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Various butterflies mud-puddling in the Kaeng Krachan National Park, Thailand. In flight is a common bluebottle.
Wikipedia: Graphium sarpedon, the common bluebottle or blue triangle in Australia, is a species of swallowtail butterfly that is found in South and Southeast Asia, as well as eastern Australia. There are approximately sixteen subspecies with differing geographical distributions.
Mud-puddling, or simply puddling, is a behavior most conspicuous in butterflies, but occurs in other animals as well, mainly insects; they seek out nutrients in certain moist substances such as rotting plant matter, mud and carrion and they suck up the fluid.
"Mud walking (in Dutch: wadlopen) is an exciting and adventurous way of acquainting oneself with a unique nature reserve, the Wadden Sea, also the largest continuous national park in Europe. During low-tide, shallows fall dry making it possible to cross the bottom of the sea.
These shallows consist of sandbanks, criss-crossed with trenches and gullies. During a typical mud walk, hikers wrestle through miles of mire and thigh-deep brown mud, wade through channels of waist high water before arriving on one of the islands in the Wadden Sea."
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Make sure you have a guided tour and only when the weather conditions are right!
For now it was nice to make a very short walk ;-)) The Wadden Sea is such a great place to visit if you love nature and silence.
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Mud-puddling is a feeding behaviour displayed by butterflies. Although they primarily feed on nectar they seek out other essential nutrients including minerals and amino acids in moist substances such as rotting plant matter and mud. Where the conditions are suitable, butterflies form aggregations while mud-puddling.
There are six species of butterflies in this photo taken at Phnom Kulen National Park, Cambodia. I have identified two species. The large butterflies are yellow helens, Papilio nephelus. The white butterfly in flight is the same as the yellow and white butterflies with a dark edge at the edge of their wings. They are chocolate albatrosses, Appias lyncida.
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There is an almost alive quality with fresh-molded mud that makes me want to cry when someone has gone slip-sliding across its folds and joints. I try to leave it as I found it to delight the next person who chooses to admire its unique beauty.
Something different today....
Many swallows built these impressive and unique mud nests on one side of Yellowstone's Soda Butte.
For some reason they didn't stick around to pose for me....
Soda Butte in comments.
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House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) When you have a bath in a muddy puddle even the splashes are muddy!
Freeport, Maine - Freeport is of course known for LL Bean, but if you venture out of town, you will find some lovely Casco Bay scenery and maybe even some clam diggers at low tide.
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Not the clearest of shots, but it gives you an idea how much horses enjoy the stuff. This is Olè having fun.
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We are fortunate to have Bear Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Idaho, here in the valley, just a 15 minute drive from home. I didn't have any luck finding wildlife there today, so looked for landscapes and found this mud circle. The area is a salty mud flat where I have photographed acres of bright red pickleweed in the past. Today most of the plants were gone, leaving a soggy mud flat and a few mysterious circles like this one. Each circle has a cluster of dead plants in the center. I suspect that the area around each plant is a little higher that the mud around it, so it has dried more than the rest of the mud flat, forming a light colored circle. The dark mud was still wet and sticky, so my hiking boots are a caked, muddy mess.
After spending the day at the Knoxville Zoo, far from home, it was nice to get back into my old stomping ground, and bring my friend back to experience nature in a different way. This of course is one of the elk I have been documenting for the past few years with my photography, strong, proud, antlers not symmetrical, and in this case, covered in mud. I managed to miss the large animal thrashing in the mud puddle, though the ranger I stopped to talk to gave me a full account. Of course this individual was apparently giddy for the rut a bit early, and was making a bit of a scene, despite that, I gathered my wits about me, and began capturing fresh images.
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Mud plugging, or
sporting trials, is an off-road motor-sport that involves driving a specialised vehicle through steep, muddy courses, prioritising skill and control over speed.
In this case speed is far less important than staying upright.
I bet he wished he had stayed on the roadway.
Mid Devon Show, Knightshayes Court, Tiverton, Devon, UK.
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Was going through old photos and came across the original of this (see below) and a photoshopped version from that time period. I decided I'd like to rework it, and so brought the photoshopped version into the Develop module of Lr where I slud the shadows all the way to the right, and made it black and white. Oh, and cropped it a bit.
Then it was exported as a brand new Ps file. First, as usual, luminosity based channels were created in the channels panel, using information from Tony Kuyper.
An adjustment layer for photo filter was created next. I wanted to create a duotone, and so filters were used to create reddish tones and masked to only allow them to affect lighter mid tones and blue was used with masking to only allow that effect on darker mid tones.
In a screen shot of the photo below, one can see the expanded Layers panel and the expanded Channels panel. The Channels panel shows the luminosity based channels created using information from Tony Kuyper. These channels aren't the ones originally created. At times I would delete all of them and create new ones as the photo changed over time.
In the Layers panel one can see the photo filter layers with the masks created from the channels, so that the filter effects are constrained to particular luminosity based pixels.
Next are dodge burn layers. They are 50% grey filled, set to soft light blend mode so they are invisible. But if white or black is painted on them, it's akin to dodging and burning. One of the things I have taken from Tony Kuyper's information is the use of those luminosity based channels, creating self feathering selections and painting "through" them onto an active layer like a dodge burn, with lowered opacities of white or black to build the effect that is desired.
Then there are Curves adjustment layers to lighten some of the darkest pixels. Then more dodge burn layers.
There are more photo filter layers placing color in certain areas, some based in lighter pixels, some in dark, and some in mid tones. Again constrained by the use of those luminosity based channels, some subtracted from others.
I often use the high pass filter to create sharpening. Generally I use the luminosity based channels to create a mask preventing the high pass filter from affecting the lighter pixels. This time, I used those channels to prevent the high pass filter from affecting the dark pixels and only affect the light pixels. I wanted some extreme effects. And actually copied the high pass layer so it was doubled in its effect.
And when looking at the original image, the result is pretty extreme. Press L to view full screen.
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Out in the woods of Georgia is Sky Valley, a somewhat fancy leisure community and golf course that seems out of place. When you enter Sky Valley, it seems like any waterfalls would have disappeared with the buildup of the community, but off in a corner of Sky Valley is Mud Creek Falls. It’s actually a very pretty waterfall that is easy to access and even has a little picnic area next to it.
Another from the Saturday outing with John Cothron. This is Mud Creek Falls in Georgia's highest city, Sky Valley.
I was walking along the Georges River where I was fortunate to come accross this unscathed dried mud feature left by the recent rain. I say fortunate because the path is regularly used by dogs and their owners and it looks like most but not all, were avoiding the muddy conditions. How many different animal tracks can you see?
What you get when walking around in a muddy cow pasture, Mud Socks as shown by this Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)
I met up at some ridiculous hour in the middle of the night to go take photographs this morning with Steve (Stoates-Findhorn) and Iain (Highlandscape). Once we got to the parking spot we were informed by Steve that we had about a kilometre to walk, nothing too strenuous I thought, well you all know what thought did!! We walked for what seemed like ages through all sorts of terrain including mud! Every time we turned a corner of the coast the said Steve would say it should be here, I ask myself what?? I have to say Iain and I came very close to burying him in the mud and finding the nearest cafe, had it not been so early believe me the option would have been seriously considered!
With some regret after all the effort I have to say this is the best of my sunrise shots.........
I love the many patterns that are created in mud and sand in all it's stages, wet, dried and cracked, flowing patterns. I can get lost for hours. These mud formations caught my attention because of how the sky was reflected in the wet areas. Artistic liberty taken to enhance it. :)
Fourteenth picture of the series Canes & Mud.
(Just another day of previous photoshoot, I tryed another to shot the old boats at sunset)
Magical sunset in this beautiful place that is the Albufera of Valencia.
The image title is because during the photoshoot, surrounded by all this beauty, calm water, boat, reeds, mud, tranquility, flying birds ... every moment reminded me a lot to the great novel "Cañas y Barro" of the great Valencian writer Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, set in rural Valencia (Albufera) of the early twentieth century, the novel observes and portrays the social reality of the time and place with absolute precision.
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I can spend days appreciating the varied landscape of the desert. One place that I yearn to visit, any opportunity I get, is the Death Valley National Park. It’s easy to get lost in its vast beauty and takes some time to see the infinite lines, curves, cracks, and textures. The fun thing with mud cracks is, move your camera slightly, and you have a completely different composition. If it’s helpful, when I point my camera over the cracks, I look for a prominent shape as a focal point and use the surrounding lines to create a visual flow leading towards the background.
The name of Yellowstone National Park's "Mud Volcano" feature and the surrounding area is misleading; it consists of hot springs, mud pots and fumaroles, rather than a true mud volcano. Depending upon the precise definition of the term mud volcano, the Yellowstone formation could be considered a hydrothermal mud volcano cluster. The feature is much less active than in its first recorded description, although the area is quite dynamic. Yellowstone is an active geothermal area with a magma chamber near the surface, and active gases are chiefly steam, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide.[8]
The mud volcano in Yellowstone was previously a mound, until suddenly, it tore itself apart into the formation seen today.[9]
Source: Wikipedia
None of the above takes away from the sense of awe and beauty seen in this majestic area.
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