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Cathie Rowand - The Journal Gazette
Maddi Wells and Nathan Maxwell, both 9, look at a monarch caterpillar they found while helping out with the Monarch Butterfly Family Count at Metea County Park. Out of 50 milkweed plants checked, one butterfly, one egg, and five caterpillars were found. One of the caterpillars that was in the 4th instar stage was taken back to the Nature Center where it will soon go become a chrysalis.
Published: August 17, 2010 3:00 a.m.

Monarch Family Count

Cathie Rowand and Lara Neel
Cathie Rowand - The Journal Gazette
Monarch caterpillar at Metea County Park.

Camera: NIKON D2Hs

Shutter: 1/250 s

Aperture: f/8.5

Exposure Setting: Shutter Priority

ISO: 400

Strobe Flash: Flash Did Fire

Lens Focal Length: 25 mm

White Balance: Auto

Shooter's Comments: Today's assignment allowed me to be outside on a beautiful day and learn something about nature. I covered the Metea County Park Monarch Butterfly Family Count. We found one egg and five caterpillars on the fifty milkweed plants we checked. Nature isn't always that dependable. Often you go out looking for something in particular and don't see it. Today was different. The only difficulty I had was showing the caterpillar and children searching the plants in one shot.

With the the children looking at one of the caterpillars they were able to take back to the nature center because it was getting close to the chrysalis stage, I used fill flash since they had the sun behind them. The close-up of the caterpillar was shot with the macro mode on my Olympus E-Pl1.

-- Cathie Rowand, photojournalist

Editor's Note: Sometimes you have an idea for a photo, and it doesn't pan out. Cathie came back, not just with one great image, but enough for a photo gallery. The photos are all filled with emotion and beauty.

-- Lara Neel, visual editor

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