Jobs: Andrey Andreev, Founder Paganel Studio

What do you do in your work?

My main occupation is to organize expeditions and travels around the world, from Antarctica to Greenland and from Papua to Amazon.

Reading in childhood books by Jules Verne and Thor Heyerdahl, I could not conceive that ever carried the dreams of adventure expeditions. But in 2011, my wife and I have created a project Paganel StudioAnd now embody in life is not only their dreams, but dreams of thousands of people. Those who have been with us in the travel, transmit information about us by word of mouth. Until the end of 2016 seven more scheduled trips (there are only five free seats), for 2017 is scheduled 26 th expedition, some of which are already occupied.

I dream of traveling into space.

Most of our activity takes creative component. We make small rolls and complete documentaries on our travels and about the planet.

Also remove a huge amount of photographic materialAnd make reports in the magazines for free. My wife Olga paints. We are preparing several books and albums.

All this is Paganel Studio - the creative symbiosis of the foregoing. Apart from me and Oli, our team another 10 people.

What is your occupation?

Always interested in history and geography. So when preparing for university entrance, standing in front of goal. But still I decided to go to the Faculty of History. He specialized in modern and contemporary history of Afghanistan.

I am inspired by nature and the universe.

Now the way of life and work does not coincide with the profile of my education. But the basic knowledge acquired at university in handy when creating some of our TV projects. For example, travel to China, Peru, Mexico, Nepal, India and other countries were built on the basis of their history.

Academic education, in my opinion, the correct thing, since that forms the basis of the moral, life and cultural values, with which a person goes on through life. Five years spent in university, more than compensated in the future.

What should know and be able professional traveler?

A professional in the field of travel (just in expeditions format) must first pass itself its way around the planet. You can not lead people, not knowing what awaits them in front, having no experience. In our business experience it is one of the most important components.

The second and equally important - is the ability to be a leader and have a certain charisma that could lead people and it was interesting. With us travel is very diverse, versatile and strong personalities, and on whether you establish contact with them, sometimes to the success of the expedition. A particularly challenging, as, for example, in Antarctica on yachts or jungle Papua to tribes cannibals.

What are your strengths and weaknesses?

Success in our business help:

• A creative approach to projects. Always I try to do things their own way, interesting, original.
• The ability to collect, analyze and transform information. This is important in the preparation of travel. As well as the tenacity and perseverance.
• Curiosity and openness to other cultures and peoples, the ability to smile in response to aggression.

Also to their strengths attribute decency, discipline, ability to make quick decisions and willingness to overcome the difficulties and hardships.

Weaknesses are:

• Excessive sensibility and temper in relation to close. To those who are dear to me, I show increased requirements, it's probably not necessary.
• Always I trust people until they give occasion to make the return. In our difficult time, it can be called a weak feature, although controversial.
• Sometimes I am lazy to do things that I currently do not very interesting, but necessary for the company. More began to read a little. If you suddenly have some free time, I can just look up at the sky and dream.

How does your workplace?

Home my workplace - a table with a large monitor, which work with photos and movies.

But most of the time, about nine months of the year, my wife and I spend on travel. There's workplace can be a chair in an airplane or car, a table in a cafe or a hotel room, a box from under the water, which you can put your laptop somewhere in the desert of Namibia or in the jungles of the Amazon.

When traveling with me always the laptop. Now I use a 13-inch ultrabook Asus. Plus two portable hard drives of 1TB each duplicating the captured information on the external battery 30 000 mAh and two Nokia phones. The main requirement for phones - not to be afraid of falling and hold a charge for five or six days.

Well, a bunch of photographic equipment with which we move. We have a lot of shooting, and no equipment anywhere. Although it is sometimes necessary to leave the house quadrocopter, since not all countries have to let him. For example, we are now in Venezuela, where he was to bring us strongly not recommended.

On the laptop stands Windows. Browser - Google Chrome. Mail - Gmail and "Yandex". But more recently, Gmail sends a lot of letters from mail services such as Mail.ru and "Yandex" in spam, so more likely to work with "by Yandex".

Since we have an expedition with a large number of participants (sometimes up to 30 people), we pre-occupied by the hotel and airfare. To find tickets recommend resource Momondo, and for Accommodation - Booking and Agoda.

With photos work in Adobe Photoshop, movie - in Adobe Premiere and After Effects. we refer often to these programs.

Paganel Studio main activities are conducting through Facebook and our website.

Is there a place in your paper work?

Often have to print out lists of commands, some important details and items, boarding passes, tickets, insurance. Therefore, paper is used actively, but the double to electronic versions.

Notepad too I use. And for some time even got himself a recorder to quickly capture an idea that came to mind during a long flight or relocation.

What is in your bag?

While traveling I always carry a bag with a laptop and two backpacks. One - fotoryukzak weighing 18 kilograms. In it lie Cameras Canon 1DX and Canon 1 Dx Mark II, Canon 24-70 lens, Canon 100-400, Canon 16-35, Canon 135, Canon 24, 28-300 Canon with additional filters, batteries, card readers, memory cards, wires, and so recharges Further.

In the second backpack - quadrocopter DJI Phantom 4. He's, by the way, is the fourth. First drowned in Lake Titicaca, the second crashed in Namibia.

That's about looks all set equipment. Approximately, because this picture for two years and during that time there have been changes.

How do you organize your time?

In our case it is impossible to exist without the short-term and long-term plans. In June and July we will publish a calendar for the next year. Many travel has to be prepared in advance, such as an expedition yacht in French Polynesia, where yachts can be booked for a couple of years. For long-term and medium-term planning using «Google. The calendar".

My daily routine is also a complex topic. Due to the constant movement between time zones encounter jet lag. Get into the rhythm of local life - is always a problem. Last year was a case where we are after Antarctica and Patagonia, with a slight stop at home went to Vietnam. Even the clock does not have to translate. The difference was exactly 12 hours.

More detail: we Olya photos taken at sensitive light (sunrise and sunset), if conditions allow, to work at night. The benefit of the two owls. But in some places the dawn of the planet can not be missed: they insanely beautiful. Here rescues Service.

How to pass the time in traffic jams?

Downtime often it happens during the inconsistencies in the airports. Then the problem - to find a normal internet connection, so you can work on. As always with the heels of fresh and interesting films, and on the phone - playlist from 550 favorite songs.

Music is very important in the long hikes and crossings.

With me always traveling mobile column from JBL.

What's your hobby?

Once the main and favorite hobbies are traveling and photography. Now, I am doing this on a regular basis. Previously, skydiving, paragliding, extreme sports but now missing in my life. After all our travels - this is not the gatherings at the pool in a five star hotel. :)

Collect all sorts of artifacts cultures of the peoples of the world: masks, shields, arrows, items breeding items. All of them have some sort of unique history and it is interesting.

Previously, we brought from travel magnets for the refrigerator, but soon had to buy another fridge.

What place sport occupies in your life?

Sport and normal physical condition is very important. it is impossible to build a system of training because of the constant trips. But hiking, outings to various interesting points of the planet does not allow the body to relax much.

Layfhakerstvo by Andrey Andreev

books

Literature that I read and read, linked to travel, geography, history, mysteries of the planet.

I can recommend the work of the legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl "Journey to the "Kon-Tiki"», «Ra», «Aku-Aku», «Fatu Hiva. Return to nature" and others. Miroslav Stingl book about the history of ancient civilizations and indigenous cultures, "Indians without tomahawks", "Glory and Death of the Sun's sons", "Mysterious Polynesia."

Of modern scholars are very interested in the work of the British author Graham Hancock "Fingerprints of the Gods. In search of the origins of ancient civilizations», «Mars mystery. Story sunset two worlds», «Supernatural. Gods and demons evolution», «heaven mirror. In search of a lost civilization ...».

Also, the traveler must know the following authors:

• Jiri Hanzelka and Miroslav Zikmund "For hunters skulls»;
• Ramsay, Raymond "The discoveries that never happened";
• Anatoly Boukreev and G. Weston DeUolt "Everest. lethal climbing»;
• Nikolai Maclay "Traveling on the Maclay Coast»;
• Michel Peissel "gold ants»;
• Robyn Davidson "Journey never ends";
• Vivian Fuchs and Edmund Hillary "across Antarctica».

Movies

People who love nature and our planet, of course, have to look at movies directors such as Yann Arthus-Bertrand ( "House. travel history, "" Planet Ocean "," Man "), Gregory Colbert (" Ashes and Snow "), Jacques Perrin (" Oceans "," Birds "," The Four Seasons "), Claude Nuridzani (" Microcosmos ").

What is your life motto?

Any dream can be realized! The main thing - to take a step toward her.

To realize themselves, do not need to wait for someone for you to learn or work something out. Your dreams and desires will not come to you if you're sitting at home watching television. You need to meet all your wishes!