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Ancient texts tell us that we were shaped from sacred clay, brought to life by the breath of the divine. Within us dwell the elements that compose the very fabric of the cosmos. But we are but fragile vessels, molded from dust, bearing an ego far grander than we deserve.
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Photography and file processing; LC Nevermind(Luis Campillo)
Artistic direction, MUAH, props, caption and model; Lis Xia
Gear; Nikon D2h & Voigtlander Color Skopar 20mm F3.5 SLII, 400 ISO
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At the waters edge. Thick mud stuck firmly into my arch and between my toes. Ready for a dip into the cool water!
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Photo No# 1 of #2.
Abused & Abandoned Jungle Dogs.
Mid-morning Pumpkin Pie & Boney Baloney
were taken over to the mud/cobra field 4 fun.
This is a 2 photo series with a big surprise when
we were getting ready to leave as shown in
the running hip shot photograph !
Soon as we pulled in both dogs were released from
their leashes and poof, off they go at Mach 1 speed.
They raced here, then there, then back here, before
going back over there. While they were doing all the
silly stuff they do I started prepping the camera/lens.
Took off my face mask, selected first gear and slowly
started putting through the large palm-oil plantation.
There is literally thousands of palm-oil plants here.
And yes of course it's all surrounded by jungle and
a river on one side. So lets talk about this photo.
It was around 8:30AM when we left our place which
means we arrived here around 8:41AM +/- give/take.
It's hot, I'm tired, dogs are tired with long purple tongues
hanging down to the ground so we work our way back
to where I always park. This gives the dogs river time.
11-14 minutes of cooling off in the river while getting
covered with sticky, stinky river mud is their reward.
Right after this photo was taken they navigated
the steep river bank and headed for the sidecar.
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and my photos are only to convey the stories.
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Mud Moutain of Hingol National Park
Fact Sheet:
Geographical Location:
25*30'N-65*30'E
Physical Location:
Makran coast, Baluchistan province. Approximately 190 km west of Karachi
Total Area:
610, 043 hectares
Date Established:
1988 and 1997 (includes Dhrun Wildlife Sanctuary)
Best Time to Visit:
Mid October to November and December to mid March
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Description
Hingol National Park (HNP) – the largest National Park in Pakistan covers about 610,043 It and lies on the Makran coast approximately 190 kilometers (km) from Karachi. The area was declared reserved in 1988 for the first time. The park area includes parts of the three districts of Balochistan; Lasbela, Gawader and Owaran, and contains a variety of topographical features and vegetation. Large tracts of the HNP are covered with drift sand and can be classified as coastal semi desert. HNP includes the estuary of the Hingol river which supports a significant diversity of bird and fish species.
Wildlife:
In addition to a variety of bird species, Hingol is also known to support threatened invertebrates. The park is reported to be an excellent habitat to wild animals including over 3,000 ibexes, and 1500 Urials and more than 1,200 Chinkara, besides number of resident and migratory birds. The Houbara Bustard (Chlamydotis undulata), Dalmatian and Spot-billed Pelican (Pelecanus philippensis) are regular visitors to the area.
The River Hingol has been nurturing crocodiles for centuries. The Marsh Crocodile (Crocodylus palustris), Olive Ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea) and Green Marine Turtles (Cheloniamydas), endemic and threatened species of fish, such as the Mahasheer occur and schools of Plumbeous Dolphins (Sousa plumbea) are known from close in-shore areas.
Mammals:
The park has a relative high diversity of species for this type of desert environment. However, the population of a number of species is critically low including for Wolf, Leopard, Hyena, and possibly of Caracal and Honey Badger. Populations of Chinkara are common in the Harian Valley and the Northern Plains but vulnerable. The most recent sightings of wolf are from a few years back and no recent sightings have been obtained to confirm the survival of the Desert Wolf in the park. The population is either critically low or the last individuals have been recently killed.
The status of the following species needs to be studied in more detail to assess their survival changes, their current distribution within the park and the population densities: Urial, Chinkara, Desert Wolf, Leopard, Caracal, Hyena, Wild Boar, Honey Badger.
The park has large populations of Ibex, although population like those of many other species were decimated during the long period of extreme drought (1998-2004). Porcupine is abundant in many locations both in the lowland valley and the Mountain plateaux. It is reportedly increasing in numbers in several areas. The main reason is likely the local loss of predators such as Leopard, Hyena and Desert Wolf. Cape Hare is numerous in many valleys and flood plain areas, and so are their main predators the Foxes and Jackal. Certain rodent species in particular Mouse like Hamster and Indian Gerbil may be quite common.
Birds:
The total number of species thus far listed for Hingol National Park is 185 (Nov 2006). The Species Diversity of the Park is relatively high for a desert area due to the large variety of habitats including sea, sea coast, estuaries and mudflats, riverine habitat and mountains up to 1580 m. The highest number of species is found at the seacoast, the estuary and along the Hingol River and main tributaries the Nal, Parken, Arra and Babro-Mari River. Some 45% or almost nearly half of all species are related to water including the seacoast, the estuary, and the Hingol River areas. The major groups among these are the seagull and terns, the pelicans, flamingos, herons and egrets, the plovers and lapwings and the stints, sandpipers, godwits, shanks, coots, curlews, king fishers, Osprey, etc..
Only a small number or about 10 % are typically related to the desert areas. Bird diversity is typically low in the tree-poor and degraded broad valleys and the desert areas with very limited water sources. The typical desert related bird groups include the Wheat-ears, Common Babblers, Larks, Sand Grouses, Partridges, the Houbara Bustard, some Shrikes and Buntings.
Many other species use the desert area also including many birds of prey, insect eating birds such as Bee-eaters, Hoopoes, and seed eaters such as Pigeons and Doves, and birds with a more varied diet such as White-eared Bulbuls, Sparrows and the Brown-headed Raven and Shrikes.
The remainder of the birds some 45% consists of birds of prey (Eagles, Vultures, Hawks, Buzzards, Falcons), pigeons, owls, nightyars, woodpeckers, rollers, swallows, martins, wagtails, chats, robins, warblers, white-throats, flycatchers, sunbird, drongo, mynas, sparrows, buntings.
Bird biomass is low, except at the estuary and mudflats and tidal river where large groups of Pelicans, Flamingos, Waders (Plovers, Stints, Sandpipers, Shanks), Seagulls, Terns, and Ducks like to congregate.
Some bird species profit from the influence of cultivation, in particular culture following species such as House Sparrows, Silverbells, White-eared Bulbuls, Buntings, Common Babblers, White throats and Brown-headed Raven. The water harvesting systems result in agricultural areas with high trees of Kand Prosopis glandiflora, Kikar Acacia nilotica, and Ber Zizyphus mauritiana. In particular Ziziphus mauritiana attracts fruit-seed eating birds such as White-eared Bulbul, Lesser White-throats, House Sparrows and others. They also provide nesting sites for many bird species. Blossoms and fruits of trees such as Salvadora spp. and Capparis decidua, usually attract several bird species, including the Purple Sunbirds Nectarinia asiatica. These trees are however scarce and may have much decreased in numbers through cutting for construction wood and fuel wood.
The fields with ripening grains such as millet attract many seed eating birds including rock pigeons, doves, buntings, sparrows and others.
Several species find either their eastern limit or their western limit in the Hingol and surroundings. A typical example is the Brown-headed Raven.
The Brown-headed Raven Corvus rufficollis is a restricted range species. It is limited to the southern areas of Balochistan, Iran up to Oman and Egypt. The eastern limits of its total range are at the east boundary of the park, while a few individuals wandering up to Liari and the estuary of the Porali River. They occur all over the park beyond its northern boundaries.
Groups of some 4 –20 or more birds are found along each river and in each major valley. The Aghore group is the largest with more than 20 individuals. The total number of groups resident in the Park is estimated at 10-20 only.
A rare bird noted as limited range species with breeding in Balochistan coastal zone is the Sooty Falcon. It is regularly seen in Hingol and a group of 17 were sighted at Machi / Sangal mountain ridge and may be breeding in Hingol
At least half of the species listed for the park are migratory birds. The Park is part of the “Asian Flyway” used by birds from Siberia and Central Asia to migrate to the flood plains, lakes and sea coastal areas of Pakistan, India up to Bangladesh. Some birds migrate to East Africa crossing the Arabian Sea. A small number of birds show altitudinal migration over shorter distances. They come down from the higher altitudes within Pakistan to migrate to non-snow covered and warmer areas (e.g., Orphean Whitethroat). The number of species and number of individuals is therefore much higher in the winter period. Most species can be noted when migratory species pass through during the arrival-passage time in autumn (Aug-Nov) and their return in spring (Feb-May). A small number of species stay the whole winter in the park area, notably some Egrets and Herons. A very small number migrates from south east to northwest in summer times.
The largest concentrations of migratory birds can be found at the Hingol estuary and lower Hingol River plains. Several birds of Prey pass through the coastal area during the wintertime. A two day survey in Jan. 2006, listed 150 Great White Pelicans, 40 Spot-billed and 50 Dalmatian Pelicans, 18 Great Cormorants, 400 Little Cormorants, 75 Western Reef Egrets, 200 Little Egrets, a few Intermediate, Great Egrets and Purple Heron, and 32 Grey Heron, 16 Black Ibis, and 200 Spoonbils. Ducks were limited to Eurasian Wigeon (800), Gadwall (150), Common Teal (600), and Northern Shoveler (200), the total number of shorebirds-waders amounted to 16 out of 40 species including amongst others Great Stone Plover (2), Whimbrel (60) and Eurasian Curlew (35). The Gull-Terns were represented with 12 out of 20 species with high numbers of Herring Gull (2000), and Black-headed Gull (1400).
Reptiles:
The Marsh Crocodile, Olive Ridley and Green Marine Turtles, Desert Monitor lizard, Yellow Monitor lizard, and different species of lizard and chameleon.
Source:
Shot taken in HNP during a Widlife Survey of the Park:
Messiest part of the marsh class. We were there during a neap tide, so the water was quite low for most of the time we were in the marsh. The kids kept on asking, "When are we going to go in the mud????" Well, they asked enough to get guided into the mud.
I decided it would be a great idea to follow them with my d300 and get pictures. Well, I got to the front and got stuck...like Quick Sand. Saved the camera, lost the polka dot boot and ruined my pants and jacket.
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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.
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. Males seem to benefit from the sodium uptake through mud-puddling behaviour with an increase in reproductive success. The collected sodium and amino acids are often transferred to the female with the spermatophore during mating as a nuptial gift. This nutrition also enhances the survival rate of the eggs.
Lots of bears out and about in Cades Cove right now feeding on acorns and fattening up for Winter. This one was enjoying a mud bath in a watering hole.
Cades Cove
Great Smoky Mountains
I never saw boiling mud before. It moves in slow motion, an intricate restless dance...most of its moves will never be seen.
This was great fun to capture, holding my breath from the plumes of toxic smelling smog and trying to keep my lens from steaming up! Timing was everything as the shapes of the splatters changed so drastically every split second the steam would at times cloud over the mud pot completely!
From my Sony RX100M3 | 1/2000 seconds | f/2.8 | ISO 800
This is an image of the mud men tribe from Papua New Guinea. The legend goes that many years ago these men where running from their enemy who was trying to kill them. As they ran down a hill they all fell into a huge mud pit. When they climbed got out of the mud they were covered from head to toe. As their enemy came over the hill and saw them they thought they were ghosts and they ran away. After that experience the tribe decided to keep the mud on and add the mask. They were one of my favorite tribes!
NASA image (top) acquired January 11, 2011. NASA image (bottom) acquired February 11, 2010
To download the high res files go to: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=48801
On November 26, 2010, Pakistani fishermen returned from a day at sea to report that a new island had emerged. The tiny dot of land was a mud volcano, and it was still visible on January 11, 2011, when the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite acquired the top image. The mud volcano was absent in a previous overpass on February 11, 2010, shown in the lower image.
There’s no need to change any maps, however; mud volcanoes have risen off the coast of Pakistan in the past and disappeared again within a few months, washed away by the waves and currents in the Arabian Sea. It is quite likely that this new volcano will meet the same fate. Indeed, a stream of pale brown sediment was snaking away from the volcano to the west on January 11, suggesting that erosion was already underway.
Pakistan’s mud volcanoes form as a result of plate tectonic activity. The Arabian plate—the section of Earth’s crust that carries the Arabian Sea—is sinking beneath the Eurasian land mass at about four centimeters per year. Some of the thick sediment and rock on top of the Arabian plate has sloughed onto the edge of the Eurasian plate, forming Pakistan’s coastal plain, the Makran Desert, and the underwater slope leading away from the shore. It is from this sloughed-off land that the mud volcanoes form.
Beneath the sediment, along the accretionary front, the sinking Arabian plate heats up under extreme pressure and rock melts into magma. Volcanic gases and magma heat the groundwater, turning it in a hot acid that dissolves rock into a slurry of mud and clay. The mud and gas seep through faults, eventually erupting at the surface as a mud volcano.
Pakistan has a number of mud volcanoes in the Makran Desert and offshore. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, mud volcanoes are usually less than 1-2 meters (3-7 feet) tall. But Pakistan’s Chandragup Complex includes a mud volcano that is 100 meters (330 feet) high.
The same tectonic activity and fault systems that produce these volcanoes occasionally produce large earthquakes, such as the magnitude 7.2 quake that shook southwest Pakistan on January 18, 2011.
NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using ALI data from the EO-1 team. Caption by Holli Riebeek.
Instrument: EO-1 - ALI
Credit: NASA Earth Observatory
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