More in print, this time from Trip Surf in France
Trip surf magazine in france recently requested this ariel perspective of Pipeline from me. It’s nice to see that it got some room.
Sean
Tasmania pictorial on Surfline
Hey everyone. The fella’s at surfline.com asked me yesterday for some photos of my homeland of Tasmania. Always one to fly the flag for “Tassy”, I was more than happy to oblige. I like to inspire people to get out there and find some gems of their own, so [...]
Classic big wave moment: Randy lane at Outside Avalanche
This was back in 1999 and I was up in a chopper, randomly shooting tow surfing. Nothing organised as such. I was checking out these guys at Outside Avalanche when this one guy on an old school stand-up jetski caught a bomb and just got real close to the [...]
Classic Surf moment: Martin Potter – Sydney
This is a flashback to a classic day at Sydney’s Whale Beach in 1996. Martin Potter scoring his favourite Sydney beach at it’s best.
Another pictorial from last year’s King island mission
this just in; the highly successful shoot from last year on King Island in Australia, just yielded another pictorial, this one in the Brazilian magazine Alma Surf. Check it out…
Critter Tees for Kids now at the Tee shop
I was looking through my images the other day and happened to be looking at a bunch of creature shots. It occurred to me how much kids dig animals and funny faces and stuff, so I created the “Critter Tee’s for Kids” collection. Of course though, if any of you big kids [...]
Pipeline shines
As anyone will testify to round here at the moment, it’s been a very ordinary Jan and Feb for surf in hawaii. You can count the number of good Pipe days on one hand. Finally, we got some good Pipe yesterday, but the Bodyboarders had their event on, so I waited till [...]
It’s Lane’s birthday
I thought I’d take an opportunity to introduce you all to my wife Lane. As many of you who know the north shore are familar with, Lane is the chick in the pink helmet who’s out at Pipe every morning. If it’s breaking, she’s down there every day at the crack [...]
Flashback to 1994 and a young Kelly
It was my 2nd season on the north shore, the 94-95 season, and Kelly was dominating the Pipemasters for the second of what has now become 6 victories there. Pretty much round this time, he was untouchable out at Pipe, just doing stuff that crew hadn’t even seen there before. I think [...]
Classic surf moment
“Kieren Perrow has just taken off on a monster, only to have the lip curl in after him and hunt him down, like it was alive.”
New Release: Vintage Style surf T’s and gifts
I’ve had a lot of people ask me over the years if they could buy T’s from me with my pictures, so I looked into it and it seemed kind of hard ask because of the excessive shipping charges from Hawaii, but then I looked into it a bit further and discovered cafe press. [...]
Classic surf moment; Todos 98
A moment from the Reef contest at Todos Santos Island (Mexico) in Feb 1998. This is the same contest that Taylor Knox earned $50K for his paddle in wave.
I’ll bring you up to speed on this moment here; They had already run one day of competition so far without the Aussie [...]
The sandbars are back!
Usually round this time of the year, the sand starts to pile back in on the beaches between Rocky point and Pipeline. The result is similar to Queensland’s pointbreaks on the gold coast. Just long tubular rights, breaking down perfectly groomed sandbars. Pancho called me up to say that it [...]
Good surf on the north shore
This morning at Pipe was pretty busy due to a large number of crew, out to get their fair share of the spoils on offer. Pipe was kinda doing it’s thing in that, every so many waves, there’d be a pretty decent one come through. There was a large film crew down there [...]
Local surfer – local hero
My good buddy, Emmett Nothnaggle played a pivotal role in saving a swimmer’s life at Keiki beach a few days ago. Emmett lives right there at Keiki and is very much at home, swimming in the thumping waves that pound the beach there. These are a few shots of Emmett here…
This [...]
new “STOKED” calendar for 2010
Hi all, I just received a preview of my 2010 calendar called “Stoked” by Pomegranate press. This is a large calendar at 12 x 13 inches in size, it’s a very high quality calendar like the premium ones that you in the store. If you’d like to pre-order [...]
Classic Surf Moment; Ace Cool Outer Reef Tow In’s
Flashback to around 2000, Tow Surfing still relatively in it’s infancy years. Alec Cooke, also known as “Ace Cool” has been credited for riding the biggest wave ever, at least if you believe the postcards that he freely hands out. Ace is no stranger to big wave exploits. Tow surfing [...]
Return to good conditions
Well, it’s really trying to make a return to beautiful weather here on the north shore. Super sunny this morning and plenty of swell around, just a little harder to find anywhere that’s really making good use of the swell. I ended up taking a stab at shooting Sunset, but really [...]
Yesterday at The Pipe Trials
Finally after a month and half, Pipeline has awoken and just in time for the HIC Pipeline Trials. A one day event in which local surfers compete for 1 of 8 spots in the Pipeline masters later in the year. So unlike most events, there was be no need for Semi [...]
HIC Pipe Trials are GO today
It seems like forever since the pro tour left here and the conditions went bad. It’s been a month and a half since. Now, I’m writing this the night before, but by the time you read this, the HIC Pipe trials should be happening. It’s bound to be dramatic because after [...]
One in a million moment
Well folks, it really has been crappy round here on the north shore lately. Usually at this time of the year, it’s hard to find a safe place to surf, because of the size, but this year, it’s just hard to find waves, period. It’s another groundhog day out there [...]
Classic surf moment: Tom Curren
It was the 94-95 Hawaiian season and I had just swum out for a leisurely shoot at Off The Wall, early one afternoon, when I spotted non other than Tom Curren taking off, so I put in the extra effort and was actually bodysurfing the wave as I shot it. This allows me to [...]
Musica Surfica Photo Feature
From the same gathering which produced the highly acclaimed film: “Musica Surfica” (written and directed by MicK Sowry), these are a selection of my images.
Enjoy.
Sean
Musica Surfica with Derek Hynd and Richard Tognetti
I was given the unique invitation to photograph a gathering on the remote farming community of King Island in Australia. This was no ordinary gathering. It involved key members of the Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) along with key proponents of alternative surfcraft, in particular, finless boards. There [...]
