On my mind
Well folks, usually I’m on my way to Australia right about this time of the year and usually, I end up at this very special little island in Bass Strait. I’ve been going there for many years, Seems that if I make it there this year, it’ll be a little later [...]
Surfboard Porn
My long time friend Kye Fitzgerald, son of the Great Terry Fitzgerald is a really, really good single fin surfer like his dad and he visited over the past couple of weeks. Under his arm, he had the most amazing quiver of single fin surfboards that you could imagine. Take a [...]
Aloha Jam – Kehau Sullivan Benefit, a great time for all.
Last night’s Aloha Jam, for the benefit of Kehau Sullivan was a great time had by all. Pancho’s whole family came along to enjoy and were so well received by everybody. There sure was a lot of Aloha in the house last night. I only took a little “point and [...]
Big Music Jam TONIGHT, Mar 5th for Kehau Sullivan at the Hard Rock Cafe, Honolulu
One of Hawaii’s favourite surfing sons; Pancho Sullivan has a beautiful family of 3 kids with his wife Haunani, however their youngest daughter Kehau was born with a heart defect and requires a series of expensive open heart surgeries. Although Pancho is a very responsible family guy and has what he thought was bullet-proof [...]
Mural March. Chance to save big on big prints.
O.K. folks. It’s Mural March and that means all Mural prints with a ticket price of more than $600 have a huge 20% pre shipping discount applied to them. There is no limit on how many, but the offer does run out at the end of this month, so if you’ve been thinking [...]
Epic short lived Pipe Session.
Well folks, it sure has been a weird old week here on the north shore. It started out with the tsunami threat which most folks took quite seriously indeed. Ever since that day, it’s been howling trade winds at varying degrees of knots between 20 and 50. Pretty [...]
Epic Sunset Beach a few days ago
I was surprised to stumble upon pretty good quality surf at Sunset a few days ago. It’s taken me till now to get a clip together. Enjoy!
Aloha
Sean
Epic Sunset Beach
Hawaii’s Tsunami threat now over
Just about all of you know about the Chilian earthquakewhich occured last night and the resulting tsunami threat which had
all of Hawaii on full alert till well into the afternoon. I started the day out being woken by about a dozen tourists packing all their stuff into their cars out in the parking [...]
Uh Oh, looks like a legitimate Tsunami coming for Hawaii
We woke very early this morning to tourists scrambling to get their stuff packed into cars and out of here. A massive earthquake in Chili last night was called a Super-Quake. Apparently they only happen in the world like 0.3 times a year, which is one every 3 years in the entire world. [...]
Kye Fitz’ shows his single fin flair on the north shore
Kye Fitzgerald
is the son of Aussie 70’s legend Sean Davey
Terry Fitzgerald, also known as the Sultan of speed back in the day. Terry was widely respected for his surfing at places like Sunset where speed is an advantage. Like his dad, Kye is also an avid single fin surfer [...]
Surf/skate legend Jay Adams
I’ve been doing a bit of filming on and off lately . I was shooting some stuff at Off The Wall yesterday morning when I saw skate legend; Jay Adams get this tasty little wave
tasty little wave on which he showed some cool body language. Check it out here!
Picture of the day; Pipe Turtle
This was the very first ever picture that I made of a turtle. I was swimming at Pipeline one day and noticed this turtle cruising by and so I dove down and squeezed off just one fabulous frame of fujichrome Velvia. This is still one of my favorite Turtle images, despite that fact [...]
Bodysurfing with Keith Malloy.
As many of you know, I’ve been spending a fair bit of time, swimming on the Pupukea sandbars lately and photographing the amazing conditions. I was out there yesterday and met up my old buddy Keith Malloy, who was out enjoying the perfect bodysurfing conditions. Keith of course is a great [...]
Early Gold
Another of my portraits, this one more of an environmental portrait in the truest sense really. My friend James Romero, out for an early surf with the rising sun, last year at Monster Mush, in the middle of summer. I just like the cruisy relaxed vibe that [...]
Poker Eyes
I’ve been preparing a bunch of images these past few days to enter into the now very prestigious
RedBull illume. I know that the competition is going to be very, very intense this year, to win this event, so I’m not by any means, getting my hopes up. Just simply entering [...]
“Waimea Power” nets another double
As many of you know, it’s been an amazing season here for really big surf. One of my favourite images from the recent big swell episodes was one such image that I captured late in the day before the Eddie ran. This picture of several surfers just [...]
North shore sand bars light up again for 2 day marathon
It seems that the picture which I posted yesterday morning, entitled; AquaBlade was a bit of a omen, but in a good sense. That is exactly how the sandbars at Pupukea have been looking for the past 2 days, here on the north shore. The water has been absolutely [...]
PIcture of the day: AquaBlade
Today, I’m featuring one of my current top selling images. This particular image has yielded 2 recent print orders as well as a print sale through my agent WaveRiders gallery
gallery recently.
Around this time of the year, when the swells get a little smaller and more organised, the [...]
SUP to da max! until it got too big anyway
The SUP crew ( Stand Up Paddle surfers ) held a contest at Sunset Beach a few days ago and it was pretty border line on weather anyone really should have been out there. A very large west swell pushed the take off zone well over to Kammies which made for some interesting [...]
New Surf book features Davey image for cover
One of my Californian friends Ryan Smith just brought out a new book called Planet Surf. The book features a fair bit of my imagery, but the best part of course is the actual cover, itself.
Sean
Pipe shines with an all star crew
As many Pipe specialists will tell you; It’s been a great season unless riding the Pipe is your gig. If that’s the case, this has been probably the most frustrating of seasons for the Pipe surfer. We’ve had pumping swellpretty much since late August and the only real
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.
Davey’s Wavey Gravy. Get your’s today
Waves have always been a major target in my viewfinder.
My very first photo was of a Wave, way back in 1977.
I’ve been building my collection of wave images for somewhere like 25 years now. These images here represent just a handful of the entire collection, but they are some [...]
Amazing image of the day
It is always my intent to keep this website not only informative and a great destination for surf photography and all things ocean related, but also to keep it entertaining for my many repeat visitors, who keep coming back to see what I’ve been up to, time and time again. Todays little [...]
