Ants in your pants

lostprophet · May 10, 2006

taken yesterday at London Zoo

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Leaf Cutter Ant

hand held at ISO 800 from memory with a 90mm macro lens

JTHphoto · May 10, 2006

is he carrying that big stick? wow. nice shot... 800 has resulted in a little noise... i wonder if neatimage could clear it up some?

macawlvr · May 10, 2006

cool closeup...if I got down that close to our ants i would be stung..and fireants hurt like heck...

lostprophet · May 11, 2006

macawlvr said:
cool closeup...if I got down that close to our ants i would be stung..and fireants hurt like heck...

The bite I got from one of those Leaf cutter ants stang!!

LaFoto · May 11, 2006

But if you ask me (or Raymond, who does everything, including stripping all his below to wade through creeks and such, in order to get the desired photo), this one was very worth getting stung by an ant! Very good! I like it all around. (And those leaf-cutter ants are amazing, aren't they?)