Dr. Eugenijus Kavaliauskas won an "Image of Distinction" prize for his close-up image of an ant's face. That's not one of Tolkien's orcs straight out of Middle Earth — it's just what ants look like when you get up close and personal with them. The snapshot of a subterranean insect's face, amplified multiple times under a magnifying lens, was submitted to the 2022 Nikon Little World Photomicrography Rivalry by Lithuanian natural life photographic artist Eugenijus Kavaliauskas. The opposition praises the specialty of magnifying lens photography, which permits individuals to catch subtleties the natural eye can't see.
Eugenijus Kavaliauskas won a prize at a Nikon competition for his photo of an ant. The magnified photo shows the details of the ant's face, from beady eyes to an orc-like jaw. The competition's top prize in the competition went to a magnified photo of a Madagascar gecko's hand.
Kavaliauskas' submission was one of the 57 selected "Images of Distinction." "When I first started with microphotography, I, too, thought all beetles looked a little like monsters," he said. "But now, I've gotten used to it, and am surprised that there are so many interesting, beautiful, and unknown miracles under our feet."
A 69-times zoomed-in image of the hand of a Madagascar giant day gecko, taken by two researchers from the University of Geneva.
"This particular image is beautiful and informative, as an overview and also when you magnify it in a certain region, shedding light on how the structures are organized on a cellular level,"
