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The conference I’m attending here in Atlanta had an opening reception at the Georgia Aquarium last night. I took a couple of pix of the event for my magazine, but also tried to get some neat pix of the fishkes themselves. My dad was a photographer for much of his career, but I don’t think he ever had to shoot catfish from below. Anyway, enjoy the set<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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Some of the guys I was walking around with argued over whether piranha (above)<\/em> would actually go<\/em> for prey as large as an overweight person, and I wondered whether you could get them to stop after they whittled away some of the fat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The conference I’m attending here in Atlanta had an opening reception at the Georgia Aquarium last night. I took a couple of pix of the event for my magazine, but also tried to get some neat pix of the fishkes themselves. My dad was a photographer for much of his career, but I don’t think … <\/p>\n

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