We find community members flourish inside purposeful ‘Group Spaces’ organized in defined exclusive ‘open channels’ of communication?
Members are searching for and seeking a ‘Space’ to belong too. A space of their choosing, secure and the freedom exercise some form of control.
How does a moment in time or a memory last a lifetime?
📸 HB Surf Photos • August 10, 2026
Today’s HB Surf Photos Surf Report
is a little different from the SURFCHECK now 'Surfline.' we did reporting the Taco Bell Reef to HB Cliff surf reports I did in the 1990 into the 2000's.The ocean has always had a way of keeping memories tied to places, people, waves and particular moments in time.
photo credit: Donavon logtime HB Surf Photo surf photgrapher
🎙️ HB SURF PHOTOS AUDIO CARD
For Dan O’
🌊 Today’s Surf Report
Huntington Beach continues doing what Huntington Beach does: moving water, changing sandbars, shifting swell and creating moments that may only exist for a few seconds.
A surf report can tell us the swell, tide, wind and conditions. A photograph tells us something different.
It tells us who was there.
📸 The Missing Surfers
Sitting in the HB Surf Photos archive are roughly two terabytes of photographs accumulated over years of shooting surfers from atop the Huntington Beach Cliffs and around our local coastline.
Many of those photographs have never been claimed.
Somewhere in that archive are surfers who paddled out, caught a wave, went home and never knew somebody standing on the cliff captured that moment.
I call them Missing Surfers.
My goal now is simple: find them.
If you recognize yourself, a brother, sister, parent, child, friend or an old member of the Huntington Beach surf community in one of these photographs, reach out.
Let's get the photograph back where it belongs.
🌺 More Than a Surf Photo
Some photographs become more important with time.
They become family stories, remembrance cards, audio postcards, and little markers showing that somebody was here — on this beach, on this wave, on this particular day.
That’s what this one is about.
For my big brother.
Danny O’Toole — Dan O’.
🏄 Are You One of the Missing Surfers?
HB Surf Photos is working through more than two terabytes of Huntington Beach surf photography that has never made its way back to the surfers in the photographs.
Recognize somebody? Send them this page.
Sometimes reconnecting a photograph only takes one person saying: “Hey — I know that guy.”