Dave Sparkes
Wave Rock, West Oz
Wave Rock, West Oz
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Title: Wave Rock, West Oz
Artist: Dave Sparkes
These sorts of long exposures (this was two hours!) are only possible by stacking a bunch of briefer images together. Digital sensors won’t tolerate really long exposures, so I used around 60, two-minute exposures layered together to form a montage. For the last shot, I used a torch to paint some light onto the foreground. If there’s a better image of Wave Rock around, I haven’t seen it.
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PHOTOGRAPHERS BIO
Dave was born in 1962 and grew up in Bondi Beach, moving to Blueys Beach, on the NSW mid-north coast, in 1998. He has been a full-time professional surf photographer/journalist since 1996 and has completed assignments worldwide for magazines such as Tracks, Waves, The Surfer’s Path, Surfer, The Surfer’s Journal, Surfing World and ASL. He has also done assignments for Rip Curl, Billabong, Quiksilver, Carve Eyewear, and many other clients. He has written and photographed travel features for Outdoor magazine and The Sydney Morning Herald.
Dave has photographed numerous covers for magazines published in France, England, the US, Australia, New Zealand, Spain and Brazil, including the highly prestigious cover of the 2005 US Surfer Magazine Photo Annual. He has travelled to many countries for commercial and editorial shoots including Hawaii, Tahiti, Indonesia, Chile, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Marshall Islands, Mexico, Tonga, Fiji, China, Cook Islands, Japan, Mozambique and South Africa.
In early 2005, for Tracks Magazine, Dave covered the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami that devastated much of South-East Asia. Dave has been a staff photographer/writer for the iconic Tracks magazine since 1998. He has twice placed amongst the top ten finalists of the Australian Professional Surf Photo Awards. He is well known for his mastery of the “over/under” or split shot genre and is considered by his peers to be the leading photographer in this field.
Dave has had images published in several books such as The Moment, Pilgrimage, The World Stormrider Guide, Outra Ondas, A Wave Away and Archipelago.
His first solo book, The Wave: Tales From The Impact Zone, a stunning collection of images and travel stories, was published in Australia and New Zealand by Hachette Publishing in 2011, to rave reviews.
In his book review for the Sydney Morning Herald, noted journalist David Knox wrote of The Wave: Tales From the Impact Zone:
“Proof of Sparkes’ artistry with a camera appears on every page, but the book is made all the more satisfying by the author’s deftness with words. He writes cleverly and lovingly of his craft… A rewarding, enlightening and often humorous read…”
Dave currently resides in Byron Bay with his fiancée, Tracey, and is now developing a reputation as a fine watercolourist, having held exhibitions at Tweed Regional Gallery; Grafton Regional Gallery; Lone Goat Gallery; NRCG (Ballina); Coldstream Gallery, Ulmarra; and several others. He paints watercolour landscapes full-time these days, with surf photography only occasionally in the mix.
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