I was expecting something rather more mind changing from the title........ However this is so much more exciting! I actually see a figure here, hips, with thighs crossed and arms at the side.

Nice lighting. Good abstract form that is not centered in the picture and adds tension (this is good). You can tell it's a bone, but it has an artistic quality to it.

You got all the cannabis smokers excited for a minute ;) Mammoths hold some interest for me. While England and France are separated by the English Channel (or La Manche if you are from the continent), deep-sea divers in the channel have found literally thousands of mammoth tusks and bones on the bottom. The received wisdom is that England and France were joined in the not too distant past (tens of thousands, rather than millions of years), and that the sea level rose to block the crossing as we came out of the last ice age. Perhaps mammoths drove gas-guzzling cars that made sea levels rise? Perhaps global warming is not man=made. My belief is we are far to dumb to ever know... but a lot of scientists are making a great living out of not knowing either. I cycle everywhere, BTW :)

This is such a wonderful shot!!! The lighting makes it so mysterious !!!

Undoubtedly it dates from the Stoned Age? Sorry, I couldn't resist just one stoner comment. Great lighting, of course & I love the way you've framed it in black - a bold choice that works really well...

Fantastic image, Tara! The lighting is exceptional! :)

When we were in your country in 2011 we visited a place where they discovered many mammoth skeletons in what was originally a water filled pit. That was somewhere in the Mid West near the canyon lands.

Very very very cool!!!!

Well, at first I thought this was going to be something along the lines of Cheech and Chong.... But I digress.... And of course this is prime Tara.... Going in for the closer look! LOL A most detailed and excellent shot! I wouldn't expect any less than the wonderful light you've captured here! Glad your internet is improving - I don't know what I'd do without my connection..... Sad, isn't it? LOL Hope you and Bill are doing well!

Well all the stoner jokes have been made. Your title sent me back to college for a minute. If you and Bill are ever back in Los Angeles stop by the Page Museum near the La Brea Tar Pits. They have complete mammoth skeletons taken from the pits. I love the lighting in this. Gives one the feeling of sitting around the fire in a cave 10,000 years ago.

Don't worry so much about comments, it's all good. Fantastic capture, even if i can't see the whole mammoth.

Fabulous capture! the lighting adds a bit of mystery to the scene - like we're back with the early man around the fire after a successful hunt

Superb capture!

I also find the lighting on this a lot of fun. It reminds me of a Carvaggio painting.

Superb capture Tara. God bless.

I love the off-center composition and the lighting that seems to come up from beneath; fantastic shot!!

Well done. sounds like a fun adventure.

La porte grande ouverte aux fantasmes et à l'imaginaire !

So strange with that POV.

what a wonderful reduction of light and all - and it works so great! I love this kind of composition very much! 5+ :-)

first, after all the comments people make about "don't worry about commenting, just keep posting!!!" (which I've said many times myself), I can't resist but say "you g-ddammed BETTER comment, or don't bother showing your FACE around here!" A cheap shot, but I'm cheap...As for the stoner jokes, I never even thought about "joints" when I saw the title. But I like that several people made jokes, including the "stoned age" from claude. All that said, I actually zoomed and then downloaded this, so I could see your composition: With the black background that RR provides, there's no way of seeing where the frame ends in zoom. You placed the joint on the far right side, which is a visual "statement," in the sense that it makes the joint "intrude" into the all that black space, whereas if it were centered, the black space would clearly be a background 'support' to the image. The power of off-centered composition; it makes this joint an interruption in the present, the past coming into our space...Your lighting is prime tara lighting, that "rembrandt" effect I spoke of, going back several years. Someone above said Caravaggio---that works too, for the chiaroscuro. Fine recessive shadows, fine "suggested" forms (in the darkness), I love the textures and hues in the bones---these are not monolithic bones---and, while this has emergent sections, it also whispers, like an apparition from another age. Sharp and soft, it's beautiful. You did beautifully with this series. I'm tempted to draw the 'complete' mammoth as an idiotic creature waving and smiling dumbly, maybe smoking a cigar, just to break the spell here. Don't worry, I won't. This is prime tara photography.

Way cool! Great shot.. I tried to get much the same at the famous Natural History Museum, London...but have to report its now covered in plastic and 'kid friendly'.. I could not even find the dinosaurs!! I gather they even removing the famous Dinosaurs in the entrance hall, its not 'relevant??!!?? Well taken Rob