{"id":4906,"date":"2015-11-11T04:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/?p=4906"},"modified":"2023-04-06T15:36:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T20:36:50","slug":"monarch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/monarch\/","title":{"rendered":"Monarch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every wildlife photographer needs a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monarch_butterfly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monarch Butterfly<\/a>\u00a0(Danaus plexippus) image in their portfolio. \u00a0I was thinking the other day that I did not have one in my collection. So, I did a search within my Lightroom catalog and this image came up! I had forgotten all about the Monarch Butterflies that gathered in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairchildgarden.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fairchild Botanical Garden<\/a> when I visited there in February of this year. This is the same place where I captured the <a href=\"http:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/egret-at-the-fairchild-botanical-garden\/\">Egret<\/a> that was part of my blog\u00a0earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Monarch Butterfly is probably the most familiar North American butterfly and is considered an iconic pollinator species. They are also famous for their long migrations. Only Monarchs born in late summer or early fall make the migration, and they make only one round trip. By the time next year&#8217;s winter migration begins, several summer generations will have lived and died and it will be last year&#8217;s migrators&#8217; great-grandchildren that make the trip. Yet somehow these new generations know the way, and follow the same routes their ancestors took\u2014sometimes even returning to the same tree. Truly amazing!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4898\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4898\" style=\"width: 1500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/03272015-Fairchild-Botanical-Garden-205.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4898\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/monarch\/attachment\/4898\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/03272015-Fairchild-Botanical-Garden-205.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1500,1000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Terry B. Kahler&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;ILCE-7M2&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Monarch&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1427454273&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Terry B. Kahler&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Monarch&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;exposure_bias&quot;:&quot;0\/10&quot;,&quot;flash&quot;:&quot;16&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Monarch\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Monarch&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/03272015-Fairchild-Botanical-Garden-205-750x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/03272015-Fairchild-Botanical-Garden-205-1500x1000.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4898\" src=\"http:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/03272015-Fairchild-Botanical-Garden-205.jpg\" alt=\"Monarch\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/03272015-Fairchild-Botanical-Garden-205.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/03272015-Fairchild-Botanical-Garden-205-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/03272015-Fairchild-Botanical-Garden-205-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4898\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monarch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This image was taken with my <a href=\"http:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/glossary\/sony-a7-ii-dslr\/\">Sony A7 II DSLR<\/a> using my <a href=\"http:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/glossary\/canon-ef-100mm-macro\/\">Canon 100mm f\/2.8 Macro Lens<\/a>. I used a Metabones IV adapter to enable the use of Canon lenses on a Sony camera. The camera was set on <a href=\"http:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/glossary\/aperture-priority\/\">Aperture priority<\/a> mode with the aperture set at f\/5.6, shutter speed at 1\/320th of a second and the ISO set at 100.<\/p>\n<p>Please use the section below to post your comments, questions or suggestions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/T-Kahler-Logo-White-No-C-Mini-e1438517270490.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1996\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/spider-spider-on-the-flower\/t-kahler-logo-white-no-c-mini\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/T-Kahler-Logo-White-No-C-Mini-e1490323340853.png\" data-orig-size=\"177,49\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"T Kahler Signature\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/T-Kahler-Logo-White-No-C-Mini-e1490323340853.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/T-Kahler-Logo-White-No-C-Mini-e1490323340853.png\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1996 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/T-Kahler-Logo-White-No-C-Mini-e1438517270490.png\" alt=\"T Kahler Signature\" width=\"177\" height=\"49\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u00a9 2015 T. 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