pic of the day: Massive surf at Waimea Bay
Another image randomly chosen from my surf archives, this is from December the 7th, last year. Waimeawas the biggest, I’ve seen people surf it. Soon after this image, the sun went down right as a new more solid push of the swell occurred, resulting in what was said to be a dozen or so rescues. [...]
Surfing towards the light
It’s round this time of the year ( August ) that the seasons start to change and we see hints of the coming north shore swell season. This image which I entitled Towards the light was taken during a small mid year bump of swell at Rocky lefts. As you can see the sun is [...]
The best unsponsored surfer in the world today
OK folks, I’m sure than many of you lately have seen the incredible talents of pro surfer; Flynn Novak. I’ve been watching this guy for years and he utterly blows doors. Flynn does the most incredible carving manouvers ever, but it’s his awesome ariel skills that have been getting attention lately. I’ve bee seeing Flynn [...]
Genuine real-Deal Waimea Close-Out
This my friends is the dreaded close-out set wave at Waimea Bay. Surfers in the water, dread the very idea of one coming through while they are in the lineup. The spectators of course have a whole different outlook, being safely on land and for the most part, out of harms way. No matter where [...]
The TEN BIGGEST WAVES that I’ve photographed.
Over the course of my career in surf, I’ve been privey to a few landmark sessions over the years. Probably the one that really knocked people’s socks off back in 1998 was the Reef big wave paddle in contest at Todos , which still stands to this day as the biggest waves ever for a [...]
Ultimate Road trip-surf car.
This one comes to you all courtesy of my good buddyJeremy Curtain on King Island. He’s been the proud owner of many a Classic Surf Vehicles over the years, but none quite as impressive as this beast, an early 70′s Holden with a big block V8 chevy engine under the hood and some ridiculously fat [...]
Ltd edition prints of 9 X world surfing champion: Kelly Slater
Folks, my long time friend; pro surfer Pancho Sullivan , right here on the north shore just added a 3rd child to his growing family, another daughter known as kehau. kehau was born with a congenital heart defect and although Pancho has the best health insurance that he can get, the costs are still massive, [...]
The Steamroller
I was looking at some pictures from December’s epic Waimea sessions and this image grabbed my eye. I’ve decided to name the print simply as Steamroller. It was just like a steamroller in that it flattened everything that was in it’s path. These were the biggest waves that I’ve seen people surf at Waimea Bay [...]
Giants fail to deter surfers in quest for perfection
Uh Oh! I’m starting to have flashbacks to that old TV show “Land of the Giants”, but man, the waves are soooooo good, that no one even cared aout the giant dudes.
A perfect dreamy surfing moment
I just wanted to revisit this beautiful dreamy surf moment from a couple of days ago, when there was no wind and it was perfectly blue over the sandbars. Just a total dream session for anyone who was out there for sure. I’ve just added this image to the surf section on my print site. [...]
YLS mag features Davey Photography
I’ve been working behind the scenes for a while now with Adam over at yourlocalsurf.com He’s been putting out his own on- line surf mag for about a year now and I’ve helped him with the last couple of issues. This issue features some of my sequence photography of Teahupoo in Tahiti, right on the [...]
Amazing Visual of the day
Have you ever wondered when you look and see all those surfers sitting there on the surface of the water; “what’s it look like under the water?” Well, this is a view of the reef at Pipeline with the surfers all sitting just feet above the reef. Based on it’s history, this is the most [...]
New: “Classic Waimea” prints now at surfphotosart
I’ve added a new category to my images sets at surfphotosart.com this new one is simply entitled Waimea Bay Classics. There 58 images currently in this section and they represent some of the very best moments that I’ve photographed at Waimea over the past 15 years or so. Many of these are my favourite images. [...]
Classic Davey pictorial about Waimea Bay appears on Surfline
I’ve done some cool pictorials over the years with surfline, but none cooler than this awesome pictorial that just went on line today. It features a staggering array of amazing Waimea visuals, that I’ve photographed from over the years. So many classic moments, from Waimea close-outs, to when they built the road across the beach [...]
Mick Fanning wins the world surfing championship at the Pipe masters
It was an amazing day of surfing at the Pipe Masters. Mick Fanning won his round three heat against young Hawaiian; Torrey Meister, keeping the dream alive, then the ball fell into Joel Parkinson‘s court for his matchup against Hawaiian surfer Gavin Gillette. Joel pretty much had the heat till a couple of minutes to [...]
Awesome day at the Eddie Aikau big wave surfing invitational
Hi all, wow, what a few days, it has been. I slept over at the Rip Curl Off The Wall house the night before the contest because they said the roads would be closed down and I wanted to be right there, where it was all going down. The rumble of the ocean was just [...]
Eddie went at Waimea Bay
Hi all, I’m super slammed here with a backlog of photo “processing” to do from the past few epic days at Waimea Bay, so I won’t dwell here long, but to say that it’s been an amazing couple of days here. I shot crazy huge Waimea yesterday morning for a few hours. It was massive [...]
Every which way but up
A ton of crew have descended on the north shore during the last week and there were so many faces out there today that I didn’t recognise. This was one of them and he wasn’t holding back. Sean
Jamie Obrien bag’s his first BIG Pipe Barrel of the 09-10 season
He caught this ridiculous barrel just half an hour into his surf.
Good times on the north shore
Wow, it’s been so spectacularly beautiful here on the north shore. Such beautiful glassy conditions with pretty consistent 3-5 foot waves. The amazing thing this year is the complete absence so far of traveling surfers. Just a handful of local surfers at any given spot. This must be about as close to the old days [...]
Derek Ho, still a Pipe Master after all these years
Anyone who’s watched the north shore over the past 15 or 20 years will tell you thruthfuly, who the best guys are out at Pipe. One guy that will be on everyone’s list is Derek Ho. He always finds the cleanest most beautiful Pipeline barrels and rides them with absolute ease, grace and supreme balance. [...]
Jamie Obrien’s Season Opener at Pipe
Sep 25th was quite the opening day at the Pipe. The swell had come in mighty strong the night before and ploughed out a decent amount of the sand which so often ruins the early season at Pipe. By daybreak, there were bombs to be had, all be it with weird lumps and double ups [...]
Wipeout of a lifetime
We had our first real day of solid swell for the season, 2 days ago. It was easily the best opening day for Pipeline that I’ve seen. relentless swell through out the night moved a great deal of the sand before daylight, although there was still some pretty heavy backwash and wobble happening out in [...]
Kelly, Joe Derek Red and Eddie, from the vault
A short trip to an islolated farming community island, off the coast of Tasmania, in Australlia, featuring world champion surfer; Kelly Slater, Joe Curren, Derek Hynd and Pearl Jam front man; Eddie Vedder.
