Sufboard Shaper Shortlisted

February 13th, 2013

You may remember a short film I did on surfboard shaper Josh Dowling. Well being the very clever and talented creative that he is he’s gone and got himself shortlisted as one of ten finalists in the Ketel One Modern Craft Project. The winner walks away with $100,000 so PLEASE follow this link - https://www.themoderncraftproject.com/en-au/the-work/entries/626-joshua-dowling and vote for Josh. If you seen my film on his work you’ll know he sure as hell deserves it. If you haven’t seen it you can watch here: http://www.darrenlunny.com/video/ Get voting

From Little Things …

November 27th, 2012

It’s all too easy to come home after long week shooting, drop your camera bags (not literally) and leave them in the office for the weekend. In the meantime family life swirls around you and those special moments go begging. …

no ordinary life

November 17th, 2012

Bert Wrout is one of the lucky ones. He’s the survivor of a gangland shooting. Bert was drinking with good mate Lewis Moran at the Brunswick Club in 2004 when two gunmen burst through the door, killing Moran and wounding …

Off To The Circus

July 26th, 2012

When we think of the circus most of us think sad clowns and dodgy animal acts but the buffed and highly-skilled students at the National Institute of Circus Arts can do things with their bodies us mere mortals can only …

Some of you may remember the story of Gary Andrews – the 48-year-old father of four who passed away late last year after a very short battle with cancer. His wife basia was heavily pregnant with their third child (his …

The guys and girls at Digital Photography have seen fit to run a four-page spread by yours truly; this time on weddings. I’ll be honest, I’ve not photographed a lot of weddings but the ones that I have shot have …

Reality Check

March 24th, 2012

Don’t know about you but I certainly thought I’d be doing much more of what’s in the left pie chart than the right when I first dreamt of becoming a photographer! Reality bites pretty quickly though once you make the move …

Renowned Australian fashion and portrait photographer Andrew Richey has just celebrated ten years at Ripe Studios (which he built from the ground up) and in this interview he opens up about running a successful studio; winning campaigns; the importance of …

Gotta Love Hipstamatic

March 12th, 2012

I know that Instagram is second (albeit a LONG way) behind Facebook for sharing photos on the net but another great photo app that’s right up there alongside it is Hipstamatic. I’ve been using it on my iPhone for a …

Nikon D800 Release Date?

March 7th, 2012

I’ve been doing a lot of homework on all the bits and pieces I’m going to need for my video kit and I just got a very interesting email from a woman at Zacuto. Zacuto’s been doing some tests on …

The Other Side Of The Story

March 7th, 2012

In response to Philip Bloom’s assessment of the D800 I asked the man behind ‘Joy Ride’, shot entirely on a series of D800s, for his take on the camera. He essentially said Philip Bloom was wrong. Sandro said there was …

Thinking Of Jumping

March 2nd, 2012

I went to the Philip Bloom workshop here in Melbourne Yesterday and learnt lots of interesting stuff including the fact that he won’t be using the Nikon D800 to shoot video. He says the 36mp sensor is simply too big …

There’s so many things to think of when you run your own photography business. I always thought that if I simply took great photographs the rest would take care of itself. Wrong! Fail! Thankfully there’s guys like Andrew Mackinnon around. He’s …

A Career In Diplomacy…

January 4th, 2012

Well, sort of…the good people at Childwise have asked me to be one of their ambassadors and help promote their great work. It absolutely staggers me that one in five Australian children will be sexually abused, more often than not …

What A Great Spread

December 12th, 2011

A big thank you to the guys at Australian Digital Photography, in particular Editor Greg Barton, who’s dedicated way too many pages to a photographer of my ilk in his great magazine. Anyway, if you’re at all interested in reading …

A Bit Of Inspiration Of My Own

November 10th, 2011

I’ve always been a pretty inquisitive sort of person; keen to learn and better my lot in life. So over the past weeks I’ve been interviewing a great mix of insightful, creative, inspirational and  interesting people about the art of …

Say Hello To Grayce

October 24th, 2011

It’s been the worst year imaginable for the Ozga/Andrews family with the death of Gary Andrews late last month. His wife, Basia, was thirty eight weeks pregnant when she farewelled her husband of nineteen days. Well, a little ray of …

Reflections

October 18th, 2011

Our dear friend Gary Andrews was farewelled two weeks ago in front of 300 of his family and friends. Nineteen days after getting married, his beautiful wife Basia stood in front of Gary’s casket to say goodbye to the love …

Kill City – The Players

October 8th, 2011

Since I exhibited these images a few years ago I’ve had lots of people visit the Kill City page on my website and so I thought I’d try to re-create what the exhibition space was like. I say ‘try’ because …

R.I.P Gary Andrews

September 29th, 2011

Devastating news today. Gary Andrews passed away with his wife of a few weeks, Basia, by his side. There were many goals Gaz had set for himself along the journey. First and foremost obviously was not to let the cancer …