North Shore Photography was started in 1983, however photographer Bill Romerhaus first started taking photographs and doing darkroom work as a freshman in high school. He has lived in Hawaii for over 45 years. In 1965 he shot his first surfing photo and was a contributing photographer to SURFER and SURFING magazines for several years. From that time until 1983 he worked part time as a studio portrait photographer, color printer, and a military photo hobby shop manager. In 1983 he started North Shore Photography, specializing in black and white professional darkroom services.

He also worked as a contributing photographer to over 30 international surfing magazines and manufacturers, and as a free lance photographer-writer for over 100 publications and agencies worldwide. His photos have credited him with over 200 cover shots and full page advertisements. His work has appeared in POPULAR PHOTOGRAPHY, SURFER, SURFING, HONOLULU, ALOHA, HONOLULU STAR BULLETIN, HONOLULU ADVERTISER, OUTDOOR, OUTSIDE, CONDE NAST TRAVELER, NATIONAL ENQUIRER, UPI, DISCOVERY CHANNEL, and many others. His professional clients have included VOGUE INTERNATIONAL, HILTON HOTELS, CRAZY SHIRTS, ALOHA & HAWAIIAN AIRLINES, NO FEAR GEAR, WARNER BROTHERS PRODUCTIONS, to name a few.

His photo "Paddlers At Avalanche" (Outdoor magazine, Jan. 2000, and Popular Photography, April 2000) and hand colored photo series "Points of View" (published in Aloha Magazine) won first place in the 'best published' photo categories in the 1994 Hawaii Visitors Bureau Travel & Journalism Awards. His last jobs were for the Warner Brothers movie, "The Big Bounce", and the upcoming TV series "Rocky Point" filmed on the North Shore, providing vintage photos of Haleiwa and surfing for background artwork.

Bill is currently represented by Index Stock Imagery (an international stock agency based in New York), Stock Photos Hawaii, and Photo Resource Hawaii. He now specializes in printing historic and nostalgic images of Hawaii (aka Nostalgic Photos Hawaii) from the thousands of photos he has produced and collected as a professional photographer in the past four decades living in Hawaii. In our own way we feel we are contributing to preserving and promoting the history and culture of Hawaii for Kama'aina and visitors to display or share with others all over the world.

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