Wave of the day – “Aqua-blade”
Folks; todays picture of the day comes to you from the ever-amazing Pupukea sandbar, on the north shore. Every year usually around Feb-March, tons of
sand gets pushed into the beach at Pupukea, between Pipeline and Rocky Point. During these months, the sand gets groomed into a long series of hollow [...]
A view of a wave from behind and underwater
You ever wondered what a wave looks like as it depletes itself upon the beach ?
Wonder no more. Here is a view of a wave, here on the north shore , but this image was actually taken underwater, behind the wave as it broke upon the beach. I’ve always [...]
Clean and green on King Island.
A simple wave of the day, here from King Island in Australia. This particular beach is as close to surf heaven that I have seen.
What’s doing, up north?
The south swell pushed up a bit yesterday, so Wire and I lobbed into the falcon, (what we like to call “The Mobile Couch”) and headed up north, to take a look for ourselves…
Beautiful conditions finally return to the north shore
It’s been like 2 weeks of bad weather here on the north shore, so it was soooooo good to see the sunny conditions return to the north shore and with no winds. I went for a bit of a swim at Pupukea sandbar this morning with Pancho Sullivan, Carissa Moore and Myles [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
Art showing at the prestigious Annenberg Space for Photography
I was recently approached by a representative of the prestigious Annenberg Space for Photography, requesting my participation in an upcoming international show dedicated to sports photography. I submitted 30 images for consideration and promptly received a very hearty welcome to the exhibition. Unfortunately, I can’t make the show itself, but I [...]
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 [...]
Finals day at the Volcom Pipe pro
They wrapped up the Volcom pipeline Pro surfing contest yesterday at perfectly glassy 4-6 foot Pipeline. It was the earliest that anyone can ever remember seeing a contest at Pipeline finish. There were just the 2 semi finals and final. The final itself was kind of [...]
Jamie OBrien wins the 2010 Volcom Pipe Pro
Jamie OBrien just took out the 2010 Volcom Pipe pro surfing event right here at Pipeline, on the north shore. This is just a quick report right now. I’ll file a more detailed one later. The results were:
1st Place: Jamie OBrien
2nd Place Anthony Walsh
3rd place: Mark Mathews
4th place: Danny [...]
Incredible water moment
This is an interesting moment from last week’s dream sand bar days. There was this one surfer duck-divingthrough this wave.
I don’t know what happened to them, but this is a pretty cool Hawaiian surf moment….
Sean
Torquoise water fun with the Go pro HD
Amazingly both of my pro cameras are on the blink and hence, are on their way to the Canon repair shop at the mo’, so I’ve been enjoying, filming the sandbars with the new Go Pro HD cam. I shot some hand held footage of random surfers and waves, [...]
Huge perfect Waimea for every man – Jan 11th 2010
The Eddie Aikau big wave surfing contest has a commanding presence over Waimea Bay. Each year, surf season comes around and whenever there’s a sniff of a Waimea swell, there are hoards of sponsored big wave surfers all over it. This year was no different leading up to the [...]
Decent but unorganised Pipe not good enough for the Backdoor Shootout
I rocked up to Pipe this morning, totally expecting that the Backdoor Shootout surfing contest would probably be going ahead simply because the
surf was finally small enough to consider the idea of competing. Although it had vasty cleaned up, it was still a long way from being a quality contest situtation, and [...]
And now for something, just a little different
As many of you already know, I’ve always been pretty obsessed with photographing waves, right from the very first image, I ever photographed. The amazing thing about waves is their forever changing form. Some amazing moments can be photographed that for the most part are lost to regular [...]
Did you surf Waimea on the 5th and the 7th of December?
I’ve had numerous surfers ask me about getting pictures from the Waimea sessions on the 5th and the 7th of december, right before the Eddie, so I went through all the pictures (and there’s a lot) and I placed a large gallery of images on my print site for you to look at. [...]
Picture of the day: “Glass Pitch”
My picture for the day is a three shot sequence from Waimea Shorebreak, which I entitled “Glass Pitch” It is also available in a multitude of print sizes here
Enjoy
Sean
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. [...]
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 [...]
