{"id":725,"date":"2021-12-12T00:28:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T00:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jingminzhou.com\/?p=725"},"modified":"2021-12-12T00:29:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T00:29:04","slug":"dual-milkweed-trees-santa-cruz-island-channel-islands-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jingminzhou.com\/?p=725","title":{"rendered":"Dual Milkweed Trees, Santa Cruz Island, Channel Islands National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Santa Cruz island features many milkweed trees, a specific plant that provide food source for larva of the famous migrating monarch butterfly. We didn&#8217;t find any monarch butterfly on those trees on the island. Nevertheless, the trees were a wonderful subject to photograph on black and white film, just like oak trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These two milkweed trees were at the edge of a campground on the island. When passing by them, we were attracted by the shape of the trees with their far-reaching branches and bare barks. We set up our Intrepid 4&#215;5 large format camera, and captured this photo on a sheet of Fomapan 400 film. We positioned the tree in the front and let it play a dominant role in the frame. The tree in the back, while smaller, provides a sense of depth and balances the weight in the frame. At a small aperture of f\/32, both trees retain the sharpness we wanted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51740204978_463d5c9870_o.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Cruz island features many milkweed trees, a specific plant that provide food source for larva of the famous migrating monarch butterfly. We didn&#8217;t find any monarch butterfly on those trees on the island. Nevertheless, the trees were a wonderful subject to photograph on black and white film, just like oak trees. These two milkweed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jingminzhou.com\/?p=725\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dual Milkweed Trees, Santa Cruz Island, Channel Islands National Park&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,6,25,12,2],"tags":[42,41,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jingminzhou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jingminzhou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jingminzhou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jingminzhou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jingminzhou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jingminzhou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":727,"href":"https:\/\/www.jingminzhou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions\/727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jingminzhou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jingminzhou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jingminzhou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}