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Hi Folks , today's upload is a photo of the fossil remains of a Mammoth , found in the Royal Tyrrell Museum of paleontology.
as a museum exhibit I am feeling a bit sketchy on this upload , and hope the moderator will not make this my first 'removed' photo :-) but seeing as this species is long extinct there is not much chance to capture its image in nature , and it most certainly is a part of our natures past.
though not as fantastic as the earlier period dinosaurs such as the T-Rex , this prehistoric creature does have one very imagination inspiring edge , it shared the world with prehistoric man.
a great series of books written about this era of time is called the Earth's Children series by Jean M. Auel. beginning with The Clan of the Cave Bear. a historical fictional series , which took place at a time that the Neanderthal and modern Cro-magnon humans coexisted. the last book in the series , called the Mammoth Hunters is based along the lines of the theory that human hunting practices where a contributing factor in the extinction of the Mammoth elephant , other beliefs as to why this great creature went extinct are climatic changes and disease.
thanks for stopping in
regards
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Yikes... an anorexic mastadon!! unusual shot, don't get to see this type of image here, so this is a worthy addition...
Nice specimen.
Nice pose and composition.
Yet the pic is slightly underexposed.
Also the shadows created by the flash are ugly. Two ways to avoid that:
- a powerful and orientable flash to flash indirectly.
- Using the actual light, by making a white balance, using a tripod, and disabling the flash.
TFS
J-M
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