By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Inside.
Inside is safe
but nothing gets done. Sometimes you just have to come out
and engage the world.
These are Florida Fighting Conches. More photos are here.
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Wind Against Current by Vladimir Brezina and Johna Till Johnson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.Authors
Vladimir Brezina (RIP)
... kayaked the waters around New York for more than 15 years in his red Feathercraft folding kayak. He was originally from (the former) Czechoslovakia and lived in the U.K. and California before settling down in New York. He was a neuroscientist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He died in 2016.Johna Till Johnson
... is a kayaker and technology researcher at Nemertes Research. She's an erstwhile engineer, particle physicist, and science fiction writer. She was born in California and has lived in Italy, Norway, Hawaii, and a few other places. She currently resides in New York City.Recent Comments
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Wind Against Current 
They are beautiful!
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They were! :-)
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WOw
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:-)
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Beautiful photo! What a find! I always used to put the shell next to my ear to “hear” the sea!
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So did I… but by that time there’s really nothing inside :-(
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Fabulous shots. Love the lighting, the moment, everything.
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Thank you!! :-)
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What ever next? Great close up, strange little creatures.
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Strange, but kind of endearing—we can relate to them. You should see some insects close up ;-)
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The second one is great!!!! Looks so human!!! like saying..”Hmmm, lets see what is here…But with a lot of care…Before anyone notices me..”
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Exactly! And this one
always reminds me of Marty Feldman…
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Ha ha ha….So funny!!! :) :)
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Just love his little eyeballs !
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Independently movable, too! :-)
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I know ..its a great series Vlad!
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Thanks! :-)
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You have out-done yourself this time! Amazing shot!
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The subject was very cooperative… :-)
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Marty Feldman it is ;-)
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Eyes on stalks, going in opposite directions… could be nobody else!
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LOL
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That’s interesting. Did they fight in slow motion? Cool!
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Actually, it’s not clear which of the first two Fs it would have been, had they touched each other—so perhaps it was the third F, in very slow motion…
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Great shots!
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Thanks!!
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What?! I had no idea that conches were so appealing…they look like little cartoon characters!! Love the pics.
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Time for Disney to make the movie! ;-)
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Oh my, I love those little eyes and those funny cartoony faces!!
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Very anthropomorphic, indeed :-)
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Intriguing shots! What made the ripple in the water in the first picture of the link from 2012?
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The conch. They release bubbles…
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Why, of course! I was thinking it was something from the outside hitting the water. But their movement and all that suction action – they are more active than we often realize. Thank you…
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They moved surprisingly fast when they wanted to :-)
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amazing capture :)
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Thanks! :-)
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I’ve never seen the animals that inhabit these shells before. Great photos!
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Well, that’s what they look like :-) Thanks, Angeline!
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Great photos and you had patience to get them out. Great!
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They were just doing their thing, not minding spectators at all. But yes, everything was in pretty slow motion…
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Such funny photos, the second one looks so shy and yet curious. I love his little beady eyes :-)
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Shy yet curious, exactly :-)
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great inside!
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Thanks!!
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AMAZING PHOTOS. Never saw the animal inside before.
BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!
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Thanks, Francine!
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That’s a great “face” in the second photo.
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Yes, and in some of the others that I took, such as the one I posted in the comments above :-)
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Beautiful photographs and beautiful thought. First time seeing the inside of a conch.
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What they let you see of the inside, anyway :-) Thanks, Indira!
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I was wondering, how did you manage?
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I didn’t do anything—just waited for them to do whatever they were going to do. They seemed to be completely unconcerned by, and even unaware of, having spectators…
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Vlad, this is fantastic — as always!
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Thanks, Shaanthz—glad you like it!
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Fantastic shots !
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Thanks!!
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Love this set of pictures. I’ve never seen the creature within conch before. Marie
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I hadn’t really seen much of them before this occasion, either. But they are very appealing :-)
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Interesting Captures Indeed..loved the.. ;)
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Thanks! :-
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Wow, they have eyes and they look blue.
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Now all they need, for the Disney movie, are long eyelashes ;-)
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Amazing. I have never seen the creature inside, just the shells.
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It seemed like most people there hadn’t taken the time to watch them before either…
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Oh my gosh. That second shot of the peek-a-boo-check-’round-the-corner conch just made me laugh. Thanks for posting these! :-)
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You are welcome! Yes, I picked that one out especially :-)
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Love those little guys!
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:-)
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What a great idea for the theme! Had a quick scroll through your blog, and overall you have great pictures and themes! I will enjoy having a better read here with time :) Thanks, for popping into my blog, so I found yours!
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That’s what these challenges are mostly good for! Thanks for stopping by, and thanks for following our blog—lots more to come! :-)
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Great photos of capturing the little creature peeping out of his home!
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Thanks!!
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You take the best pictures! Do you sit around and wait for them? Or do they set themselves up as you approach with your camera?
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Well, it’s pretty clear that sitting around and waiting for them isn’t a productive approach at all. If you never go out (literally or metaphorically) and take pictures, you’ll never have any good ones. And even when do go out, actively searching for them is much better than passively waiting for them to appear…
Come to think of it, that’s what this post is sort of about :-)
Beyond that, we reach deep waters. Does the photographer record, or create? Lots of answers to that question, most of them contradictory. A subject for another post, perhaps… ;-)
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Have only had them in soup . . . now I’m sorry I did. Great shots, cute critters. Thanks.
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No reason why they can’t be cute and tasty ;-)
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THIS is glorious! Love it. Such delicate little guys, captured so beautifully.
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Thanks so much!! :-)
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You are so welcome! ;-)
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Fighting conches? Now tell me that doesn’t sound like a sports team mascot. But what sport? The Florida Fighting Conches vs. _______?
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It does, doesn’t it? Water polo?
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My goodness! You got them just as they were peaking from their shells. What timing! Did you use a zoom?
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Didn’t need any precise timing, really—they just kept on doing their thing, slowly, ignoring me completely :-)
Yes, I think all these were taken with my telephoto zoom, in all the closeups at around 300mm, probably…
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I’ve never found one with the resident still living there. Great captures.
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Here all the shells were occupied, none empty :-)
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Blue-eyed fighting conches?
Offspring of Marty Feldman and a sea nymph?
Who knew!
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Who indeed? It clearly needs further investigation…
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It’s a beautiful and fantastic. Where did you made that shots ? I’m living in France. :)
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St. Pete Beach, on the Gulf side of Florida. Glad you like them! :-)
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Thank you your anwer :) I ‘ll look it on google maps. I prefer, I have a visual memory :)
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