Ant face

Hello, photomicrography. Yep, the art of taking photographs of microscopic objects, with help from a microscope. Pure nightmare fuel. In the 2022 Nikon Small ...

[Duong Thinh / Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/iPtn1EM7jmg) and [Eugenijus Kavaliauskas / Nikon Small World](https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2022-photomicrography-competition/ant-camponotus). Here's why.](/life/21087/touching-this-little-birds-feathers-will-make-your-skin-burn-heres-why) [Alison Pollack / Nikon Small World](https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2022-photomicrography-competition/slime-mold-lamproderma) [Andrew Posselt / Nikon Small World](https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2022-photomicrography-competition/long-bodied-cellar-daddy-long-legs-spider) [Satu Paavonsalo / Nikon Small World](https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2022-photomicrography-competition/blood-vessel-networks-in-the-intestine-of-an-adult-mouse) IMAGE: [click here](https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2022-photomicrography-competition). [Caleb Dawson / Nikon Small World](https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2022-photomicrography-competition/breast-tissue-showing-contractile-myoepithelial-cells-wrapped-around-milk-producing-alveoli) The result is guaranteed to fuel your nightmares for all of eternity: [Grigorii Timin / Nikon Small World](https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2022-photomicrography-competition/embryonic-hand-of-a-madagascar-giant-day-gecko) [Eugenijus Kavaliauskas / Nikon Small World](https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2022-photomicrography-competition/ant-camponotus) But what if there was a way to get even closer?

No, this photograph isn't from a horror movie, nor is it some artistic rendering of an alien, nor is it an orc. The viral photograph below is a real life ...

2022. The ant in question belongs to the genus Camponotus or “carpenter ant.” You can see more of Kavaliauskas’ photographs [here](http://www.dantis.net/x3/portfolio/), where he has taken more close-ups of insects and other creatures.

'There are no horrors in nature,' photographer Eugenijus Kavaliauskas says.

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Instead of being something out of the fantasy of Guillermo Del Toro, John Carpenter or even R.L. Stein, the photo is that of an ant, magnified several times.

The toes were magnified 63 times and show the bones, tendons, skin and even nerves, [Nikon’s Small World](https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/) photo contest is giving us an up-close view of a demon just in time for Halloween. Stein, the photo is that of an ant, magnified several times.

A finalist in the 2022 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition captured an image that sheds light on something we're not used to seeing.

Life is filled with beauty and wonder. · Taken by wildlife photographer Eugenijus Kavaliauskas, this close-up ant shot has been gaining quite a bit of attention ...

The image you see is actually a part of an ant's face. The amount of details on some of these creatures are just mesmerising. Showing tendons, bones, nerves, and skin, this image was said to have been magnified 63 times. [Nikon's Photomicrography Competition](https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/) has been celebrating life and beauty through a microscope. The winner of the Nikon Small World competition this year went to a photo of an embryonic hand of a Madagascar gecko If you want to see more, here's a slightly zoomed out image of an ant's eyes in frame:

A Lithuanian photographer took home a prize in a Nikon photography competition for his remarkable shot of an ant's face.

That's the very real face of an ant. [trending news](https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat) The picture of the ant's face, magnified five times under a microscope, won one Nikon item valued at $35. Now you have to think about that all night," wrote one user while sharing the close-up picture of the ant. The image attracted some attention on social media as well, with one user even calling it "horrifying". Wildlife photographer Eugenijus Kavaliauskas presented his highly magnified ant photo at the 2022 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition, which celebrates the art of microscope photography and allows people to capture details the human eye cannot see.

Kavaliauskas entered the 2022 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition with an image of an ant that had been magnified five times. The image does not ...

The Nikon contest honours the craft of microscope photography. The ant also hascrimson eyes and what appear to be golden fangs. Kavaliauskas entered the 2022 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition with an image of an ant that had been magnified five times.

The ant's face, magnified five times under a microscope, was submitted to the 2022 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition by Eugenijus Kavaliauskas, a ...

According to Nikon, the photomicrography contest is open to anyone who loves microscopy and photography. [Insider](https://www.insider.com/ant-face-close-up-horror-movie-photo-2022-10) about his photo, Kavaliauskas said he lives near a forest, making it easy for him to capture an ant. [Sign up](https://www.independent.co.uk/newsletters?itm_channel=native&itm_campaign=footer&itm_audience=prospecting&itm_content=newsletters)to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter [went to ](https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2022-photomicrography-competition/embryonic-hand-of-a-madagascar-giant-day-gecko)Grigorii Timin and Michel Milinkovitch of the University of Geneva's department of genetics and evolution. He also shared that he took a picture of the ant under a microscope to see the "unseen corners." ](https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2022-photomicrography-competition)

Eugenijus Kavaliauskas took this incredible, yet terrifying macro photo of an ant that looks like it's straight out of a horror film.

After that, I process the image to bring out some of the colors and make the image sharper.” “This is because the part that is in focus is like a thin slice. They are actually the base of the antennas.

A photo competition organised by optics and imaging giant Nikon has returned some fascinating results.

Nikon Small World Competition was launched in 1975 to acknowledge photography done through the light microscope. The photo was one of the many striking images from Nikon's 2022 Photomicrography Competition. This shot by photographer Eugenijus Kavaliauskas was magnified five times under a microscope. "Nikon's 2022 Photomicrography Competition yielded some pretty phenomenal shots but this one stood out for obvious reasons," a third user said. " It’s a magnified view of an ant's face which was honored as an image of distinction in Nikon's 2022 Small World photo contest.

Lithuania-based photographer Eugenijus Kavaliauskas has recetly won a prize in Nikon photography contest for his stunning portrait of an ant's face.

Last week, the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition 2022 winners were announced. They included stunning photos of an embryonic Madagascar giant ...

As impressive as the image is, it turns out that ants look a little bit terrifying when you get up close. The actual eyes are further back on the insect's head, and they look far cuter when you see the overall face. Nevertheless, the consensus seems to be that ants are a little bit terrifying up close, and thank the lord that they're teeny tiny.