Monument View Acrylic Print

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This image was captured as I hiked the volcanic West rim of the Rio Grande Gorge of New Mexico during a Winter snow storm. This area was declared a national monument by President Obama and includes 242, 555 acres. The Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, signed into existence in March 2013, is one of the nation's most recent and biggest national monuments. That declaration protects the arid high-mountain Taos Plateau from any development, no fracking, no drilling, no mining, no suburbs, no wind farms, no new roadsand ensures that rain and wind will be the primary factors shaping this region for centuries to come.

I am a New Mexico based Adventure Riding/Rafting/SCUBA Outdoor Digital Photographer, always on the qui vive for what Nature and humans provide. Capturing an image in my camera is but the first step in an artistic process. That initial bit of information then can pass through countless permutations before being declared complete. The journey from capture to completion is a lawless territory. If photography is an art, then there are no rules.