by AMANDA KOOSER
And the Nikon Small World Photo Contest didn’t even name the image one of its top winners.
There’s so much more to the world than what we can see with the naked eye, so sometimes we need help dialing into the details. That’s what Nikon’s Small World Photomicrography Competition is all about. Nikon announced the winners earlier this month, but I’m going to start off by highlighting one of the runners-up, a highly, highly magnified image of an ant.
The ant photo is from wildlife photographer Eugenijus Kavaliauskas, who has a glorious portfolio you could lose yourself in for hours. The image has attracted some attention on social media, perhaps due to a combination of its haunting nature and the proximity of Halloween. It looks like something that crawled out of an orc pit in Middle-earth.
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