Mini Competition #106

[Dave Humphries]

Here's how it works ...

- You good folks post images in the thread (please change your post title to a name for your picture)

- When we get 10 images we will attach a voting poll

- After 3 days the poll closes and the winner is declared!

- If you would especially like some critique after the competition poll closes, please make it known in the post

Too easy eh?

Limit of 1 image per post, and 2 image posts per person.

If there are already 10 in the current comp, please start a new thread in this forums

Cheers,

[ScoutR]

[Peter Ryan]

[Jim B.]

[sleist]

Comments welcome.

Steve

[Klickit]

Comments welcome.

Steve

Steve, I think you must be on heat.

[Peter Ryan]

Steve, I think you must be on heat.

Right on Kit. This posture is called 'flehmen'. Below is an extract from Bloodstock.com

"Most of us, at one time or another, have seen a horse tilt up his head and curl his upper lip in a "horse laugh." Although the expression is amusing, it actually has a practical purpose, writes Karen Briggs in the February edition of The Horse. The posture is called "flehmen" (roughly translated it means "testing"), and it appears to help horses trap pheromone scents in the vomeronasal organs (VNOs) so they can be analyzed more closely. Pheromones are the chemical signals emanating from other horses (and on occasion from humans).
After a horse draws in the organic odor (by several seconds of olfactory investigation), he curls up his lip to temporarily close the nasal passages and hold the particles inside. Then an upward head tilt seems to help the airborne molecules linger in the VNOs, which are located under the floor of the horse's nasal cavity.
Stallions are, by far, the most enthusiastic equine practitioners of the flehmen posture. In the presence of a mare in estrus, for example, they might flehmen several times an hour. Mares also will flehmen, although not as frequently; the smell of birthing fluids on a newborn foal triggers the response.
Geldings seem to flehmen the least. In fact, it's theorized that the process of gelding seems to compromise a male's ability to detect and analyze pheromones, making him sexually ineffectual in more ways than one.
But while sex pheromones are definitely the most likely flehmen trigger, they're not the only ones. Occasionally, horses will react with an upper lip curl when they come in contact with an unusually strange or pungent inorganic odor--smoke from a fire or fresh paint, for example."

[Yan Zhang]

Here is my entry: Infinity

I took this photo on the way to Blue Mountains in a late afternoon for a sunset shooting in June. But around the half way, the weather changed, and mist was forming quickly. So I changed my plan and turned to Wentworth Falls Lake. The surface of the lake was invisible except those poles.

I like simple compositions, but sometimes not sure how simple is simple enough but not empty. Like to hear from you...

[sleist]

But while sex pheromones are definitely the most likely flehmen trigger, they're not the only ones. Occasionally, horses will react with an upper lip curl when they come in contact with an unusually strange or pungent inorganic odor--smoke from a fire or fresh paint, for example."

Well, I suppose at my age I should be grateful anything finds me attractive - although in this case it's probably the "unusually strange".
Come to think of it, I think perhaps it's always been a case of "unusually strange".

Thanks!

[Gerry]

[mastamak]

Taken this morning on the road to Port Douglas - Mt Thornton from Yule Point

Grant

[wilgk]

Very Nice shot Grant
& I would also just like to mention that I am appreciating the Equine theme shown here of late.......much more pleasant than the rash of arachnids we had in July

[yjiang]

[Dave Humphries]

Very Nice shot Grant
& I would also just like to mention that I am appreciating the Equine theme shown here of late.......much more pleasant than the rash of arachnids we had in July

OK, OK, I can take a hint, I'll try shooting horses instead, but probably not this weekend.

In my defence; if I'd had any horses in the garden, you would have had those in the July PAD, but my garden was full of weeds, flies and spiders.

[Shadowman]

[wilgk]

OK, OK, I can take a hint, I'll try shooting horses instead, but probably not this weekend.

In my defence; if I'd had any horses in the garden, you would have had those in the July PAD, but my garden was full of weeds, flies and spiders.

You're forgiven

[sleist]

OK, OK, I can take a hint, I'll try shooting horses instead, but probably not this weekend.

In my defence; if I'd had any horses in the garden, you would have had those in the July PAD, but my garden was full of weeds, flies and spiders.

For the record, horseflies don't count ...

[Walshy]

Waiting

[ScoutR]

That's all folks. Carry on here

Mini Competition #107

[Dave Humphries]

VOTING now OPEN