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Monarch’s Reward

March 2, 2015 by Dale 7 Comments

Monarch_RewardFew if any other creatures have to work as hard as they do for their reward than the ephemeral monarch whose journey will take it from toe to tip of this continent in search of milkweed. While milkweed is the monarch’s reward for its thousands of kilometer long flights, milkweed is also disappearing as part of the unintended consequence of agricultural behemoth Monsanto (who also gave us Agent Orange) and its destructive push of herbicides (i.e. Roundup) and herbicide-resistant seeds (i.e. Roundup Ready) … and with it, the monarch is also on a very steep decline. All this makes spying a dancing monarch all the more rewarding on the afternoon of a long hike.

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See more of others’ submissions to the Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge on “Reward.”

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  1. Ben Rowe Aperturef64 says

    March 4, 2015 at 6:16 am

    Beautiful butterfly, it is always rewarding find insects that survive our human intervention.

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    • Dale says

      March 4, 2015 at 9:27 am

      Thanks Ben. That’s really nice to hear. I couldn’t agree more — nature is powerful yet so incredibly fragile beneath the feet of humankind.

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  2. jessicainsideout says

    March 3, 2015 at 12:25 pm

    I am not a photographer so I don’t know the effects you may or may not have used, but this beautiful butterfly looks like it is in a painting. Beautiful art, Dale.

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    • Dale says

      March 3, 2015 at 12:40 pm

      Thanks Jessica. No particular “effects” applied to this photo — but there was a bit of fortune and luck involved in capturing this moment because I had just taken a bunch of pictures of a moving water when the monarch showed up and in my hurry to capture it, I forgot to change the shutter speed and aperture back to ‘normal.’ The result was a series of photos that straddled the line between blurred butterflies and a hyper-realism. I guess that was part of the reward. 🙂

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  3. Dale says

    March 2, 2015 at 9:01 pm

    Beautiful picture and such a bummer that yet another species is in danger…

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    • Dale says

      March 2, 2015 at 9:09 pm

      We live in a world filled with beauty and danger alike. Hopefully we can focus on the beauty and chase the danger away ….

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