grant “Twiggy”

Baker, Tim

Bali

Ball, John “Doc”

Ballard, Bill

Ballard, Rochelle

balsa

Baltic Sea

Banks, Jim

Barbados

Barilotti, Steve

Barland, Michel

Barreda, Sergio “Gordo”

Barry, Michael

Bartholomew, Wayne

Baxter, Jackie

Bay of Bengal

Beach Boys, The

Beacham, Debbie

beachboys

beachbreak

Beachcomber Bills Grand Prix

Beachley, Layne

beavertail

Becker, Phil

Bedford-Brown, Stuart

Belgium

Bells Beach

Bendall, Ma and Pa

Bennett, Barry

Benson, Becky

Benson, Blanche

Benson, Linda

Bermuda

Versatile California-born photographer, heralded in the 1970s for his tight-angle water shots taken mostly on the North Shore of Oahu. Wilkings was born (1946) in Hollywood, California, raised in Hermosa Beach, began surfing in 1958 and taking photographs in 1964. Original surf photographer LeRoy Grannis, also from Hermosa, was Wilkings' informal mentor. He became a 

 staff photographer in 1971, after receiving a B.F.A. in photography from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and moving to Hawaii.

Wilkings' mission was to bring the viewer closer than ever before to the powerful North Shore surf—Pipeline was a favorite haunt—doing so at times by floating up the wave just as the tube poured overhead. In 1976 Wilkings bolted a waterproof camera to the tail section of a surfboard, and by following the action from the beach and releasing the shutter with a remote control unit as the rider disappeared into the tube, he captured the first behind-the-surfer view of a tuberide.

Wilkings was a senior staff photographer at 

 until 1980; he continued living in Hawaii, working for the most part as a freelance watersports photographer. His photographs have appeared in 

; he's also contributed to more than a half-dozen illustrated surfing books, including 

Since 2007, Wilkings has been the photo editor at the Surfing Heritage and Culture Center in San Clemente, California, putting him charge of the word's largest collection of historical surf images. In 2012, Wilkings was inducted to the Hermosa Beach Surfers Walk of Fame.

Wilkings, Steve

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