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Dancer // Giant octopus Dofleini by Boris Pamikov
Dancer
// Giant octopus Dofleini
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date posted posted: Saturday, May 19, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Marine Life
date posted location: Sea of Japan Russia
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Octopus Hunter / Giant octopus Dofleini by Boris Pamikov
Octopus Hunter
/ Giant octopus Dofleini
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date posted posted: Thursday, May 17, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Natural Light (no strobe)
date posted location: Sea of Japan Russia
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Different World / three-stripe rock-fish / No Photoshop... by Boris Pamikov
Different World
/ three-stripe rock-fish
/ No Photoshopped - only chemical processing
7 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, May 17, 2012
date posted category: Creative - Manipulated (Photoshopped)
date posted location: Sea of Japan Russia
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little gastropods by Yiyong Yoon
little gastropods
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, May 9, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sea of Japan Korea, Republic of
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I'll be watching over you /wreck superintendent / frin... by Boris Pamikov
I'll be watching over you
/wreck superintendent / fringed blenny
35 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, November 5, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Sea of Japan Russia
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No fishes :-( / three fishing boats at turning buoy look... by Boris Pamikov
No fishes :-(
/ three fishing boats at turning buoy look like a tearful snowman :-)
25 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, October 27, 2011
date posted category: Humorous
date posted location: Sea of Japan Russia
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Extreme close-up :-) / Giant octopus Dofleini by Boris Pamikov
Extreme close-up :-)
/ Giant octopus Dofleini
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, October 23, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Sea of Japan Russia
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Fat-guts Fat greenling / Rock trout by Boris Pamikov
Fat-guts
Fat greenling / Rock trout
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, October 22, 2011
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sea of Japan Russia
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Blackspot ronquil female on mussel / Bathymaster derjugi... by Boris Pamikov
Blackspot ronquil female on mussel
/ Bathymaster derjugini
23 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, October 20, 2011
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Sea of Japan Russia
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I live here... / elegant sculpin by Boris Pamikov
I live here...
/ elegant sculpin
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, October 20, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Marine Life
date posted location: Sea of Japan Russia
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Kama Sutra // spawning of starfishes / Asterias amurensi... by Boris Pamikov
Kama Sutra // spawning of starfishes
/ Asterias amurensis / Japanese starfish
shortlistedShortlisted!
42 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, October 19, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Marine Life
date posted location: Sea of Japan Russia
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Sorry, I mix up my legs today... after party / Giant oct... by Boris Pamikov
Sorry, I mix up my legs today... after party
/ Giant octopus Dofleini
26 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, October 4, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Marine Life
date posted location: Sea of Japan Russia
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I am scary and fearless... / Bathymaster derjugin, Black... by Boris Pamikov
I am scary and fearless...
/ Bathymaster derjugin, Blackspot ronquil / male
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36 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, October 3, 2011
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Sea of Japan Russia
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Buddy... after dive with octopus on Boisman reef Thank... by Boris Pamikov
Buddy...
after dive with octopus on Boisman reef
Thanks to both of them :-)
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, October 3, 2011
date posted category: Over/Under (shots half topside, half U/W)
date posted location: Sea of Japan Russia
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very pregnant and very curious / spiny dogfish by Boris Pamikov
very pregnant and very curious
/ spiny dogfish
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, October 1, 2011
date posted category: Sharks
date posted location: Sea of Japan Russia
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Sad fish / Snowy sculpin by Boris Pamikov
Sad fish
/ Snowy sculpin
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16 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, September 30, 2011
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sea of Japan Russia
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Brilliance /Dybowskis sand eel, Naked sand lance by Boris Pamikov
Brilliance
/Dybowskis sand eel, Naked sand lance
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, September 30, 2011
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Sea of Japan Russia
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Hände hoch!!! :-) / selfportrait on Snell's window back... by Boris Pamikov
Hände hoch!!! :-)
/ selfportrait on Snell's window background
27 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 27, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Divers
date posted location: Sea of Japan Russia
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What you need? / white-edged rockfish by Boris Pamikov
What you need?
/ white-edged rockfish
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28 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 27, 2011
date posted category: Macro - swimming
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just beautifull / Lion's Mane Jellyfish by Boris Pamikov
just beautifull
/ Lion's Mane Jellyfish
34 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 25, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Marine Life
date posted location: Sea of Japan Russia
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Hypnosis by Boris Pamikov
Hypnosis
33 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, September 24, 2011
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sea of Japan Russia
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Shepherd / Spiny dogfish by Boris Pamikov
Shepherd
/ Spiny dogfish
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, September 23, 2011
date posted category: Sharks
date posted location: Sea of Japan Russia
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threestripe rockfish & hidden young octopus by Boris Pamikov
threestripe rockfish & hidden young octopus
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date posted posted: Friday, September 23, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Sea of Japan Russia
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Moon in Sun Rays :-) / Aurelia aurita /moon jelly by Boris Pamikov
Moon in Sun Rays :-)
/ Aurelia aurita /moon jelly
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, September 22, 2011
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sea of Japan Russia
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fingerling under protection / Lion's Mane Jellyfish by Boris Pamikov
fingerling under protection
/ Lion's Mane Jellyfish
28 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, September 21, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Marine Life
date posted location: Sea of Japan Russia
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Levitation / Giant octopus Dofleini by Boris Pamikov
Levitation
/ Giant octopus Dofleini
Gold Medal Gold Medal 2011
3rd place Monthly HotShots
Final RoundThrough to 2011 awards final round judging

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
That's a big one. Bear in mind though that wide angle lenses exaggerate perspective - so always shoot the critter in front of the diver
46 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, September 19, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Sea of Japan Russia
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life lines / comb jelly, sea gooseberry, sea walnut, or ... by Boris Pamikov
life lines
/ comb jelly, sea gooseberry, sea walnut, or Venus's girdles
32 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, September 17, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Marine Life
date posted location: Sea of Japan Russia
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