It always saddens me to see dead Monarch butterflies on the road, after they've flown all the way up here from Mexico to lay their eggs on milkweed plants. Then, spent, they just drop from the sky.
I picked up an alreday dead, intact, fallen Monarch and brought it home, planning to get my camera, but got sidetracked. By the time I came back out, the wind had blown the butterfly from where I had left it and a happy procession of ants was dismembering it! This wing was all that was left.
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I liked this alot when voting - a very appropriate entry for the challenge, and a gently touching photograph as well. Well done on light, composition, color, setting. A very effective photograph.
There is something desperately sad, but also strangely comforting in the scene that you have capture - and captured well. It reminds me of the frailty of life, of how tenuous our grasp on it is, but also that that is the natural order of things,m and that life goes on. A sympathetic photograph, with impact.
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