Ants
My Father-in-law, Birk Petersen, has been taking modeling photographs for years.
Not that kind of modeling. This kind of modeling. (Though he has been known to call his models “cute little darlings”.)
When I told him about my bug photography, he rushed out and took a picture of some ants. Not this picture. The picture was badly blurred, and we ended up having several discussions about optics and CCD sensors and the latest camera technology. He finally broke down and bought a new camera, a Canon PowerShot A560. One of the first things he did with it was snap this photo. As you can see, it gives terrific results.
This is a classic Myrmica ant swarm, the kind that can be found on any sidewalk in June in Utah, just walk along looking at the edge where the lawns meet the cement. You can’t miss them. I still don’t know what the ants are doing. Moving? Attacking? Mating? Wild frat¹ parties?
¹ Again, technically, sorority parties. We’ve been over this.
Slowly getting the site back onto an even keel. It's nice to get back into the old posting rhythm.
JFargo said,
July 27, 2008 @ 8:07 am
That’s one crazy party. I’m kind of insulted that they didn’t invite me. I mean, it looks like they invited just about everyone else!