Terrifying photo taken with modern technology incredible ant face

 

Terrifying photo taken with modern technology incredible ant face

At first glance, this picture can be assumed to be taken from a scene from a horror movie. But according to the description published by the British newspaper "Daily Mail", it is a real and realistic picture, and only that it is a close-up of an organism that lives everywhere around us. Maybe in our homes. In or out of our workplaces. It's an ant's face!

 Lithuanian photographer Dr Eugenius Kavaliauskas captured snapshots of a five-fold magnified ant under a microscope, revealing its red eyes and mysterious face in extraordinary detail.

This photo was selected as one of 57 remaining shots in the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Contest. Photographer Gregory Temman won first prize in the competition for his stunning daytime portrait of an embryonic hand of a Madagascar gecko.

 The Nikon competition opens the way for creativity to combine art and science. This year's competition featured outstanding images from scientists, artists and photographers of all levels and backgrounds from around the world.

 Fascinated by the Creator's masterpieces

 Dr Kavaliauskas told how he took the astonishing photo of an ant in a forest near his home in Lithuania. I'm always looking for "details, shadows and unseen angles," he said, because I see the main purpose of photography as an explorer. He further said that by doing this I am being fascinated by the masterpieces of the creator.

Mysterious miracles beneath our feet

 Although the ant can look quite scary, Kavaliauskas insists that "there is no terror in nature". "When I first started "microphotography," I thought that all colors looked somewhat like monsters," he said. But now it has become normal, but is it really surprising that there are so many interesting, beautiful and unknown miracles under our feet.

 General techniques

 Eric Flaim, director of communications and CRM at Nikon, said that each year the competition features a set of microscopic images that showcase exemplary scientific and artistic technology. "This year was not unusual," he said.

 First-place photographer Timman used high-resolution microscopy and imaging to capture this giant gecko, expertly combining imaging technology and artistic creativity.

 This embryonic hand is about 3 mm long, a large specimen for high-resolution microscopy. The scan consists of 300 slices, each with about 250 optical sections, taking two days and 200 gigabytes of data to complete, Temin explained.