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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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52Frames | Week 28: “Negative Space”
This baseball saw live action. Before games, every ball is hand‑treated with a special mud sourced from one stretch of the Delaware River in New Jersey. Fresh out of the box, the leather is bright white and glossy; the mud dulls the sheen and gives pitchers a better grip and clearer finger placement.
Batters prefer a lighter touch for visibility, while pitchers want heavier mudding to darken the seams and help disguise spin. The tradition dates back to the 1920s, but MLB didn’t standardize the process until 2022, when strict rules were introduced—including storing baseballs in a humidor for 14 days.
A typical game burns through 96 to 120 balls. For this image, I used a macro lens at roughly 2–3× magnification to get close enough to show the texture, stitching, and wear.
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Little incident while I was taking easter pictures ;)
Hurray I saved the dess!
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Explore 19 Apr 2009 #138
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The last of the volcanoes series...
Mud volcanoes appear mostly when gas pockets or gas deposits associated with oil manage to seep to the surface, transporting water mixed with solid material (mud, made mainly of clay and sand). Of course, these volcanoes are not hot at all, on the contrary, they can have temperatures that almost reach the freezing point. Their relief stands for 2-3 years, compared to tens of thousands of years in the case of the real volcanoes.
Still, the largest mud volcanoes have a diameter of 10 km (6 mi) and are 700 meters (2,300 ft) tall. But most of them have surfaces of tens of square meters to several hectares.
About 1,100 mud volcanoes have been detected on land (700) and in shallow water, but there may be much more than 10,000 on continental slopes and abyssal plains.
In Europe, mud volcanoes are found on the Kerch Peninsula (southeastern Ukraine) and northern Apennines and Sicily (Italy). Easily accessible are the mud volcanoes of Berca (Buzau, Romania) close to the Carpathians.
300 out of the world's 700 known mud volcanoes are located in Eastern Azerbaijan and the shores of the Caspian Sea. A 2001 eruption 15 kilometers (9 mi) from Baku spewed flames which were 15 m (45 ft) tall.
Mud volcanoes are also found in the mountains between Iran and Pakistan, China's western Uyghur province, Arakan Coast (Myanmar) and nearby Andaman islands and South Taiwan.
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A western tiger swallowtail, Papilio rutulus, and a short-tailed swallowtail, Papilio indra, sip fluids from mud at the edge of a small pond.
Puddling provides butterflies with both salts and amino acids, for which males have greater needs than females, and consequently most puddling butterflies are male.
These two were part of a large group, containing about 7 species, puddling at Heil Ranch, Boulder, Colorado.
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Abused & Abandoned Jungle Dogs.
Just like kids laughing and playing in the mud.
They think this is big time funny and want me
to come on down and join them. Furthermore
they expect me to chauffeur them back home
in their sidecar then gently bathe them, kids ;-)-
Another trip to the field was planned for today
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This may have been the most full I've ever seen this feature, probably because of the major rains the week before.
It's not a volcano, by the way, just a mud pot - a hot spring with dissolved solids in it.
Parque das Nações, Lisboa, Portugal.
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Cape buffalo, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda.
We surprised this guy in the middle of a bath. He was not overly thrilled by our arrival.
Here in Ottawa ontario Canada, we are lucky to have such an amazing place. Its a wildlife conservation area in the middle of the city. Its my place to take great shots and recharge within nature.
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Looking northwest towards Marin County from the Albany Bulb landfill on the east side of the San Francisco Bay. The tree line shadows reflected on the mud flats caught my eye.
Just off the road to Krýsuvík is a solfatara field at Seltún, Iceland which contains mud pools, acidic hot springs; fumaroles and steaming ground. Fumaroles in the area deposit sulfur and sulphates on the ground near the vents. Fumaroles whose steam is rich in sulfur are called solfataras. The main sulphur area is a fumarole field that lies southwest of the boardwalk at Seltún but sulfur and sulphates around some of the steam vents, mud pools and acidic hot springs were visible to us as we strolled along the boardwalk.
Seltún is part of the large Krýsuvík Geothermal field which lies on one of the NE-SW trending volcanic systems that cross the Reykjanes Peninsula. The volcanic zones lie in the middle of the fissure zone on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge which traverses Iceland and are visible along the south of Reykjanes.
In the mid-20th century there were plans to develop the geothermal field for utilization, including power production, and Seltún then became one of the main drilling targets. There are old drill pads to be seen near the path along the creek. According to the Iceland Geosurvey (ISOR) one of the "boreholes started erupting intermittently in the winter of 2010". They reported that an interval of a few days between the eruptions. We found the spot but on two different visits to the field I saw no sign of geyser activity. ISOR also reports "another old borehole blew up in 1999 forming a crater with a diameter of about 30 m, now filled by mud except where a flow of steam keeps boiling pits open". That unexpected explosion in 1999 reportedly caused the geothermal project to be halted. The springs have been preserved due to the lack of drilling and geothermal exploitation.
Temperatures are over 200 degrees C just below the surface. Geologist from the Iceland Geosurvey believe "the water of the pools is surface water heated by steam from a boiling geothermal reservoir. Accompanying gases such as hydrogen sulphide and carbon dioxide acidify the water and alter the rock to clay. Only the uppermost 300 m of the reservoir at Seltún is boiling, i.e., follows the boiling curve in accordance with increasing pressure. Below this depth, a temperature inversion occurs, indicating that the boiling section is fed laterally from an upflow some distance away.”
The geothermal field is located in the Reykjanes Geopark.
Geologic and geothermal info from Iceland GeoSurvey (ISOR) . Some text in the caption from their web page at: www.geothermal.is/17-seltun-high-temperature-area-solfataras
A dark colored mud dauber from central Benin (collection from 1997). This wasp lives in miombo forests with 6 months of drought. The pointed and long mandibles are used to collect mud to build nests. The nests are often seen in crevices, old trees and houses. The impressive jaws are also used to hunt spiders that are brought to the nest. Total length of this wasp is 3,5cm; this image is about 10mm tall.
Studio stack based on 176 images taken with an MP-E 65mm at 3,5x (ISO100, f5.6, 1/200sec, wb on flash). Flash needed 3x2 AA batteries (GP, rechargeable NiMH, 2600mAh, 1.2V). One flash at 20 cm, diffused with a bristol paper roll, fitted rather close around the specimen (diameter 35mm). The colored streaks in the background (upper right) come from the wing.