Our congratulations to Kirill Ivanov, our videographer, who won the biggest wildlife contest in Russia Golden Turtle Contest 2013 with his movie “The Island Of Dancing Sardines” (Остров танцующих сардин). his diploma is on the left, and the movie is here:
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Yay! “Legends of the Caucasus” became the photo-winner in the category “Fresh Water” on the festival “Golden Dolphin” (Moscow, Russia). Congratulations, Victor!
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Short photo set from our Secrets of Shipwrecks project. It is a part of Underwater Russian Heritage Project. Underwater Russian Heritage Project was supported by СJSC “Baltic Marine Company” (ЗАО «Балтийское морское общество»)
This morning I’ve received a warm email from Jesse Blackadder, the author of a great novell “Chasing the Light”. It reads: “I’m the author of the book that features one of your exquisite photos on the cover. I’d really like to link to your website for more information about that shot. … I’m sure my readers will be fascinated – I’ve had so many great comments about the cover!”
Dear Jesse, that is a good question, I’ll tell you the story with pleasure. The woman on this photo is Natalie Avseenko, twice world champion in freediving.
These two women (Natalie’s and your heroine) were seperated with 80 years and resided on the opposite ends of the earth, but their stories seem to have similar features. These two women are very feminine and strong at the same time; I think, it was their inner integrity and fidelity to themselves made them who they are.
The shot had been captured by Viktor Lyagushkin in the White sea, behind the North Polar Circle, 2011. In this project Natalie freedived naked with white whales. Swimming with belugas was her child dream, but why she was naked? Continue reading
Big story of the Russian Navy transport ship “America” in brilliant magazine Asian Diver #1/Vol 124 .
The story about famous ship and UW archaeologists work on finding and identifying of shipwrecks.
Early on a sunny morning of August 6, captain Andrey Sinitsyn commanded to cast off a 53-tonne diving boat 311 heading for the western-most point of Russia in the Gulf of Finland – the island of Hogland. So the 71st underwater archaeological expedition of the project Secrets of Shipwrecks started.
This time, the main task was to search for the remains of America. Nowadays, only the lonely graves in an abandoned island cemetery remind us of her death.
Congratulations to our team photographer, Victor Lyagushkin! He set the first place in January stage of the competition Photographer of the Year 2013 with his Blue Lake photo, Lady of Orda Cave photo and photo from Lazurny quarry. Wish him good luck for the future!
Orda Cave is our first joint project with AirPano team. In 2010 we spent 6 months in the cave shooting its amazing galleries, working on Orda Cave Awareness Project. And spherical panorama of the Cave became the next logical step for AirPano team and us.
We are happy to show you The very first world’s spherical underwater cave panorama:
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