Yippee!! Best of Show in Ocean Art Contest 2013 won the photography of Lazurny Quarry by Viktor Lyagushkin!
We are so happy of this! Congratulations to Viktor, congratulations to all the winners and participants.
But this is not all the news!
We have also get 1st place in Cold Water category with photo of Lazurny quarry and our friend white whale Petrovich has brought us 4th place in the same category.
Our Viktor is a winner again! He won the SANTI PHOTO AWARDS 2013, congratulations!
He raised more then 6 000 votes for his wonderful photo of Orda Cave and get the First Prize of the contest: Heating system set – heating undersuit, Drysuit Thermovalve and heated gloves courtesy of Santi company.
Thanks to our friends who had voted for the photo!
We just came back from the Eilat Red Sea Shoot-Out Competition, tired but happy. Meeting old friends, making new ones,and taking pictures!
And this time we have not only good photography, but also a story: How It Was Taken?
You may read the whole story by our friend and great photographer in Michel Braunstein’s blog
Our white whale Petrovich becomes more and more popular. Now the photography of the beluga by Viktor is an adornment of pages of National Geographic Germany Magazine November 2013.
Famous photography by Viktor Lyagushkin turned attention of stargazers:
due to long exposure time there are more stars on the sky that it is possible to see with an naked eye.
Now Viktor’s photo in the Macro Cosme Autumn 2013 ’06
This October we had visited the town of Eilat in blossoming Israel during the Eilat Red Sea ShootOut 2013. Thank you all who had attended Viktor’s lecture, we were happy to be there with you and to share our experience.
We were impressed with the high level of Israeli underwater photography, and it’s definitely a feather in David Pilosof’s cap: all this is possible only due to his decades-long activity.
Thank you Pilo and looking forward to seeing you next year!
This year National Geographic Magazine celebrates 125 anniversary.
October 15, at the Center of Photography Lumiere brothers was held a master class 10000 lumens Underground and Underwaterwater by staff photographer of National Geographic Russia Magazine Viktor Lyagushkin. The event was set as a part of the photo exhibition 125 years of National Geographic.
Thank you, Viktor, for great time with you and Happy Birth-year to National Geographic!
The World’s First Ever Under Ice Spherical Panorama had been created by Phototeam.pro beneath the ice of the White sea.
In Norse mythology, the White Sea is known as the Bay of Serpents. The climate there is so severe that there are no snakes at all, it is called so because of the curved shoreline. The White Sea is an inland sea in the north of the European part of Russia belonging to the Arctic Ocean.
Modern name of the sea is White, because it is covered with the ice and snow shield during the bigger part of the year; it is the only sea found frozen in the Europe. Water salinity is very high: about 26 ppt (parts per thousand), so it freezes at the water temperature of -2C. Continue reading
The piece by Editor-In-Chief in National Geographic Russia Alexander Grek is dedicated to photographers, the most important people of the Magazine, he said.
Our leader, photographer Viktor Lyagushkin is amongst them. Thank you, Alexander, for your warm words, we are proud to work with you and your Magazine. And hope our collaboration will be even more fruitful in the future.
N-Photo Magazine #20 (6/2013)
Undine
“People cannot fly, but underwater they may feel weightless. That is why the director of a movie based on a popular Russian fairy tale decided to film a scene of a fight between the Swan Princess and Wicked Wizard-Kite underwater.
I had been invited as a backstage underwater photographer and found the Swan Princess was more than charming. I couldn’t use any lights as these would spoil the scene, but the studio light board was more than enough to create a beautiful backlight underwater, and the chromakey backing formed a nicely textured backdrop.”
Nikon D3S, Nikon AF 16mm f/2.8 D Fisheye, 1/400 sec, f/4, ISO800, Subal housing
photo by Viktor Lyagushkin