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[10/365] Quest for mud!
For years I have longed for a picture with MX bikes and flying mud - my journey has come to an end.
My hard disk is full of countless shots of black dots to an empty background or flying mud with no context or meaning.
This picture is the shit!!!
Shot on “Stångebroslaget” which is an Enduro competition with over 2000 participants. I usually participate myself, but this year only my brother drove. My brother had his share of the mud and I had mine, but in a completely different way. Yes, I got dirty! ;)
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One of three rhinos in a group that was relaxing in the midday hotness. Photographed in Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary.
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.
Every May at Camp Pendleton US Marine Base holds an annual Mud Run open to all from youth through adults. This year the oldest competitor was an 88 year old woman. The 10k event is a tough challenge through mud holes, over walls and other obstacles.
"Mud-puddling is the phenomenon mostly seen in butterflies and involves their aggregation on substrates like wet soil, dung and carrion to obtain nutrients such as salts and amino acids. This behaviour has also been seen in some other insects, notably the leafhoppers.
Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) are diverse in their strategies to gather liquid nutrients. Typically, mud-puddling behavior takes place on wet soil. But even sweat on human skin may be attractive to butterflies. The most unusual sources include blood and tears
This behaviour is restricted to males in many species, and in some like Battus philenor the presence of an assembly of butterflies on the ground acts as a stimulus to join the presumptive mud-puddling flock"
Dupont WA, Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, Canon EOS 5D Mark II, EF 17-40mm f /4.0L
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Vernacular architecture in the small agricultural villages in the Peruvian Altiplano around the Lago Umayo, just west of Lake Titicaca.
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Abandoned Abused Street Dogs.
We're right across the road from
The Spirit House.
The background is the mangrove
swamp.
The dogs are running on sticky
swamp clay.
Rocky an Little Stubby are going
bananas while Mama's being very
cautious.
6 months ago an excavator dredged
the swamp in order to build this berm.
What we have here is very slick, sticky,
stinky clay mud !
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128/365 - We have a water table/sand table combo for the kids...word of advice: don't EVER buy one of these...as you can see from this picture, it's a MUDDY MESS! We just let the boys go to town on it though since it was really the first time we enjoyed our backyard this year...plus it was Mother's Day so part of our tradition is that I don't have to lift a finger all day (which means my husband had to bathe them after, ha ha).
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After raining for 10 days straight, it's finally let up a bit. I was desperate to go for a walkabout even though the sky is still heavy and grey. Mostly what I found was mud.
The towering mud-brick walls of Dimai (Dimeh es-Seba) date back as early as the 3rd century BC foundation of ancient Soknopaiou Nesos, sited on a plateau north of Lake Qarun. The massive walls of the central temenos, dedicated to the crocodile-headed goddess Soknopaios (another name for Sobek in the Hellenistic Faiyum), are constructed in segments with curved courses for stabilizing the unfired bricks.
OK, enough of the boring vacation...back to the daily grind...
Sadly for you but lucky for me, I came within 5 inches of being run over by an old POS looking one way and driving another while in the cross walk in front of this establishment...scary enough to make another driver stop and make sure I was alright...
I probably should have gone inside and immersed myself in a tub of mud...
No kidding. The swamps at Coyote HIlls have all turned into mud cracks. Taken with Samyang 14mm F2.8 Lens at F11.
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Royal Air Force No.9 Squadron Panavia Tornado GR.1 ZA602/AZ in the line-up at the 1990 IAT held at Boscombe Down
One of ten 'Tonkas' there that year, Boscombe was a great 'intermediate' venue with loads of space and unlike Greenham before it, generally a North viewing aspect, especially for the flying display, which is always a bonus for photography
Scanned from a 35mm Konica Super SR100 Negative