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This image was captured while rafting the Taos Box section of the Rio Grande, New Mexico, within the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument. This family of five was such a pleasure to watch as they marked their territory, rolled in the sand, loped over the boulders and swam among the rocks of the river. Otters (Lutra canadensis) are built for swimming – having a streamlined body, short legs with webbed feet, dense fur to keep them warm, a tapered tail, small ears, and nostrils that can close underwater. Between 2008 and 2010, 33 were released in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument. Captured in the estuaries of the Pacific Northwest, they were party animals and as a result labeled “problem otters”, for rudely leaving shells and scat on local boats and boat docks. However, we don’t mind these “party animals’ one bit.

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.