On the grounds at the Museum of Nature are two sets of statues, one on each end of the lawn, both life sized. I wanted shots of them in winter. The first are a mother and baby pair of dinosaurs, bearing the scientific name chasmosaurus irvinensis.
Over on the west side are a trio of woolly mammoths.
At least the mammoths seem to belong in snow.
I love these sculptures. Beautifully photographed William!
ReplyDeleteWonderful sculptures and photos!
ReplyDeleteWhat a blue sky you have there with all that snow. And those mammoths look quite realistic !
ReplyDeleteYes, they look very much at home there in Canada. :-)
ReplyDeleteI love these! Jurassic Canada!
ReplyDeleteMy inner-childhood-paleontologist loves this! Awesome pics :)
ReplyDeleteHow cool to see them romping in the snow.
ReplyDeleteThese are fantastic! Folks have found some Wooly Mammoths in the Ocala area. One near the Silver River.
ReplyDeleteRe your comment on Ocala: A very pithy saying about a very pissy saying! Merci!
I am so happy you have the Photo Blog .. I love everything you share (when I find the time to come visiting that is). I hope some day I can visit Ottawa, as I have never been.
ReplyDeleteThese are great!
ReplyDeletepretty neat displays in the snowy landscape. :)
ReplyDeleteOddly enough, I did not actually know what a woolly mammoth looked like!
ReplyDeleteThe mammoths fit right in.
ReplyDelete@Denise: thanks!
ReplyDelete@Elaine: thank you!
@Stuart: we're lucky to get blue sky days in the winter.
@Revrunner: the mammoths would have enjoyed a polar vortex kind of winter.
@Norma: Jurassic Canada indeed!
@OE: thank you!
@EG: it's a good setting for them!
@Lowell: just as long as they don't try to clone them. That doesn't end well.
ReplyDelete@Cindy: thank you!
@Luis: I'll have to photograph them in the summer.
@Tex: one wonders what the dinosaurs would have made of it.
@Hamilton: I knew, but paleontology fascinated me as a kid, so that's to be expected.
@Sharon: they've made themselves at home.
The woolly mammoths were meant to be in that type of weather. Great photos.
ReplyDeleteThose are so cool! The woolly mammoths look perfect in the snow.
ReplyDeleteVery cool and yes the Mammoths seem to belong. I picture Dinosaurs in big leafy swampy areas. MB
ReplyDeleteFrozen Jurassic Park!:-) Really cool!
ReplyDeleteLove the surprise element in these pictures!
ReplyDeleteYour header reminds me of Brueghel paintings.
Back to the ice age in global warming times...
ReplyDeleteInteresting to see them in the snow - another ice age perhaps!
ReplyDeleteInteresting. I never think of dinosaurs and snow. But the mastodons do seem more natural there. Why?
ReplyDeleteThey would be worth a view, especially with the snow cover.
ReplyDeleteI love these. I agree with your assessment that the mammoth appear to be in there natural habitat.
ReplyDelete@Mari: thanks!
ReplyDelete@Krisztina: thank you!
@MB: same here! Hard to think there were once parts of my country that qualified for good dinosaur habitat.
@Jose: just as long as the dinosaurs don't start eating the visitors!
@Merisi: I'll have to look up those paintings!
@Ciel: quite a contrast, huh?
@RedPat: this winter has felt like it!
@Jack: they're furry!
@Birdman: I'll be photographing these again in other seasons.
@Barbara: thanks!
This is very cool!
ReplyDeleteNot good weather for dinosaurs! Okay for mammoths though.
ReplyDeleteThe mammoths do look real!
ReplyDeleteMy sister Sandra Taylor made these sculptures when she worked at the museum. I am so proud of her!
ReplyDelete@Linda: thank you!
ReplyDelete@Linda: they can make do nicely.
@Cheryl: they definitely do.
@Kristina: thank you for letting me know!