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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."
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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.
Happy monochrome Thursday !
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.
House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) When you have a bath in a muddy puddle even the splashes are muddy!
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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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.
This pool near the end of this leg of Nielson Canyon was very deep mud with some water on top. We were able to wade through it once in the past because the level was low and we could see a way get across. However, our boots got covered with very sticky mud that was extremely difficult to remove. Since the level was higher and we could see the mud was deeper we didn't want to try again. We considered traveling around to the other side of the pool on an upper level but decided against it.
Autumn and winter is when most female grey seals haul themselves ashore to give birth.
It seems like a strange time to do it, when icy winds are blowing and the nights are long. One explanation is that after a summer of catching fish, the females are simply in great shape to feed their young.
When pups are born the mothers spin round to sniff them and get to know their smell. The pups are covered in fluffy white fur, not good camouflage on sand or pebbles you might think, but that's because it's a relic from the ice age when they would have been born on snow!
Female grey seals are dedicated parents, spending several weeks feeding their pups and losing up-to 65kg in the process. The pups drink two and a half litres of milk every day and it's so rich pups can grow by as much as 30kg in two weeks.
After a month or so, females leave their pups and head back out to sea where they feed and mate again. The pups can spend up to two weeks all alone on the beach while they build up the courage (and the right fur) to take the plunge into the sea and learn to fish for themselves.
The people who lived in this place don't know what their situation was like, but I think their lives were simple and happy ♥️
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. :)
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 small fractures in the mud are caused by ice crystals which melt as soon as the temperature gets above freezing.
Twelfth picture of the series Canes & Mud.
(Just the next day of previous photoshoot, I tryed another time for take longer exposures. For this shot I wanted to guide with the light of dawn on the boat in the foreground)
Magical sunrise 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.
Would like to thank this picture to my friend Javier Girbés, which helped me a lot with the location and encouraged me to know this magnificent spot.
On the technical side, say that I only used a neutral gradient three steps filter.
I hope you like it. Have a nice Thursday. :)
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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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