share your stories of getting dirty!

watch out for mud!
im out in the bush here in Australia doing some work on the droughts effect on farmers as well as a gold mine in the area…
i was in a dried up damn and walking down as i reached the core (still cracked) so i thought it was hard, although a moment later i was up to my chest in thick sucking mud, i lost a shoe and had to chuck camera and stuff up onto dry land as i slowly pulled myself out, took me a good 5 minutes to get out,, body is fine and im still using it, lens still a bit dirty, seems to have a bit of grit in the joins, anyway some photos are attached and i thought this would be a good thread for some giggles amongst the community here,
cheers
Conor

by Conor Ashleigh at Sat Apr 18 02:57:32 UTC 2009 Sydney, Australia | Bookmark | | Report spam→

p.s. guys how do i post some photos up?

by Conor Ashleigh | 18 Apr 2009 02:04 | Sydney, Australia | | Report spam→

upload them on another site and send a link.Look forward to seeing this.

by Aditya Kapoor | 18 Apr 2009 05:04 | New Delhi, India | | Report spam→

stories of getting dirty…well, one time at band camp…oh…sorry…not that kind of dirty

by Eric Beecroft | 18 Apr 2009 05:04 | US- Mexico Border Areas, Mexico | | Report spam→

I’ll pm you Conor with tips on how to upload photos to LS.

As for getting dirty… I was covering a foxhunting meet for The Telegraph. Against my better judgement, and as it was the only way to get photos, I perched on the front of a quadbike driven by one of the hunt followers. I was getting some great shots until a riderless-horse smacked straight into the quadbike and I described a perfect somersault through the air. The landing was soft though, fortunately for me-right into a very large and manure filled stinky puddle.
End result-bruised photographer, bashed up camera, very muddy lens and a decision never to go on a quadbike ever again. After a quick clean up of the cameras I carried on-and made the front page with one of the photos.
But I did resemble one of those Papua New Guinea mud men for a while.

by JR | 18 Apr 2009 09:04 | rothwell, United Kingdom | | Report spam→

Was taking some corporate photos of oil workers in Oklahoma and got some crude oil splashed on me and my gear. When I got back home, I learned the hard way that crude oil will dissolve some plastics such as the coating on my reflectors and the housings of flashes. Cover your gear if u ever have to shoot the stuff.