The more swell…
The more swell the better! Large swells have a way of lighting up spots that rarely see waves. We say, Bring it on!
Paddle power is back!
I got a call from a friend of mine today from the North Shore of Oahu. He was standing on a 3-story beach house where he was doing construction. There were a few guys surfing a well known tow-in spot in front of him and he was giving me the play by play. ”One of [...]
Big ups to Shane
Who is one of the best all around surfers in the world today? Kelly? Well, ofcourse. Mick after his second world title? Yes. Joel’s surgical cuts even after his world title collapse? Sure, the argument could be made…and there are many others. But I’m all about looking a little deeper and beyond the ASP tour. [...]
You should have been here (Pipeline) yesterday!
I saw that the North Shore was pumping this weekend, so much so that Surfline put the Pipe cam on the front page! It gets me thinking, ‘Hey there’s gotta be a wave from that swell on our beaches somewhere!’. So, I go and check the forecast- 2 to 3 feet. I know what that [...]
Merry Christmas
Wishing you season’s greetings and Happy Holidays to all. Here is an image I really like from my recent Hawaii trip. It is Pipeline on a really good day. That is actually Jamie O’brien in the tube. I remember he was just owning it. Everyone else was getting scraps and he would score the perfect [...]
Valentine’s Waimea is back
There have been several requests for last season’s Waimea Bay session on Valentine’s Day (February 14, 2008). I have reposted this gallery and made your photos available one last time. If you want your photos, please order them as soon as you can or they may be gone forever. The gallery is huge- over 1300 [...]
Kelly floods competition
I didn’t know if I was on the North Shore or the Jersey shore when I arrived at Pipe today. Chocolate barrels were churning frothy brown soup that looked like day of the decade on the east coast – Double overhead with bigger sets. I would say it was ‘clean’, but that is not the [...]
Surfline review
Surfline just reviewed the last week of swell here in Hawaii with a cool portfolio. Some of my pics make an appearance. I was surprised when they didn’t use a few that I originally submitted because I thought they were pretty good, but they magically appeared in this article. One of my favorites is ‘Outside’ which [...]
The Sandbar
Every year I like to get out on the Sandbar and shoot some wave shots. It always looks so good because of the way the light reflects off the bottom and turns the water the deepest blue/green. Here is a sample. This site will eventually have a really cool area for fine art prints where [...]
Waimea Bay
Does this Waimea charger make his air drop? You will have to wait and see when the galleries load. This might take awhile because there are 1,200 photos! Ridiculous? Yes. Way too many photos, but I just couldn’t help myself. Waimea was good. Not great or epic, but just really good (BTW, I think people [...]
New Galleries posted!
We got your Galleries – Pipe, Sunset, and even Waimea right here! Let’s start with the epic day at Pipe which was on ‘Black Friday’ shopping day. I couldn’t think of a better place to be than at Pipe going off while the rest of the US is in WalMart! ha ha…This gallery includes the Aamion [...]
Secret Spot? Nope.
What? Where is this wave? Is this some secret island peeler? Yep. Sure is…about 40 years ago! That my readers is Pipe taken with a 50mm lens from the beach. It looks like some perfect fun point/beach surf, but it is the real deal. Pipe on a big west. Growing by the hour…The swell came [...]
Swell gossip…
It was flat today and it has been small lately. Everyone is playing the waiting game. Seems like a great time to gossip about upcoming swells. At the moment we have good reason. Looks like a nice couple of storms are brewing and this weekend could be epic, but it is still just a forecast. [...]
Michel Bourez wins Reef Pro
After exiting another perfect barrel, Michel Bourez enjoys the view of an empty Haleiwa set wave during the final seconds of the contest. With none of his competitors riding, the feeling is probably just starting to sink in- Oh my god I WON! Stoked! I couldn’t believe it. I was watching the Reef Hawaiian Pro [...]
My modeling career…
I showed up at Sunset this morning and found super clean conditions at the peak and all adjacent breaks. A gallery is coming soon. It will be listed as ‘Sunset’ although I was pointing the camera in every direction! Same goes for ‘Ehukai’, which will include Pupukea, Turkey Bay and on up into Rocky Rights. [...]
Reef does it again…
No, I’m not talking about ‘Reef’ the company, but Reef Macintosh the charger. Dude always seems to get the biggest waves. Look at this monster from yesterday at Pipe! Very impressive my brother. A few years ago I shot this insane drop he had at Waimea and didn’t know who he was. Now I see [...]
Pipeline – The Danger is real…
At Pipeline this morning I witnessed an accident that may be serious. We just don’t know yet. A surfer and bodyboarder, each having position but going at each other, collided on a steep Pipe drop and the bodyboarder hit bottom. Myself and Sean Davey were right there and Pipe charger and local lifeguard Dave Wassel [...]
A different perspective…
So I shot a few at Haleiwa this afternoon as the swell started to fill in with my friend and talented North Shore photographer Allen Mozo. We were both kind of itching to surf the whole time! I love Haleiwa and the light crowd was making it look fun. The rights were pumping with a [...]
This is ‘small’ Sunset
The swell stayed on for the second day as predicted and ‘small’ Sunset was where I shot some great photos of some of you enjoying the trade groomed conditions this morning. Looks like more swell setting up for the end of the weekend into early next week. I love this time of year on the [...]
New swell tomorrow
This is what I have been waiting for! A nice medium sized swell to get warmed up and ready to go. The buoy has already started to show (5ft. 17 seconds) at 2:00pm, so we should see a significant increase in the morning (it couldn’t be any smaller)! Stoked! What I forgot to write was [...]
Congratulations Lori and Tony!
Yesterday I shot a wedding (Yes, SickShots is branching out! My new website for this is coming soon to www.davecollyer.net). The wedding was in one of the oldest and definitely most sacred churches here in Hawaii- Kawaiahao Church. Kings and Queens of yesteryear have marched down the aisle to be wed in this old stone [...]
Packing for Hawaii- Think Tank!
Ok, so I spent the day (yes, the entire day) packing for our trip to Hawaii. The incredible part is that the most difficult packing was up to my wife (she packed for our 1 year old son). My time was putting together all my camera gear and packing as much as I can without [...]
Waimea Bay Classic Day
In my last post I talked about possibly bringing back some ‘old’ classic sessions and I decided to start with this one- Waimea Bay, February 2006. This is a huge gallery with over 900 photos of one of the best days I have seen at Waimea in a long time. There were closeout sets and [...]
