Occasionally I like to take part in these themed postathons, and Ailsa’s are always great. This time the theme is motion, and you can find many more over at her blog post on Where’s My Backpack.
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The spring melt-off at Bryce National Park in Utah brings a slow-moving but inexorable slurry plowing through the snow.

This was a very windy day in the dunes at Death Valley. You can see the sand moving over the foreground. Lens changes were not a good idea!

This American dipper is constantly on the move up and down streams, on the hunt for food. Here one dips for lunch on the Snake River in Grand Teton National Park.

You can see the water spraying up as this young bull in the Okavango Delta begins his charge – a false one lucky for us.

A body in motion stays in motion – the creed for a group of exercise enthusiasts from a nearby fitness spa in Snow Canyon State Park, Utah.

A lone wildebeast stands against an oncoming storm in the Mbabe Depression of Botswana. You can see the wind in the tree he’s standing under.

Sometimes I don’t blur waterfalls because I think stopping the motion gives a better sense of the power. That was the case here at Victoria Falls on the Zimbabwe-Zambia border.

A small peaceful cove on the northern California coast features an active little stream plus abalone shells!