My feature story in DIVER magazine looks so beautiful and inspiring.
It tells of the difficulties we had to overcome in order to complete the project, about what is happening behind the scenes, well, you will know more reading the piece.
photo: Vladimir Babenko
The PHOTOTEAM.PRO presented to the general diving public their last project #Seagull during the Moscow Dive Show 2017 which took place in early February. Incomparable Natalie Avseenko told about all the twists and turns that had to overcome the team members to complete the project. Also Natalie showed movies on the big screen: music video #Seagull and the documentary #Seagull: Finding of Wings.
photo: Vladimir Babenko
A drop of Georgian mood by me and Viktor Lyagushkin in the Canadian Magazine DIVER (v 41, #8).
With its old traditions of hospitality, Georgia is one of my favourite countries in the world. Wish you, my reader, to visit in Georgia some day and dive one of its unique diving locations.
Just visited Moscow office of the Red Bull company, where we were happy to receive a copy of the book with photographs choosed by Jury of the Red Bull Illume 2016 Contest, with amazing photo by Viktor Lyagushkin Accountant with free diver Igor Azhykin sitting at the office table under the ice of Tver Quarry. According to results of the contest Viktor became a semifinalist in category Spirit.
The book has a limited circulation not for sell. The proud owners of all the copies are winners, finalists and semifinalists of the contest. Viktor’s copy has a number #0329.
Friday, December 16, 2016 the opening of the 20-th International Underwater Film Festival in Belgrade started with our short movie #Seagull. At Sunday night I received an email with winners list, where I found my name and movie’s title.
1st place in the Independent Category on one of the oldest festivals of underwater movies! I still cannot believe that my debut get such a high estimation!
It is the victory of the entire team: operators Kirill Ivanov and Andrei Vertogradov; safety divers Andrei Dmitriev and Andrei Kenkurogov, the support team on the surface, a friendly team Wind Channel, which helped with the post-production. And of course, the incomparable Natalie Avseenko that perfectly played the role of Seagull.
Congratulations to all participants; to everyone who supported us on Boomstarter; all companies that provided technical support: the company Nikon (Russia), SUBAL Underwater Housings (Austria), SanDisk (Russia) and Scurion (Switzerland).
To catch a glance at a #Seagull leading the list of winners at the Festival site click here
Just came to an end the TOUCH Conference on digital marketing technologies in Tbilisi, Georgia. Many thanks to organisers for the invitation to participate. We were very glad to share our experience with young people of Georgia who visited the conference; happy to meet new friends and partners.
Didi madloba!
Our most important project of this year with Natalie Avseenko – the #Seagull Project is nominated by Risk.ru Portal Editors for the Crystal Peak Award – 2016 in the category “Outdoor Project”.
The Crystal Peak Award has been held for 10 years, and we are very pleased to be among the nominees in this anniversary year. The winner will be determined by secret ballot, so we just have to keep fingers crossed. By the end of the month we will know the winner!
A small stuff in National Geographic (Russia) Magazine (November 2016) about the amazing inhabitant of the Lake of Baikal – gastropods turriformis. Photo: Viktor Lyagushkin, text by me, your humble servant.
Special thanks to Professor Dmitry Shcherbakov for an entertaining night conversation about snails 🙂
One of the most famous Viktor Lyagushkin’s photo from Blue Lake (Kabardino-Balkaria Russia) appeared on the cover of the magazine Ogonyok №40, October 10, 2016.
As a child, I was looking forward to meeting with the magazine, there were so many interesting things to read! And when it was read from cover to cover, we started to work a famous Ogonyok’s crossword. I now understand that the name of the magazine is foolish, in Soviet times it was used for printed media. But “Ogonyok” has become so iconic that now its name should be pronounced with aspiration. And to be on its cover is a great honor. But I caught myself on the fact that I do not want to read the material to which the photograph relates, but more want to solve a crossword puzzle. Yes, the one on the last page.
This week we have a good news: Viktor became a semifinalist of the Red Bull Illume Image Quest 2016 Semifinal in the Spirit category with his UW photo Assistant. We are so proud of him!