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Seal enjoying the mud at Walton back waters.
Going to Bempton cliffs for a few days, it's somewhere I've always wanted to go! So consequently I won't be posting anything for a few days, but I'll try and keep an eye on everyone's posts! Just praying for some decent weather and plenty of local ale!
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."
info-internet
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.
Happy monochrome Thursday !
This Western Sandpiper steps through the mud, looking for food. Its bill is muddy too, showing plenty of dredging through the mud for the bivalves they love to eat which are right at the surface.
Taken 7 May 2021 at Homer, Alaska.
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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The Fabled "Mud Cracks" of Death Valley during an early spring sunrise.
After getting a couple good shots on the card, here in Death Valley, I started to move around and explore the area a little more. The best spots were already covered by other photographers. I found this spot with a nice crack and quickly pulled up the center column and set up my tripod to shoot horizontally so that I could spread out the legs and shot as low as the tripod could go as to capitalize on the crack. One good thing about having all those photogs there is you always have a subject to use for scale, that is if if you don't mind using photoshop to clone them out, i just shoot all the other guys in there and remove them later in post. That's what I did, I removed 3 other guys from the shot but left this one in for scale. Don't let the crowd keep you from getting a shot.
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Jardín, Antioquia, Colombia
The spectacularly bizarre Andean Cock-of-the-rock is perhaps the most popularly recognized bird of the cloud forests of the Andes Mountains.
Distributed from Venezuela to Bolivia in the Andes, this species is readily identified by its fan-shaped crest and brilliant orange plumage. Males spend much of their time displaying at leks, where they jump up and down on particular branches and utter low, guttural croaks. The name is derived from their preference for rocks and ledges as substrates for their mud cup nests.
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Large group of elephants having an absolute BLAST in a local mud hole. It was pretty dry at Hluhluwe- Lmfolozi safari park. It badly needed much more rain, but these beautiful creatures were living in the moment and it was wonderful to see.
It was supremely hot! Elephants bathe in mud to cool down their bodies due to very few sweat glands. They struggle to regulate their temperature so the mud acts as a natural sunscreen, protecting their skin from the harsh sunlight while also providing a barrier against insects and parasites.
Photographed in Hluhluwe-Lmfolozi National Park, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
The twin keels keep her upright until she refloats on the high tide. At first glance this looks like a 'Colin Archer' clinker-built day boat; closer inspection reveals its a modern fibreglass construction but she's very pretty all the same! Taken with Polaroid SX-70 Alpha 1 on Polaroid (TIP) B&W film at Sunderland Point, River Lune, Lancashire.
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.
Aperture: f8
ISO: 800
SS: 1/250th
Focal: 560mm
Fujinon 100-400mm TC 1.4X
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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.
I hope everyone's slider sunday is going well.
Another from the Saturday outing with John Cothron. This is Mud Creek Falls in Georgia's highest city, Sky Valley.
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. :)
It took two years to get this Beetle transformed into off road. In the end I got a chance to drive this beauty in the mud.
Photo taken in Bacupari, Mostardas RS, Brazil.
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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The small fractures in the mud are caused by ice crystals which melt as soon as the temperature gets above freezing.
Blackie Spit Park is a stunning City park located in the Crescent Beach neighbourhood of South Surrey. The park is named after the dramatic spit that extends into Mud Bay at the mouth of the Nicomekl River. Blackie Spit has amazing views of Mud Bay and the North Shore Mountains.
The weather forecast looked favorable in NE Georgia so we decided to try to get to five waterfalls in a day earlier this week. Very fun day. This is my first posting from it.
I saw a posting of Mud Creek Falls in NE Georgia recently. I've visited that area several times but had never heard of it so decided to check it out.
Mud Creek is really very nice. We had pretty decent overcast skies but there was some sun popping into the scene at times. A nice thing about this falls is that there is no hiking needed. It is located at the end of a road with several parking places available. Composition possibilities are a bit slim as you're limited in moving around. Definitely one to see if you're in that area.
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Walking around in a salt flat can feel like visiting an alien world. In Death Valley, it often feels that way. On this particular day I ventured out into a familiar section of the salt flat which, while it might be the same place I’ve visited before, it never looks the same. The casual drive-through experience might lead one to think that Death Valley is a static and unchanging desert world but close examination and repeat visits will show you how much change occurs here on a very human time scale. Out here in the mud on this day water had collected into small circular bowls from perhaps a relatively recent rain. The ground is surprisingly saturated here. It is always mud, the kind that tries to hitch a ride with you as your shoes swell to comical mud proportions. The salty mud glistened with specular reflections of the blue sunny sky but the lack of white crystals suggested the concentration was much smaller here. The scene works as a black and white study of this brown world, emphasizing the textures and cracks and abrupt contrast of the water.