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Lithuanian photographer takes a close-up picture of an ant; Internet creeps out

Web DeskOctober 22, 2022207 comments

Web Desk (LTN NEWS): Some of us may have seen that when you magnify almost anything, living or not, you get results you didn’t expect. But a very close-up picture of a simple ant now gives some people nightmares. Now, a photographer has shared a zoomed-in picture of an ant that has never been seen before. Internet users think it looks like something from a horror movie.

Eugenijus Kavaliauskas, a Lithuanian wildlife photographer, took the picture and sent it to the 2022 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition. This competition shows off the art of microscopic photography and encourages people to take pictures of details that the human eye can’t see.

Kavaliauskas told Insider that he lives near a forest, which made it easy for him to see an ant. But a picture of an ant running around on the ground is boring. I always look for small details, shadows, and corners people don’t see.

“The main point of taking pictures is to find new things,” Kavaliauskas said.

“I am amazed by God’s works of art and the chance to see how he made things.” he said

There were no horrors in nature when he talked about how the ant looked under the microscope.

Some users were shocked when they saw the picture.

“Ant-Man” should have been a horror movie, said one user.

“Thank you for ruining ants,” wrote someone else.

A third person said, “Now picture a million of these coming at you at once.”

The competition was won by Grigorii Timin, who took a picture of an embryonic hand of a Madagascar giant day gecko. The photo got a lot of attention online. A method called “image-stitching” was used to make the picture of a gecko by putting together hundreds of pictures.

Timin was quoted on Nikon’s website as saying, “This embryonic hand is about 3 mm (0.12 in) long, which is a huge sample for high-resolution microscopy.”

“It took more than two days to get about 200 GB of data. The scan is made up of 300 tiles, and each tile has about 250 optical sections,” he said.

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