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Little Dreamer gets bonus points
Photography is the art of observation. It has little to to with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. Elliott Erwitt
Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Zuiko 14-150 mm zoom, Zuiko 2.8 60mm macro, Sigma 2.8 Fish Eye. Nikon D5100Spectacular images you’ve taken here folks, I love the macro stuff.
Here are a few from my Hydrangea bushes this morning…
Tim
"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt" William Shakespeare
Photo site - http://donlwilliamsphotography.com
"A moment in time
Immortalized forever
With silver and light"Don, those ants look similar to our meat ants. Probably smaller though?
This is an ant not to be trifled with. Apart from being up there on the most painful list, some species of the ancient genus Myrmercia have been known to kill. Bullant or Bull-an, Bulldog-ant.
It is one ant which can be observed fighting itself to death:
The bull ant famously appears in the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer’s major work, The World as Will and Representation, as a paradigmatic example of strife and constant destruction endemic to the “will to live”.“But the bulldog-ant of Australia affords us the most extraordinary example of this kind; for if it is cut in two, a battle begins between the head and the tail. The head seizes the tail in its teeth, and the tail defends itself bravely by stinging the head: the battle may last for half an hour, until they die or are dragged away by other ants. This contest takes place every time the experiment is tried.”
No. I didn’t cut the ant. It must have ben damaged some other way but I found it attempting to sting itself.
I’ve been stung twice in my life and both times took 28 days to heal. Photography is the art of observation. It has little to to with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. Elliott Erwitt
Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Zuiko 14-150 mm zoom, Zuiko 2.8 60mm macro, Sigma 2.8 Fish Eye. Nikon D5100
Photography is the art of observation. It has little to to with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. Elliott Erwitt
Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Zuiko 14-150 mm zoom, Zuiko 2.8 60mm macro, Sigma 2.8 Fish Eye. Nikon D5100The flies be busy.
Awesome ant shots. :thumbsup:Apart from TFF, let us not only concentrate on the ants but perhaps that they need to find food sources.
I’m going to stop talking about ants though I am always interested.
I can’t actually do that without at least showing an attempt to catch the magnificence of one of the most painful ants in Australia to be unforunate enough to get only one ant entrapped against your skin.
Though I survived more than fifty caught on the chin strap of my hat while riding a tractor under trees.
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