Uncle Val Ching Jr., The Living Link to Surfing’s High Performance Roots by Cher Pendarvis It’s a joy to do something nice to honor someone so kind. . . Sincere thanks to Uncle Val for sharing his important stories and wisdom, and to Joey, Nakoa, Tom Henry, Adam, John, Wallace, Jack, Nick, Tom Pohaku, Jeff and to […]
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I Love Fish, Blue. #10
“I Love Fish” is the theme for Blue. #10. The article about San Diego shapers was beautifully penned and photographed by Takashi Tomita and features Skip Frye, Bob Mitsven, Hank Warner, Chris Christenson, Larry Mabile, Mike Hynson, Jeff McCallum, Steve Pendarvis, and Josh Hall. Aloha! Check the Blue. web site for the current issue and back […]
Craftswoman and Artist story, Blue. #25
We were honored to have Takashi and Junko Tomita come visit and take pictures and do an interview with us awhile back. Here is the beautiful story in the Craftsmanship issue, Blue #25. We are blessed to be featured in such a beautiful publication. So stoked! Thank you. Arigato. Cher and Steve Blue. web site
The Surfer’s Path #79 and Skip Frye
Andrew Smith penned a terrific article “Expanding the Field, in the Connection Sector with Skip Frye” for The Surfer’s Path and I was honored to support his story by shooting portraits of Skip shaping. The portraits are shot with a 1950s medium format film camera using black-and-white film and a digital SLR was used for […]
Kurungabaa! interview by Jamie Watson
A Journal of literature, history and ideas from the sea, Kurungabaa is non-profit publication published quarterly by the generosity of subscribers and donors. This issue is filled with wonderful essays, interviews, photographs and poetry. In 2009, I was touched and honored when Jamie Watson asked if she could interview me (thank you, Jamie). Jamie is a […]
Published Photography in The Surfer’s Path #78 and #75
We have long appreciated The Surfer’s Path for its editorial content and beauty. The current issue of The Surfer’s Path (#78, June/July 2010) features a great article by Andrew Smith about the talented surfer-shaper Daniel Thomson, titled Of Chance and Choosing. Cher appreciated shooting portraits of Daniel with his boards and shaping to accompany the […]
Flex in The Surfer’s Journal, Vol 18, No.4-Summer 09
Soundings VI: A Question of Flex Interviews and Portraits by Devon Howard and Andrew Kidman This text is excerpted from the contents on the TSJ web page for the issue: Like the weather, if seems that while everybody talks about flex nobody does anything about it. That’s been our read anyway. We gathered a Genius Congress […]
