“If everybody had an ocean across the USA, then everybody’d be surfin’ like Californi-a.” Tom had an intern named Sarah who was from San Clemente, California and grew up surfing. She told him how much she missed it and Tom, ever the adventurous, decided to go with her for a weekend to that surfing area to photograph some of her surfing friends and anyone else he met along the way.

He spent four days travelling from one beach to another photographing people he met, as well as Sarah and her friends. “We met a large family who made the trek to Southern California every year for a week-long surf vacation. They would camp and ride the waves from sun up to sun down.” says Tom. Many of the images are from the family, in particular the young woman with the board on her head, the older grey-bearded man smiling at the camera and the guitar-playing young man. It was a great trip and Sarah loved that her internship with Tom got to fly her home for a long weekend doing what she loved—surfing. See more of Tom’s “Beach Boys and Gals” here and follow @tomhusseyphotography for more updates and stories. Follow us here for new work.