Spotlight: Big-Wave Female Photographers of Hawaii Go behind the lens with the women photogs of Red Bull Magnitude Christa Funk, getting the shot at Pipeline. Photo: Mike Latronic Dashel Pierson Link copied to clipboard Good news and bad news. First, the bad: the COVID-19 pandemic has toppled the traditional competitive season in Hawaii this winter. And the good? A seemingly endless run of swell has kept the Hawaiian Islands cranking for weeks on end. And the bad news isn’t really that bad, because, despite these unprecedented times and the lack of a “normal” winter, many events have pivoted into something special and fresh, and some new ones have cropped up, too. Like the Red Bull Magnitude event – an all-women, all-digital big-wave competition offering a prize purse of $40,000 for the top charging waterwomen in Hawaii during the course of the winter.