No, this photo does not depict one of the new creatures from HBO’s “House of the Dragon” or an out of a horror movie. It’s an award-winning close-up photo of… an ant.
The eye-popping photo is one of 57 Distinguishing Images in Nikon’s Small World Photomicrograph Contest. The terrifying portrait was captured by Eugenijus Kavaliauskas, a Lithuanian photographer.
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This is the 48th year of the competition, which seeks to “recognize excellence in photography through the microscope,” according to a press release shared with CNN.
The 2022 contest received nearly 1,300 entries from 72 countries, according to Nikon.
Kavaliauskas previously worked as a bird photographer before turning to insects, according to his website. He used reflected light to capture the shocking close-up of the ant, complete with dark red eyes and what appears to be an angry expression.
Although the image was well received on the internet, Kavaliauskas did not receive the top prize in the competition. That honor went to Swedish photographers Grigorii Timin and Michel Milinkovich, who produced a beautiful fluorescent image of the foreleg of a giant Madagascar gecko embryo. They used 63x magnification to document the small veins and bones in the hand.
Source: CNN Brasil
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