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 where he was sports editor for the school paper four years. He has lived in Hawaii for over 50 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 he worked part time as a studio portrait photographer, color printer, a military photo hobby shop manager, the Hawaiian Telephone Company, and then for 20 years as a senior facilities mechanic at a Satellite tracking station (COMSAT- founded by science fiction writer Arthur C. Clark) overlooking Sunset Beach on Oahu's north shore. In 1983 he started North Shore Photography, specializing in black and white professional darkroom services, while continuing to work, and then went into the photography full time in 1989.

        He also worked as a contributing photographer to over 30 international surfing magazines and manufacturers, and as a free lance photographer-writer (photojournalist) for over 100 publications and agencies worldwide. His photos have credited him with over 200 cover shots and full page advertisements all over the world. His work has appeared in POPULAR PHOTOGRAPHY, SURFER, SURFING, HONOLULU, ALOHA, HONOLULU STAR BULLETIN, HONOLULU ADVERTISER, OUTDOOR, OUTSIDE, CONDE NAST TRAVELER, NATIONAL ENQUIRER, UPI, and many other publications. His professional clients have included AMERICAN EXPRESS, BURTON CLOTHING, VOGUE INTERNATIONAL, HILTON HOTELS, CRAZY SHIRTS, ALOHA & HAWAIIAN AIRLINES, NO FEAR GEAR, DISCOVERY, HISTORY, CBS, CNN, HISTORY & A&E CHANNELS, UNIVERSAL PICTURES, and 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 recently published photo history book: "Haleiwa: A Pictorial History" won the 2008 Hawaii Historic Society's Honorary Best Published Historic Publication Award, and the Haleiwa Chamber of Commerce 2008 Malama Ana Award. His last jobs were for the Warner Brothers movie, "The Big Bounce", the TV series pilot "Rocky Point", Universal Pictures, "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" , filmed on the North Shore, providing vintage photos of Haleiwa and surfing for background artwork, and mot recently "The Cleaner" for CBS/A&E Networks.

        Bill is currently represented by Index Stock Imagery (an international stock agency based in New York), Art Hawaii (a division of Pictures Plus in Honolulu). 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, and sells his work in over 40 galleries and retail stores on Oahu, on e-Bay, and his website.

        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.

        We try to be accurate with dates and information about the images, but please be aware that we are not historical experts on every topic. It is not our intent to provide inaccurate caption information. Many times, however, the information about, written on the original , or the reference sources may not be accurate, conflicting, or lost. If you have any corrections, information, inquiries, or would like to order larger prints up to 40 x 60 inches please contact us.