Through the lens of the beholder, to us all.
Dave Davis of Old Man and the Sea Photography has been capturing the Gulf in all of her majestic glory for over six decades.
In 1959, at the young age of 17, Dave Davis joined the United States Army to serve and protect his country. Having an interest in photography, and wanting to capture his journey on film, he spent a good chunk of his very first military paycheck on a camera. It was the now-legendary Kodak Brownie Hawkeye.
Since that time, Davis — now 79 years old — has been photographing his journey and capturing memories for many others along the way. In the past decade-and-a-half, Davis has gotten particularly serious about his photography, making it a second career.
I'm 79 years old now, so I'm trying to get as many good photos in as I can before the good Lord calls me.
He named his company Old Man and the Sea, after Ernest Hemingway's well-known 1952 classic. Like Papa Hemingway, Davis has been a longtime admirer of the sea, making his home along the Gulf of Mexico, around which most all of his work is centered. In many ways, Dave Davis' photographic talent is a testament to art following art, one a novelist, the other a photographer, both lovers of the sea and purveyors of what they see.
Photos © Old Man and the Sea Photography · Originally published in Beach Happy Magazine, Issue 3
