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Davey Art in The Grafik Museum

admin — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:31:37 +0000

My mate Dan over at the Grafik Museum, loves it when I throw a new batch of images at him. Check it out…

The Grafik Museum

New Davey art showing at the Canon Gallery, Honolulu

admin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:49:15 +0000

I have a new art show coming up at the prestigious Canon Gallery in Honolulu throughout the month of November. The show, entitled “The north Shore in Black and White” features a series of some of my favourite black and white creations of the north shore. The show will run from the 2nd to the 25th of November and the opening reception will happen between 11am and 1 pm. There will free pupus and refreshments. Also for those interested, I am offering pre show limited editions of 11x 14 inch prints from the show at just $80 each. You can view the collection here: The North Shore in Black and White.

I hope to see you there at the gallery on Monday the 2nd of November at 11am. The gallery is located on the corner of Ala Moana Boulevarde and Ward Avenue in Honolulu.

Davey’s wavey gravey train

admin — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:28:08 +0000

I’ve been working really hard lately to get my site more up to date. More to the point, I’ve been adding more galleries. The latest to come on line, are my waves. I went through a collection of near 1,000 images from a 20 year time span, and culled it down to just under 300 images. These represent the very best waves that I’ve shot in the past 20 or so years. All images are available as fine art prints or canvases. Also, my images are available for stock license. Just send me an email with the image/s attached that you are interested in.

Aloha

Sean

Featured photographer at Aussie website; mesurf

admin — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:23:19 +0000

A surf website out of Australia recently asked me a bunch of questions and grabbed some shots to go with them. This is how it panned out. Just click on the picture to go to the actual site….

Locals day on Hobart’s amazing pointbreaks, in Tasmania

admin — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:32:01 +0000

Being a Tasmanian myself, I like to head back there around Autumn time each year as it is one of my absolute favourite places to shoot photos. On my 2006 trip with Mark Healey, Jamie Sterling and the Long bro’s, we scored the extremely elusive Hobart point-breaks on what many were calling the best point-break swell in over 10 years. As you would expect, I scored a ton of great photos of my traveling band of surfers, but I wanted to take this opportunity to show that the locals are all over these waves way more than anyone else. Simply put, if the points are on, all tools are downed. I put this pictorial together for the Aussie site; www.thecollective.net.au
Check it out……..

4th of July at a leisurely north shore pace

admin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:50:06 +0000

Hi all
this is actually now the 5th of July, but I thought I would post something about how the 4th of July looked from this little corner of the world, out here on the north shore of Oahu in Hawaii, out in the middle of the Pacific.

I actually started my day off very early. I looked out into the dark, to note that it was quite still. Personally, I like it when there’s not much of a breeze because the water takes on a whole different look with the glassy textures and stuff. So I chugged down a coffee and drove down to one of my favorite hangs, to check the conditions. It was just before 6AM and the sun was fast approaching. My goal this morning was to try to capture some waves with, but looking almost straight towards the sun. Kind of tricky, but with the chaotic rythm’s of the oceans, you can get almost any shot on any kind of day. You just have to be in the equation. My buddy James (Romero) is paddling out on a longboard, so I seize the moment to shoot some lifestyle stock pictures of him paddling out against the awesome sunrise. James has caught a couple of waves and next thing, his roomie Jonathon (Bouware) is paddling out. James mentions that Jon’s a birthday boy today, so I knew I had to get a few pictures. The following pictures are a document of some moments throughout the session. My day was far from done however. next stop was the Annual paddleboard race from Sunset beach to Waimea bay. I got out there with a pair of fins and a fisheye, documenting the passing paddlers, just because it was something a little different. Then came the 4th of July fireworks at Turtle Bay and our day was complete. :) enjoy!

Mason Ho takes the cover of The Surfers Path No 73

admin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:45:28 +0000

I travelled with Mason Ho, Flynn Novak And Ezra Sitt all from Hawaii in Tasmania this year. Our visit coincided with some damn tasty waves, especially at Bluff Reef. Mason surfed the place like no one else, consistently placing himself behind the peak on Take-off. This led to a few pretty intense take-offs, one of which impressed the editors of The Surfers Path, to give it their ultimate stamp of approval; the Cover shot. Here I present you The Surfers Path cover No 73 along with the actual picture.

Ben Aipa’s surfboards are cool

admin — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:17:02 +0000

I was just randomly looking through some files for a picture to post, and came across these cool shots of Legend Hawaiian surfer and surfboard shaper; Ben Aipa. Ben’s a long time friend of my wife and I and a really nice guy. It is said that it was actually one of Ben’s shapes that Mark Richard crafted his first twin-fin from. For those of you who aren’t up on surf history, Mark went on to totally dominate the sport of surfing with 4 consecutive world titles. I would not have thought that his record of 4 titles would have been beat, but here we are some 20 something years on and Kelly Slater has 9 of them. Wow!
Everyone I know who’s had a board shaped by Ben has been totally stoked on them, so if you want one, just get in touch with Ben by calling him at (1) 808-391 3903, right here in Hawaii or fire an email at him to: aipahawaii@mac.com

Aloha

New fine art print: Aqua Foam Wall

admin — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:13:27 +0000

It’s that time of the year when my attention turns to shooting images purely for myself. It’s really, really quiet here on the north shore. Everyone’s outta here on surf trips or hanging out in Bali or whatever it is that they do at this time of the year. This is when I can shoot just purely to please myself. Usually at this time of the year, it involves water because it is summer in Hawaii after all. About this time, the dolphins start to appear on the north shore spots and the bait fish are starting to gather into big schools at select locations. If none of that’s going on yet, then I’m probably photographing turtles or waves. Yeah waves! They aren’t big by any means, often quite small actually, but always an interesting spectacle to photograph. This is my latest piece simply called “Aqua Foam Wall” enjoy!

Sean

Fine art prints from Sean Davey

admin — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 09:11:42 +0000

If you are anything like me, you may well have a strong fascination with waves. I love waves of all shapes and sizes. The very first picture that I ever photographed was of a wave. A wave that was too small to surf, but very perfect in shape. I offer my pictures for sale as prints ranging from a modest 8×10 inches right up to 4 x 8 feet in size. My images are also available as giclee wraps. The choice is yours. If you’d like to enquire about some of my prints, please email me here at:
and I’ll be happy to answer your enquiry.

Aloha

Sean

Hotel resort chooses Davey fine art for lobby

admin — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:41:57 +0000

Turtle Bay Hotel here on the north shore of Oahu did some major renovations a couple of years back and as part of the deal, they purchased more than 30 of my fine art prints which they have displayed throughout the hotel lobby and near the elevators on each of the 6 floors. Now that I have such freedom with this new “wordpress” website, I’ll be bringing you all kinds of these goings-ons as they happen.

Aloha

Sean