Darren Jew photographer blog — nature, underwater and photo news

Canon’s “1/200 sec with Darren Jew” video

5 April 2011

Canon has launched the new “Seconds/with” series of documentary style interviews with Australian professional photographers. The first episode, “1/200 sec with Darren Jew” went live this week, and explores the story behind capturing my APPA award-winning image “Weightless”. The “Seconds/with” series is one of the features of the all new Canon EOS Professional web portal. This […]

Read the full article →

Margaret Throsby interviews composer David Pickvance

4 March 2011

Last Wednesday 2 March 2011, legendary broadcaster Margaret Throsby interviewed English-born Australian composer David Pickvance on her ABC Classic FM Mornings show. David is an amazing talent. I first met him when we were both plying our respective trades at Southbank Markets in Brisbane in the early 1990s… he was selling CDs of his compositions, […]

Read the full article →

“Weightless” print offer

15 February 2011

At The Qld AIPP’s recent Hair Of The Dog conference in Brisbane, a print of my image “Weightless” was included in the Charity Print Auction to help raise money for the victims of the recent natural disasters in Queensland through the Premier’s Disaster Relief Fund. The bidding took place on the evening of the 5th […]

Read the full article →

the new darrenjew.com

28 January 2011

Welcome to the latest revision of darrenjew.com . It’s about 9 years since the first incarnation of the site went live, and this renovation represents a huge step forward in site functionality. Since the outset, my site has been designed, developed, maintained and enhanced together with Pasi Ihalainen from iTank . For visitors familiar with […]

Read the full article →

Sea Lions and MPAs

9 January 2011

The January to March 2011 edition of the Australian Geographic Journal has been released, and it’s a bumper oceans issue. The sea lion shoot from January 2010 has resulted in my second AG cover and an extensive article, written by Roy Hunt. Shooting the sea lions was great fun, and the images would not have […]

Read the full article →

Fisheye Zoom on its way from Canon

19 December 2010

Canon releases new 8-15mm L-series fisheye zoom.

Read the full article →

The Barrier Reef really is Great

17 December 2010

I’ve been photographing for Tourism Queensland for a number of years now, both on destination shoots and some of the more elaborate campaign productions. During October 2010 we put together a team to produce library images featuring divers and snorkelers enjoying the wonders of the Great Barrier Reef. Sounds pretty straight forward, right? Well compared […]

Read the full article →