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This dam is located at the Grootvlei Dam, in the far east of the Kruger National Park and close to the border with Mozambique. It was well filled in autumn 2022. The picture was completely different in February 2024, more mud than water and yet there were plenty of elephants here at lunchtime. Some were drinking, others were playing around and the bulls were sneaking around the herds.....
This was the most intense smelling place. Stay too long and you can start to feel a little light headed...or nauseous. This place is ripe with Hydrogen Sulfide and Carbon Dioxide. But, the wonderful microorganisms that thrive on the Hydrogen Sulfide convert that gas into Sulfuric Acid, which in turn break down the rocks into the mud. <3 Biology
A Solitary Sandpiper heads for shallow water with a mud-covered leech in its beak. The leech was given a thorough rinse before being swallowed; unfortunately for me, the bird chose to turn its head away from my camera during the consumption.
Cyclocross Women's Elite in the Netherlands. National Championship Zaltbommel. Walking through the mud
Death Valley
Mud and salt, what remains of Lake Manly which once covered Death Valley to a depth of 30 feet (9.1 m)
In Námaskard in Lake Myvatn area we have this thick boiling mud. Even though the wind is blowing and it is frost and snow this mud is alwais boiling.
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In the early morning mist the harbour mudflat looked like it might stretch on forever (Poole, Dorset, UK).
More from the "Landscapes with & without people" set...
Scanned from a Kodachrome slide taken on an Olympus OM1 with 24 mm F2.8 Zuiko lens. First posted 2011, new improved scan Dec. 2015.
The day the Olympic Torch came to Sunderland. Wettest summer ever. There is a path under there somewhere!
Just north of Mont St. Michel Abbey in France is another small island which at low tide you could walk to for fun. While I was there a large group of high school students were taking a guided walk. Very interesting and muddy. Looked like a lot of fun.
This vertical comp was taken after the peak in sky color ... it was wanning at this time. Wanted to try and make the river mud look "good" there on the rocks. Luckily this was not the norm on the rocks exposed there along the river ... but these 'landmines' had to be watched for as we scrambled around on the rocks taking pictures.
The mansions of Antartiko, near the North Macedonian and Albanian borders, are stunning examples of mud-brick vernacular building dating to the heyday of the village in the 19th through early 20th centuries. The population has been in steep decline since WWII, and most of the houses are crumbling into ruins. This house is still occupied, as shown by the smoking upstairs kitchen stovepipe, though the tile roof is beginning to fail.
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Warabi Hadaka Matsuri
Hadaka Matsuri (literally, naked festival) held every 25th of February at Mimusubi Shrine, Yotsukaido, Chiba. Young men in loincloths jostle one another in a muddy rice paddy from around 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Access: JR Sobu Line to Yotsukaido Sta. (South Exit), and then walk 15 min.
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Last weekend we visted the Lost Gardens of Heligan, the most popular botanical gardens in the UK. To be frank, I was a bit disappointed, maybe because most of the foliage and flowers were gone at that time of the year and because we have been to some extraordinary botanical gardens throughout the year and the Lost Gardens were a bit underwhelming in comparison. At least there were very few people there so we had all the time in the world to explore.
They keep a few farm animals on site and we spend some time seeing what the pigs were doing. The photo is of big momma, the real mud maid - for those of you who already were at the Lost Gardens - pun intended :-)
After a little research about pig breeds I think this one is a British Lop - so called because of its long ears. It's an old pig breed - currently rarer than the Giant Panda (from Wikipedia)...
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Our first evening there in the Badlands was in storms and rain, and the sunset was incredible ...
The following morning was more generally clear skies with a few clouds around. Eventually by 8:00 am some clouds started to stream by, so I pulled out the ND filters and set up the tripod. I did find this section that still had some flowing water around from the previous day's rains.
I liked this comp getting that muddy Badlands water in the frame, as well as catching the white puffy clouds streaming over the mountain tops.
Parque das Nações, Lisboa, Portugal.
Tough Mudder is a twelve mile run punctuated with a series of obstacles designed by Special Forces. These include the Arctic Enema, which sees participants - or "Mudders" - submerged in a pool of ice cubes before swimming through them, beneath a wooden plank and then pulling themselves out the other side. Ice appears again in the Electric Eel obstacle, in which Mudders must slide on their bellies across a layer of the stuff. Any attempts to crawl on one's knees are thwarted by the live electrical wires overhead, which will smack and contort the body back to the ground. With other obstacles as variously named as Ball Shrinker, Fire Walker, Mud Mile and Electroshock Therapy, it's clear that this is not for the faint-hearted.
Which is why it's such a surprise to me that I've signed up to do it. Although I've taken some tiny steps over the last couple of years into the world of bodybuilding, and despite a natural agility and suppleness (gymnastics was the only Phys Ed subject on my high school report card with a decent grade) I haven't much tolerance for physical pain or discomfort, and before I started to train for Tough Mudder, I was barely able to run a mile before feeling like my life was at its end.
I've decided to raise money for the Ayrshire Hospice. My Mum works there as a carer, and I'm contributing to her efforts to fundraise. Donations, large or small, would be hugely appreciated. If I had only a cent or a penny for every time someone here has clicked to favourite a photograph, I'd go several times over my target! So please help. You can donate HERE
See a trailer for tough Mudder here.
Read more about the good work done by The Ayrshire Hospice here.
Glasgow, 2013.
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Never let it be said that I'm incapable of getting dirty or rising to a challenge!!! Dirty enough for you Myles??? This is a VERY rare self portrait (sort of) taken on a spa day and you won't see another for a very long time if ever ! Crappy photo and a joke---no invites please :-))). Myles said he wanted to see if I could get "dirty" and I had to prove I could:-))
UPDATE---Myles met the challenge and definitely trumped me!! For those who are interested or brave enough to check it out :-))). www.flickr.com/photos/mylessmith/2407523797/
Further UPDATE---Zoe got into the mud fight too:-))). We may start a group just for mud shots:-)) Feel free to join in and post your mud shots. www.flickr.com/photos/zcn/2411349226/
I am just happy to have started this madness but will NOT go to the lengths either of them did LOL.
Unfortunately, those photos are only available to friends. They didn't want the whole flickr world to see their muddy nakedness.
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Listen to this! and View Large On Black
‘Mud, mud, mud. What a glorious thing is mud! Mud, mud, mud. What a wonderful thing is mud! It sticks and stacks, it squeezes through cracks, Between your toes goes mud. It plops and drops, and oozes and goozes, Thick or thin it's Mud!’
There you are, in your special (very special!) wellies, carefully avoiding the really deep mud heading across the estuary at low tide to your desired photographic position. Tripod out, camera out, backpack back on your back so it doesn’t get muddy, bit of playing around with F stops and composition, bang a few shots out, perhaps waiting a little for the light to change looking aimlessly at the sky. You think you;ve nailed it, so it’s time to head home. Pull up ya tripod from the mud, sling it over your shoulder, you turn around to head home and then you realise... You have spent the last 15 mins in one position; you have sunk about 2 foot into the mud. You yank, and yank on each leg to try to release it. But nothing, apart from the odd squelch. You wiggle your toes, rotate your ankles and yank your leg again. Still not budging. Quick look up and down the estuary to make sure no one is witnessing this public humiliation, then back to the job at hand. One last concerted effort,... the biggest pull ever using both hands and then suddenly,.. your foot comes flying out of the wellie, with the wellie still left lodged two foot under as you stumble back throwing your camera to the estuary floor as your now sock covered foot plunges deep into the cold, oozey, goozey mud.
“F*ck me sideways, Nooooo!!!”
Surely I’m not the only one on here that has made this schoolboy error, am i...?? That is one long walk back home, let me tell ya..
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