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 [...]
Mar 03, 2010 | Categories:Featured, film and video | Tags: backlit, big wave surfers, epic, golden, Hawaiian surf, perfect surf, Pipeline, Pipeline surf, pipeline wave, powerful waves, Sean Davey, sunset, surf big wave, surf film, surf north shore | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
Feb 17, 2010 | Categories:Featured | Tags: big wave surfers, biggest waves, color, green energy, Hawaiian surf, horizontal, images surf, limited edtion print, north shore, ocean energy, ocean power, powerful waves, sea wave energy, Sean Dave, silhouettes, surf big wave, surf history, surf image, surf north shore, surfers photographs, Waimea Bay, Waimea Power | Leave A Comment »
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
Feb 06, 2010 | Categories:Featured, latest photos | Tags: big wave surfers, fast, fine photography art, glitter, green energy, images surf, ocean energy, perfect surf, photographers fine art, pictures surfers, pictures wave, Pipeline, pipeline wave, powerful waves, Sean Davey, shimmer, speed blur, surf big wave, surf image, surf north shore, surf pipeline, surfers photographs, tubed, waves energy | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
Feb 02, 2010 | Categories:Featured, latest photos | Tags: big wave surfers, color, green energy, Hawaiian surf, ocean energy, Pipeline surf, pipeline wave, powerful waves, pro surfing, sea wave energy, Sean Davey, surf contest, surf north shore, surfers pictures, Volcom Pipe Pro | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
Feb 01, 2010 | Categories:Featured, latest photos | Tags: color, famous surfers, green energy, Jamie Obrien, ocean energy, perfect surf, pictures surfers, Pipeline surf, pipeline wave, powerful waves, sea wave energy, Sean Davey, surf big wave, surf north shore, surfing contest, Volcom Pipe Pro, waves energy | Leave A Comment »
My wife Lane has been waiting just about all season for the ugly sandbar to move away and let Pipe do it’s thing properly. Finally, it did this morning, all be it under still ragged and large swell which at times was rolling entire heats of contestents. Those [...]
Jan 28, 2010 | Categories:Featured, latest photos | Tags: awesome waves, big wave surfers, color, Hawaiian surf, horizontal, images surf, perfect surf, pipeline wave, powerful waves, Sean Davey, surf big wave, surf image, surf north shore, surfing contest, Volcom Pipe Pro | Leave A Comment »
Following on with all the excitement of the huge swells that have been belting the north shore lately; Surfline has just published another pictorial from the big swell 2 days ago, featuring a good portion of my imagery. Check it out here
Aloha
Sean
Additional Images from Massive Monday at Waimea [...]
Jan 13, 2010 | Categories:On Other Sites | Tags: big wave surfers, big wave surfing, biggest waves, color, dangerous, giant waves, heavy wave, horizontal, images surf, perilous, pictures surfers, powerful waves, Sean Davey, storm waves, surf big wave, surf north shore, surf wipeout, Waimea Bay | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
Jan 12, 2010 | Categories:Featured, latest photos | Tags: 01.11.10, 2010, biggest waves, color, green energy, heavy wave, horizontal, images surf, Jan 11th, pictures surfers, powerful waves, sea swell, Sean Davey, storm swell, surf big wave, surf north shore, Waimea Bay | 1 Comment »
We are expecting another huge swell at Waimea Bay tomorrow morning. Already the buoys have hit 25 feet, 17 seconds and are set to go higher till sometime tomorrow morning. I’ll be up in the dark tomorrow morning, scoping out the Bay. I might have a new swag [...]
Jan 10, 2010 | Categories:Featured | Tags: big wave surfers, biggest waves, images surf, north shore surf, powerful waves, Sean Davey, storm waves, surf, surf big wave, surf history, surf north shore, surfers photographs, surfing, Waimea Bay | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
Jan 08, 2010 | Categories:Featured, latest photos | Tags: Backdoor Shootout, big waves, biggest waves, color, green energy, horizontal, ocean energy, photos surfers, Pipeline surf, powerful waves, Sean Davey, surf north shore, swell lines | 1 Comment »
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. [...]
Jan 04, 2010 | Categories:Featured, latest photos | Tags: big wave surfers, biggest waves, giant waves, green energy, Hawaiian surf, heavy wave, huge wave, images surf, ocean energy, ocean power, powerful waves, Sean Davey, storm waves, surf big wave, surf history, surf image, surf north shore, surf wipeout, Waimea Bay, Waimea freesurf sessions, wipeout images | Leave A Comment »
I’ve been doing some dabbling on the video feature with my new cameras, in between shoots. Here’s some cool stuff from Off The Wall, yesterday morning.
Enjoy
Sean
Dec 28, 2009 | Categories:Featured, film and video | Tags: Backdoor, fine photography art, Hawaii, Hawaiian surf, images surf, north shore, Oahu, ocean energy, ocean power, pictures wave, powerful waves, sea swell, Sean Davey, surf image, surf north shore, surfers photographs, waves energy | Leave A Comment »
As many of you know, I’ve been lucky enough to live here on the north shore for the past 12 or so years and during all this time, I’ve been really good mates with Pancho Sullivan and now his wife Hanauni and young family. Pancho and I have been [...]
Dec 16, 2009 | Categories:Featured | Tags: 100, big wave, big wave surfers, biggest waves, black-and-white, green energy, green power, Hawaii, Hawaiian surf, heavy wave, horizontal, images surf, Kehau Sullivan, limited edition, Massive Monday, north shore, Oahu, ocean energy, ocean wave power, Olivia Kehau Sullivan, powerful waves, sea wave energy, Sean Davey, storm surf, surf big wave, surf history, surf image, surf north shore, surfers photographs, Waimea Bay | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Dec 12, 2009 | Categories:Classic surf, Featured, latest photos | Tags: big wave, big wave surfers, biggest waves, color, green energy, green power, Hawaii, Hawaiian surf, heavy wave, horizontal, images surf, Mick Fanning, north shore, Oahu, ocean energy, ocean wave power, pipe masters, Pipemasters, powerful waves, sea wave energy, Sean Davey, storm surf, surf big wave, surf history, surf image, surf north shore, surfers photographs, world surfing champion | Leave A Comment »
It’s been a couple of days of the Pipe Masters already, but everyone’s is in such a daze after the recent Giant swell episode that the appeal of the Pipe Masters is not as it usually would be. Given that it’s only 3-5 foot on average, doesn’t help with one’s enthusiasm that much. [...]
Dec 11, 2009 | Categories:Featured, latest photos | Tags: big wave, big wave surfers, biggest waves, color, green energy, green power, Hawaii, Hawaiian surf, heavy wave, horizontal, images surf, north shore, Oahu, ocean energy, ocean wave power, Pipemasters, powerful waves, sea wave energy, Sean Davey, storm surf, surf big wave, surf history, surf image, surf north shore, surfers photographs | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
Dec 09, 2009 | Categories:Classic surf, Featured, latest photos | Tags: big wave, big wave surfers, big wave surfing contest, biggest waves, color, Eddie Aikau, green energy, green power, Hawaii, Hawaiian surf, heavy wave, horizontal, images surf, north shore, Oahu, ocean energy, ocean wave power, powerful waves, sea wave energy, Sean Davey, storm surf, surf big wave, surf history, surf image, surf north shore, surfers photographs, Waimea Bay | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Dec 08, 2009 | Categories:Classic surf, Featured, latest photos | Tags: big wave, big wave surf contest, big wave surfers, biggest waves, close out, close out set, Eddie Aikau, green energy, green power, Greg Long, Hawaii, Hawaiian surf, heavy wave, images surf, north shore, Oahu, ocean energy, ocean wave power, panorama, powerful waves, sea wave energy, Sean Davey, storm surf, surf big wave, surf history, surf image, surf north shore, surfers photographs, Waimea Bay | 2 Comments »
We have a massive, massive swell filling in round the north shore right now. I have to get right back up there before they shut it all down, so you won’t be hearing from me again till tomorrow night. Till then, check this beast from Waimea Bay, this morning….
Dec 07, 2009 | Categories:Featured, latest photos | Tags: big wave, big wave surfers, biggest waves, green energy, green power, Hawaii, Hawaiian surf, heavy wave, images surf, north shore, Oahu, ocean energy, ocean wave power, powerful waves, sea wave energy, Sean Davey, storm surf, surf big wave, surf history, surf image, surf north shore, surfers photographs, Waimea Bay | Leave A Comment »
There’s all kinds of rumors running rampant around the north shore right now. Some crew even reckon the national guard is coming in tonight to road block the north shore and that it will be this way for 2 days. If that happens, what will become of the Eddie Aikau big wave [...]
Dec 06, 2009 | Categories:Featured, latest photos | Tags: Backdoor, big wave surfers, big wave surfing, biggest waves, Dean Morrison, Eddie Aikau, famous surfers, giant waves, Hawaiian surf, Hawaiian surfing contest, heavy wave, Kelly Slater, north shore, powerful waves, Sean Davey, storm waves, surf big wave, surf history, surf north shore, surfing contest | 1 Comment »
The north shore is abuzz right now with reports of a couple of big swells headed our way, but one in particular which is being called the largest most have ever seen forecast.
Many hard core longtime surf watchers are claiming that this is THE biggie! Some even calling [...]
Dec 04, 2009 | Categories:Featured, latest photos | Tags: big wave surfers, big wave surfing, biggest waves, Eddie Aikau, famous surfers, giant waves, Hawaiian surf, Hawaiian surfing contest, heavy wave, powerful waves, Sean Davey, storm waves, surf big wave, surf history, surf north shore, surfing contest | 2 Comments »
My wife dawn patrols. Lane’s usually down at WQS surf event starting there tomorrow and the surfers would want to be getting their practice in. I wasn’t wrong either. There was a healthy crew of surfers all over it, many of them getting caught inside by solid left handers from the [...]
Nov 26, 2009 | Categories:Featured, latest photos | Tags: big wave surfers, images surf, ocean power, ocean swell, pictures surfers, powerful waves, sea wave energy, storm surf, storm waves, surf big wave, surf north shore, waves energy | 2 Comments »
Yesterday’s big wave episode really didn’t pan out to be that great. The swell was coming up all day long but the weather conditions deteriated to about as dark as you can get with regular rain showers and stuff. I started out by checking out Sunset. There were [...]
Nov 26, 2009 | Categories:Featured, latest photos | Tags: Avalanche, big swell, big wave, big wave surfers, biggest waves, dangerous surf, giant waves, Haleiwa, images surf, north shore, ocean energy, ocean power, ocean wave energy, ocean wave power, Pipeline, powerful waves, storm waves, surf north shore | Leave A Comment »
He caught this ridiculous barrel just half an hour into his surf.
Nov 07, 2009 | Categories:Classic surf, film and video | Tags: big wave surfers, energy from the ocean, frontlit, green power, heavy wave, Jamie Obrien, north shore surf, ocean, ocean energy, ocean energy resources, ocean power, ocean swell, ocean wave energy, ocean wave power, perfect surf, pictures surfers, pictures wave, Pipeline, powerful waves, sea power marine, sea swell, sea wave, sea wave energy, storm waves, surf, surf big wave, surf north shore, surfers wave, surfing, water | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
Oct 01, 2009 | Categories:Classic surf, Featured | Tags: big wave surfers, Classic surf, Derek Ho, energy from the ocean, frontlit, green power, heavy wave, north shore surf, ocean, ocean energy, ocean energy resources, ocean power, ocean swell, ocean wave energy, ocean wave power, perfect surf, pictures surfers, pictures wave, Pipeline, powerful waves, sea power marine, sea swell, sea wave, sea wave energy, storm waves, surf, surf big wave, surf north shore, surfers wave, water | 1 Comment »
