Eye to Eye with an Otter

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I came upon a pair of river otters agreed to coexist with me for a while. They DID look at me a lot but didn’t bolt. It was a kinda busy environment they were in. I liked this capture the best of the ones I got.

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Too busy? Cropping okay?

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Z9, 180-600 lens, hand held, 1/3200th, f 9, 1260mm, ISO 2000, cropped to 2327 x 1720.

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This is a nice portrait of this otter Dave. I like the straight on look it’s giving you. Nice detail in the mustache and whiskers. The water plants do a nice job of framing the otter too.

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Not too busy for me, Dave - rather a typical otter river habitat as it fishes around the plants. A lovely sharp catch of face and weed-flecked whiskers. I’d be tempted to brighten (and possibly enlarge) the catchlight in its right eye, but perhaps I should resist such temptations.