Ant face close up

2022 - 10 - 21

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Ultra-close-up photograph of ant's face will haunt your nightmares (The indy100)

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)

Terrifying close up of ant's face wins photography distinction (Moneycontrol.com)

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.

Close-up of ant's face appears to be taken from horror movie. See ... (Economic Times)

The astounding and horrifying macro photograph of an ant that seems like it came straight out of a horror movie was taken by Eugenijus Kavaliauskas.

He claimed that the lack of eyes gives a more menacing appearance. The views expressed here are that of the respective authors/ entities and do not represent the views of Economic Times (ET). In reality, he said, this is done by omitting the eyes and mandibles, which is not how somebody trying to identify the ant would take a picture of it. It is so that the area in focus can be seen as a thin slice. The eerie image resembles a face. It serves as the antenna's foundation.

Story behind the terrifying viral close-up of ant's face (Daily Times)

What looks like an image straight out of a nightmare or a blockbuster horror movie at the first glance is actually the close-up image of an ant taken by ...

Timin combined technology and art to capture the Phelsuma grandis day gecko. Dr Kavaliauskas said that he was fascinated by “God’s masterpieces”, adding that the ant looked horrifying but there were “no horrors in nature”. The image was a part of Nikon’s Small World Photomicrography Competition and got selected as one of the 57 “Images of Distinction”.

This horrific close-up of an ant's face is freaking people out | Boing ... (Boing Boing)

Nikon announced the winners of its 2022 Photomicrography Competition and the selections deliver a glorious view of the small scale weirdness of our world at ...

But the creepy crowd favorite making the rounds online is the terrifying portrait above of an Eugenijus Kavaliauskas](http://www.dantis.net/x3/). Michel Milinkovitch of the University of Geneva.

'Horror': Lithuanian photographer captures an ant really up close ... (The Indian Express)

The picture captured by wildlife photographer Eugenijus Kavaliauskas was submitted for the 2022 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition that ...

Now I’m terrified.” A third user commented, “Now imagine a million of these rushing you.” The main goal of photography is to be a discoverer,” Kavaliauskas explained. A photographer has now shared a never-before-seen magnified snapshot of an [ant](https://indianexpress.com/article/trending/trending-in-india/ants-carry-gold-chain-ifs-officer-asks-a-question-8001435/) and netizens think it’s straight out of a horror movie.

Ultra close-up photo of ant's face that won Nikon competition will ... (Times Now)

A photo of an ant's face maginified five times under a microscope has won a Nikon photography competition. The photo was captured by Lithuanian wildlife ...

[Nikon](/topic/nikon)photography competition for his picture of an ant's face. A photo of an ant's face maginified five times under a microscope has won a Nikon photography competition. He caught an ant and put it under a microscope to click the picture.