A Lithuanian wildlife photographer Eugenijus Kavaliauskas captured a close-up image of an ant's face and presented the entry in the 2022 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition that showcases the art of microscopic photography, prompting people to capture details not seen by the human eye.
The photographer had shared something that people had never seen, a magnified snapshot of an ant and netizens think that it was straight out of a horror movie. He said that he lives near a forest which made it easy for him to spot an ant. But it is very boring to take a photo of just an ant, running on the ground, so he decided to take an extremely magnified image. He also added that he is always looking for details, shadows and unseen corners. While a lot of people were horrified by this photograph, the photographer added that there are no horrors in nature and he was blessed to see God's creation so closely.
The face of an ant is nowhere close to what most people might have imagined. The ant literally looks like a monster from a Hollywood movie. But the picture isn’t showing some CGI or a dummy prepared for a horror movie, but an actual ant. The ant’s face includes terrifying features, like beady eyes and an orc-like jaw. The post received a wide range of reactions with some saying, "Gonna think a thousand times before stepping on an ant again."
The photographer said that when he first began with microphotography, he also thought that all beetles looked a little like monsters. He further added that now, he has gotten used to it and is not surprised that there are so many beautiful, interesting, and unknown miracles under our feet.
While the photograph triggered much online chatter and people gave a lot of views and opinions about the photograph and were left speechless, the competition was won by Grigorii Timin for the image of an embryonic hand of a Madagascar giant day gecko. The image of a gecko was created by merging hundreds of images together using a method called image stitching.
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